There’s Already Been a Gay ‘Bachelor’-Type Show, and It Was Esrted Off Air After Jt One Season

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Former 'Bachelor' star Colton Unrwood, who picked Cassie Randolph on the show's 23rd season, me out as gay a "Good Morng Ameri" terview.

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IT’S TIME FOR AN ACTUALLY GAY SEASON OF THE BACHELOR ALREADY

The last time the subject of a gay "Bachelor" me up, didn't go well. TV history is ltered wh datg shows that have mishandled LGBTQ inty. * gay bachelor deutschland *

Could there be a gay season of “The Bachelor?”. “Ok let’s see a gay Bachelor season,” wrote one Twter er rponse to the news. “So now, obvly, do a long overdue gay Bachelor season,” posted another.

“Now give the season we serve wh a gay bachelor please,” said @anahigu.

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I see a glimmer of hope for the gay Bachelor season that we all so sperately serve.— Crawford M Horton (@broiledcrawfish) April 14, 2021. To everyone sayg he should get another season and be the first gay bachelor- are you fettg how he treated Cassie??

COLTON UNRWOOD, FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR, OUT AS GAY

But at least one supporter saw the news g — and suggted there’s already been a season of “Gay Bachelor.” In a clip rurfaced Wednday, “Billy on the Street” host Billy Eichner suggted that Unrwood was the first gay Bachelor whout even knowg . “I’m gay, ” he told anchor Rob Roberts, shaken though visibly relieved. I’m hant to ame Unrwood’s g out as some kd of signifint “gay first”, given how such narrativ often end up portrayg LGBTQ+ people as new, as if we haven’t been here the whole time.

“The media that make visible simultaneoly obscure our prence history by ntually amg trans people [and, this stance wh Unrwood, gay people] as new, as a morn, medilized phenomenon only now g to light, ” wrer and artist Man M Page wrote 2017.

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Other nttants have, siar to Unrwood, publicly e out after filmg all that md, feels like would be a real missed opportuny for the Bachelor powers that be to not rest Unrwood for the anchise’s first-ever Actually Gay season wh an Actually Gay would the first gay season of The Bachelor look like?

FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY, CHRIS HARRISON IS 'VERY PROUD' OF HIM

That was one of the first major attempts at givg gay guys the gay versn of The Bachelor so many longed for, though greatly hred self by secretly addg a bunch of straight men to the st whout rmg s starrg bachelor first. Drawg on stereotyp about gay people beg ceptive and untstworthy?

THERE’S ALREADY BEEN A GAY ‘BACHELOR’-TYPE SHOW, AND IT WAS ESRTED OFF AIR AFTER JT ONE SEASON

Though for all the ways that Fdg Prce Charmg provid better reprentatn than s spirual precsor, was also borg – seemgly more ncerned about provg to viewers that gay men’s romantic aspiratns were every b as normal as their straight unterparts than wh pictg gay men on their own The Bachelor portrayed love eply heteropatriarchal terms (multiple women pete for the attentn of a sgle man, lookg for monogamy and, of urse, marriage), Fdg Prce Charmg simply gave the long-nng seri a h at of homosexual pat.

Could the first gay season of The Bachelor offer somethg different om what the aforementned rivativ spired gave years past?

FORMER "BACHELOR" STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

), I’d want s hypothetil first-ever gay season to look somethg like MTV’s sexually fluid 2019 season of Are You the One? I’d love to see a Bachelor season do new thgs like acknowledge the probable sexual tensn between the nttants, and a gay season of The Bachelor seems as well poised as any to explore that terrory.

Somethg tells me that we wouldn’t see that kd of sex-posive change of format on the first gay season of The Bachelor though. ) So, maybe I don’t really want a gay season of The Bachelor after all?

“The Bachelor’s” Colton Unrwood on Wednday revealed that he’s gay an emotnal terview wh Rob Roberts on “Good Morng Ameri. ” Compared wh the anchise’s past handlg of the subject of gay romance, was a major step forward. “And for me, I’ve ran om myself for a long time and I’ve hated myself for a long time, and I’m gay.

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