Survivor star says Bret LaBelle says g out as gay on the show was 'like a huge weight off my shoulrs. I wish I had e out sooner.'
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- SURVIVOR QUARANTE QUTNNAIRE: BRET LABELLE REFLECTS ON G OUT AS GAY ON THE SHOW
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
SURVIVOR QUARANTE QUTNNAIRE: BRET LABELLE REFLECTS ON G OUT AS GAY ON THE SHOW
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Gen X season to rm fellow stmate Zeke Smh, "I will tell you you're not the only gay guy out here. "I had an ternal stggle wh myself wh g out and beg gay for years, " says Bret now.
"I fely loved that they waed to sprg on everyone that I was gay till the end of the season, " Bret says. I had an ternal stggle wh myself wh g out and beg gay for years.
" I fely loved that they waed to sprg on everyone that I was gay till the end of the season. Calron, by the way, works part-time as a bartenr at a gay bar, The Silver Fox, Long Beach, acrdg to the Long Beach Gazette.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
Workg at a gay bar don’t make him gay, of urse, but ’d be tertg if this diverse season had two openly gay male nttants who both left the show whout any mentn of their sexual orientatn, pecially if they had some sort of relatnship durg productn. Speakg of, Brad says he’s “surprised” that the seri didn’t clu nversatns about his sexual orientatn bee “everyone knew” that he is gay. ***Spoilers below***Survivor, the CBS realy TV show which maroons strangers together on a serted island jt to watch them vote each other out one by one, has been a queer show om the very begng — the first player voted out was gay.
The first wner was gay. In s first few seasons (which aired the early 2000s), was evint that stg directors saw LGBTQ+ staways as ltle more than opportuni to produce "button-phg" TV, brgg on one or two (typilly whe) gay men hop of gettg a brawl or, better, an unlikely iendship à la Rudy Boch and Richard Hatch.