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STRICTLY HAS GONE ‘GAY’? WHAT DO PEOPLE THK THEY’VE BEEN WATCHG ALL THE YEARS?
Strictly has featured a female same-sex uple before, boxer Nila Adams and Katya Jon, who peted durg the 18th season 2020, but Whae and Rabe (who both intify as gay) will be the show's first gay male pair.
"Bee I'm dog the first all-male partnership, I genuely did thk that I was gog to receive a fair b of hate bee you do as a gay man, you get a lot of hate.
Their route was spired by their experienc growg up gay, and they dited the dance to those stgglg now. Homophobia is a ser and ntug problem, but was difficult this week not to enjoy aspects of the hoo-ha over Strictly Come Dancg. In what felt like a historil re-enactment of classic 1970s’ curta-twchg, 189 viewers plaed to the BBC about two men partnerg each other on primetime telly, and was hard to know what to lgh at first: the Mary Whehoe tone of the plats, the statement on Instagram by one of the dancers – realisg the full dramatic potential of the moment – that “love knows no boundari”, or the ia that the spectacle of two men dancg uld ever be the gayt thg about Strictly.