Bachelor Paradise's Lance Bass lls for producers to lnch GAY Bachelor season and wants to be hired as host | The US Sun

Contents:

• THE GAYS ARE TAKG OVER “BACHELOR IN PARADISE”
• COLTON UNRWOOD, THE FIRST GAY ‘BACHELOR,’ CONONTS HIS CONTROVERSIAL COMG OUT
• BACHELOR'S COLTON UNRWOOD TO RETURN TO REALY TV AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• FANS WANT A GAY 'BACHELOR' SEASON WH COLTON UNRWOOD, BUT 'S NOT THE RIGHT MOVE. HERE'S WHY
• IS CHRIS CONRAN GAY? BACHELOR PARADISE FANS NFED OVER ‘BROMANCE’
• COLTON UNRWOOD, FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR, OUT AS GAY
• BACHELOR PARADISE’S LANCE BASS LLS FOR PRODUCERS TO LNCH GAY BACHELOR SEASON AND WANTS TO BE HIRED AS HOST

THE GAYS ARE TAKG OVER “BACHELOR IN PARADISE”

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COLTON UNRWOOD, THE FIRST GAY ‘BACHELOR,’ CONONTS HIS CONTROVERSIAL COMG OUT

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BACHELOR'S COLTON UNRWOOD TO RETURN TO REALY TV AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Unfortunately, biphobia and homophobia still exist. 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.

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FANS WANT A GAY 'BACHELOR' SEASON WH COLTON UNRWOOD, BUT 'S NOT THE RIGHT MOVE. HERE'S WHY

Gay men have had two realy datg petns: Bravo's Boy Meets Boy and Logo's Fdg Prce Charmg, both of which only lasted one season. It's worth notg that seri like Love & Hip-Hop or the now-nceled R&B Divas, both of which primarily follow people of lor, feature same-sex relatnships que regularly, as do Catfish, which is not necsarily the most posive associatn, though equently highlights jt how difficult n be for LGBTQ people to make nnectns wh one another person, pecially if they don't live plac wh massive gay populatns and are otherwise further all unrsr the fact that LGBTQ people, who make up 4. Colton Unrwood didn’t plan on ever tellg the world that he was gay.

IS CHRIS CONRAN GAY? BACHELOR PARADISE FANS NFED OVER ‘BROMANCE’

“I’ll jt say , ” Unrwood reveals on a recent afternoon, still adjtg to his new life as an openly gay man. Acrdg to him, last year, while livg Los Angel, he secretly vised a spa known for terg to gay clientele.

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

At one time, g out of the closet was emed a reer killer, but shows like “The Real World, ” “Survivor” and the origal “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, ” now rebooted on Netflix, led to a profound, posive transformatn how gay people are perceived, and helped brg about progrsive chang to LGBTQ civil rights. As new generatns of lennials and Gen Zers have grown up wh LGBTQ iends and role mols, gay Amerins have attaed the right to marry, and queerns has bee more mastream media, as proven shows like HBO’s high school h “Euphoria” and sentially half of the characters the Ryan Murphy universe. A gay “Bachelor, ” though?

His announcement that he was gay cid wh news that he was filmg a Netflix realy show about his new life. And others legimately argued that as a hunky whe gay man, he was benefg om privilege, takg a platform that other members of the queer muny served more than he did.

“If you’re gay, be gay! “I had never seen a football player that had ma to the NFL that had been gay, growg up Catholic.

BACHELOR PARADISE’S LANCE BASS LLS FOR PRODUCERS TO LNCH GAY BACHELOR SEASON AND WANTS TO BE HIRED AS HOST

“I’ve had hundreds of gay Christian men and women who are nfed their walk wh J say, ‘I felt closer to God when I me out. “I never want people to thk that I’m g out to change the narrative, or to bsh over and not take rponsibily for my actns, and now that I have this gay life that I don’t have to addrs my past as a straight man, ” Unrwood says. Cled to ment for this story, or answer qutns about whether there have been discsns about velopg a gay season of “The Bachelor.

Realy TV has the power to change mds, showsg unrreprented muni to sectns of the untry who might not e across gay, bisexual or transgenr people their everyday liv.

The number of high-profile gay love stori at the movi — among them, the Hulu romantic edy “Happit Season” and 2017 Sundance darlg “Call Me by Your Name” — remas small. It’s rare to see a full-fledged gay love story, or hts of gay romance, on a realy TV show. When Lance Bass, who is openly gay, appeared on the program 2008, he was paired wh a female partner.