After starrg on The Bachelorette, Bachelor Paradise and The Bachelor, Colton Unrwood is set to star a different kd of realy seri after g out as gay.
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- THE GAYS ARE TAKG OVER “BACHELOR IN PARADISE”
- BACHELOR'S COLTON UNRWOOD TO RETURN TO REALY TV AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
THE GAYS ARE TAKG OVER “BACHELOR IN PARADISE”
Move over, Chris Harrison: The gays are g for your gig! The promise of two charismatic gay hosts herg the horny nttants through their beachsi bchery mak this upg season even more of a mt-watch. Though this news felt like long-awaed jtice for many of , was somewhat sullied by the simultaneo reveal that he would also be receivg a nondisclosure payout om the work somewhere the eight-figure such money is probably nothg when to protectg the legacy of what is easily one of ABC’s most popular and long-nng anchis, do stg to see yet another straight, whe man be reward for his unnscnable at least now we n celebrate the fact that he’ll be replaced by one of the funnit gay Black men the bs and a former boy-banr.
Liftyle reported at the Unrwood beme the first openly gay man Bachelor Natn April C. The outlet reported that the rtrag orr was dropped that later, April 2021, Unrwood me out as gay durg an terview on "Good Morng Ameri.
"This mak him the first former lead to be part of the LGBTQ+ muny, and the first gay man volved wh the May 2023, Unrwood married polil strategist Jordan C. Unfortunately, biphobia and homophobia still exist.
BACHELOR'S COLTON UNRWOOD TO RETURN TO REALY TV AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
In 1996, MTV premiered a gay episo of their h datg show Sgled Out. (MTV)The first gay reprentatn on realy TV stretch back to 1973's PBS doceri An Amerin Fay, which followed the daily liv of an upper-middle class fay Santa Barbara, California, and is monly nsired the first example of the realy TV genre.
While wasn't necsarily part of the plan, some of the seri' biggt moments clud the separatn of the fay via divorce, and one of the sons, Lance, g out as gay. It was important and pletely novel reprentatn for the time perd, and as such, was prented wh the same kd of tn-meets-entertament flavor that LGBTQ and other margalized people have had to balance when appearg years after An Amerin Fay, The Real World explod on MTV screens, creatg the first real visibily and reprentatn of LGBTQ dividuals wh st members like Pedro Zamora, a gay man livg wh HIV/AIDS on the third season San Francis 1994 and Katelynn Canelli, the first transgenr woman to be a hoemate on Season 21 Brooklyn 2009. Rarely were queer people prevly allowed to be shown relatn to themselv and not jt to the greater, straighter often than not, though, the sole LGBTQ Real World st mate would be tokenized as "the gay one" on their rpective season, meang he or she had the burn of not only tg others, but reprentg all queer people — all while their heterosexual unterparts hooked up wh one other.