Former "Bachelor" star Colton Unrwood me out as gay an exclive terview wh Rob Roberts on "Good Morng Ameri."
Contents:
- 'THE BACHELOR' HAS A TROUBLED HISTORY WHEN TO GAY ROMANCE. IT'S NOT ALONE
- IT’S TIME FOR AN ACTUALLY GAY SEASON OF THE BACHELOR ALREADY
- FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR REVEALS HE’S GAY
- GAY 'BACHELOR': A ROSE WH A HOSE
- THERE’S ALREADY BEEN A GAY ‘BACHELOR’-TYPE SHOW, AND IT WAS ESRTED OFF AIR AFTER JT ONE SEASON
- FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
- COLTON UNRWOOD, FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR, OUT AS GAY
'THE BACHELOR' HAS A TROUBLED HISTORY WHEN TO GAY ROMANCE. IT'S NOT ALONE
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. * bachelor gay rtl *
In realy, there’s already been a gay “Bachelor”-type show — “Fdg Prce Charmg.
”Thirteen gay men moved to a mansn to try to w the affectns of a handsome eligible bachelor, terr signer Robert Sepuvelda Jr.
Former ‘NSYNCer Lance Bass played the Chris Harrison-que Read: Billy Eichner to Colton Unrwood 2019: 'Maybe You're the First Gay Bachelor and We Don't Even Know' (Vio)In the end, Sepulveda chose hairstylist Eric Leonardos as his guy. “Fdg Prce Charmg” was not whout ntroversy, though, but not for s gay filmg and jt prr to s premiere, reports emerged that Sepulveda had prevly been a sex worker.
IT’S TIME FOR AN ACTUALLY GAY SEASON OF THE BACHELOR ALREADY
Former “Bachelor” star Colton Unrwood revealed he’s gay an emotnal terview wh Rob RobertsUnrwood, who is also a former pro football playersaid that he was forced to nont his te self durg lockdownQUOTE: “Obvly this year’s been a lot for a lot of people, and ’s probably ma a lot of people look themselv the mirror and figure out who they are and what they’ve been nng om or what they’ve been puttg off their liv. For me, I’ve ran om myself for a long time and I’ve hated myself for a long time, and I’m gay. I me to terms wh that earlier this year and have been procsg .”Roberts asked what gave him the urage to e outUnrwood admted he had reached a dark place personallyand that facg the tth was the only optnUnrwood said he’s received plenty of love and supportom iends and fay after g out * bachelor gay rtl *
” Unrwood has been filmg a realy TV seri for Netflix about his journey g out as a gay origal story There’s Already Been a Gay ‘Bachelor’-Type Show, and It Was Esrted Off Air After Jt One Season At TheWrap. Colton Unrwood beme the first openly gay man Bachelor Natn April 2021. 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. “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. (Na Prommer / EPA-EFE / Rex / Shutterstock)In fact, “The Bachelor” has prevly e unr fire for ments that proment personali om the anchise have ma regardg LGBTQ people and relatnships tryg to protect that 2014, Season 18 “Bachelor” Juan Pablo Galavis was lled out for sayg a potential “Bachelor” stallment built around same-sex romance would not be “a good example for kids” and ed the word "pervert" reference to gay people. In a 2014 terview wh New York Tim Magaze, Harrison si-stepped a qutn about whether there should be a gay “Bachelor” by tryg to make a qutn about bs cisns and parg love to pizzas and hamburgers.
FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR REVEALS HE’S GAY
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But stead of lettg the foc of the show be one man’s search for love, "Boy Meets Boy" clud a twist: some of the nttants were straight 's 2003 gay datg seri "Boy Meets Boy. " (Glenn Campbell / Bravo)The twist was ially a secret to Jam, the lead, as well as the gay nttants, which meant the gimmick was purely for the dience to try to figure out each nttant’s sexual orientatn. Given the homophobic stereotyp that exist around ceful gay men, this cel twist meant creatg a game out of straight men tryg to trick a gay man for a sh prize.
Featurg a gay lead durg the first season ma the show particularly signifint bee there is still a noticeable lack of LGBTQ rom-s durg the holiday TV season. “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. 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?
GAY 'BACHELOR': A ROSE WH A HOSE
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? 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.
THERE’S ALREADY BEEN A GAY ‘BACHELOR’-TYPE SHOW, AND IT WAS ESRTED OFF AIR AFTER JT ONE SEASON
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? Former “Bachelor” star Colton Unrwood revealed he’s gay an emotnal terview wh Rob RobertsUnrwood, who is also a former pro football playersaid that he was forced to nont his te self durg lockdownQUOTE: “Obvly this year’s been a lot for a lot of people, and ’s probably ma a lot of people look themselv the mirror and figure out who they are and what they’ve been nng om or what they’ve been puttg off their liv.
COLTON UNRWOOD, FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR, OUT AS GAY
For me, I’ve ran om myself for a long time and I’ve hated myself for a long time, and I’m gay.