Netflix’s ‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ Is Nothg but Gay Trash, but It's Also Progrs

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• FALLY, GAYS HAVE THEIR OWN TRASHY, MARRIAGE-DEFILG REALY SHOW
• NETFLIX’S ‘THE ULTIMATUM: QUEER LOVE’ IS NOTHG BUT GAY TRASH, BUT ’S ALSO PROGRS

FALLY, GAYS HAVE THEIR OWN TRASHY, MARRIAGE-DEFILG REALY SHOW

Ten years ago, for gays most parts of the Uned Stat, marriage was more an emotnal and spirual proposn than a legal agreement.

But over the urse of a sgle , the natnal landspe for gay marriage has radilly changed. It is well past time, then, for gays to publicly file the stutn, as the straights have before them, wh a trashy realy show. A few members are practiced therapy-speak, leadg them to soberly analyze fellow participants’ behavr terms of trmas and triggers—a taste of te gay life wh the make-believe settg of the show.

This predictable oute ntraliz what I image would be, om a productn and marketg perspective, the primary sellg pot of a gay romance realy show: the possibily that a participant uld end up wh any of the others. But gay marriage is still so young—I uldn’t shake the feelg that the participants were hung up on the same one-size-fs-all relatnship stcture that has disappoted straight people for generatns, when they uld be tryg somethg new.

NETFLIX’S ‘THE ULTIMATUM: QUEER LOVE’ IS NOTHG BUT GAY TRASH, BUT ’S ALSO PROGRS

Sure, the upl are gay. Bee I knew, mid-way through a week of chattg about the “gay trash” we’d all bee obssed wh, that I had to wre about this show.

And, while I love the stori too, that’s not exactly accurate to the gay experience. That’s bee — spoiler alert — gay people are jt as erratic and turbulent as straight people.