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• THERE’S ALREADY BEEN A GAY ‘BACHELOR’-TYPE SHOW, AND IT WAS ESRTED OFF AIR AFTER JT ONE SEASON
• COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
• 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
• ‘THE BACHELOR’ HAS A TROUBLED HISTORY WHEN TO GAY ROMANCE. IT’S NOT ALONE
• HOW MANY GUYS ARE GAY ON THE BACHELORETTE? ANDI SPILLS! PL, THERE MIGHT BE A "HARRY" SPOFF (NO, REALLY)
• GAY BACHELOR TV SHOW HAS NASTY SURPRISE
• THERE’S A BIG GAY FD ON THIS SEASON OF ‘THE BACHELORETTE’ – WATCH
• THE BACHELORETTE SKS EVEN LOWER WH AN OFFENSIVE GAY STORYLE
• THE BACHELORETTE’S FAKE GAY RELATNSHIP IS WHY MEN CAN’T BE FRIENDS

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

Colton Unrwood beme the first openly gay man Bachelor Natn April 2021.

It was dropped that 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 male volved wh the show.

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.

COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY

“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.

” 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. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe 29-year-old former football player had wrten about qutng his sexualy a memoir, published Shotwell/Invisn, via Richard Shotwell, via Invisn, via Associated PrsColton Unrwood, a star of “The Bachelor” and a former football player, me out as gay an terview wh Rob Roberts that aired Wednday on “Good Morng Ameri.

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

“‘You know, Colt, we’d still love you and support you if you were gay, ’” he relled his mother tellg father was more nontatnal.

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

“He’d pulled up the history of recent Google search, which clud gay porn s and a variety of qutns: ‘Am I gay? “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. 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.

‘THE BACHELOR’ HAS A TROUBLED HISTORY WHEN TO GAY ROMANCE. IT’S NOT ALONE

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. 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.

“I had never seen a football player that had ma to the NFL that had been gay, growg up Catholic. “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.

HOW MANY GUYS ARE GAY ON THE BACHELORETTE? ANDI SPILLS! PL, THERE MIGHT BE A "HARRY" SPOFF (NO, REALLY)

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. For Unrwood, growg up Washgton, Ill., wh a populatn of 15, 000, there were no gay role mols. Though he felt that he was different at the age of 6, Unrwood never got the chance to teract wh gay people.

GAY BACHELOR TV SHOW HAS NASTY SURPRISE

“I would have done anythg to see a gay football player, ” he says, gettg choked up. He ed a iend’s Blockbter rd to rent the movie, so that no one his fay would spect him of beg gay.

“Gay porn was sort of what I gravated towards, ” Unrwood adms, clenchg his jaw. He remembers that when Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player drafted by the NFL 2014, no one the locker room supported the ia.

THERE’S A BIG GAY FD ON THIS SEASON OF ‘THE BACHELORETTE’ – WATCH

“Growg up sports, I was tght that gay is wrong and gay is bad and football players are not gay, ” Unrwood says.

In the seri, Unrwood will explore his posn of privilege, partly thanks to Kenworthy, who is featured by his si as someone who n relate to Unrwood’s experience, as a gay athlete who me out the spotlight. “He’s been somebody that I’ve not only learned so much om, but he’s held me acuntable and he’s allowed me to see the privilege of beg a straight-prentg gay, whe man, ” Unrwood says of Kenworthy. “Here he is, a cisgenr whe man who out as gay, and he gets a show, ” says Garcia.

THE BACHELORETTE SKS EVEN LOWER WH AN OFFENSIVE GAY STORYLE

He wish his son wouldn’t live his entire life the public eye, but he se the impact his Netflix seri may have on fai who abandon their children for beg gay.

“My dad is proud to say that he is a nservative Republin, and he is also proud to say, I have a gay son, ” Unrwood says. The project, which is currently productn, is an unscripted seri wh multiple episos, numero sourc tell Variety, scribg the project as focg on Unrwood livg his life publicly as a gay man. Earlier today, Unrwood me out, tellg Roberts on “Good Morng Ameri, ” “For me, I’ve ran om myself for a long time and I’ve hated myself for a long time, and I’m gay.

THE BACHELORETTE’S FAKE GAY RELATNSHIP IS WHY MEN CAN’T BE FRIENDS

Prr to g out durg the Wednday morng terview, Unrwood had spoken about his stggle wh his sexualy the past, revealg that growg up, people thought he was gay sce he was a virg football player. Unrwood’s inty as an athlete and gay man is said to be a theme the new Netflix show, acrdg to a person faiar wh the project, who did not reveal any more tailed rmatn.

After starrg on The Bachelorette, Bachelor Paradise and The Bachelor, Colton Unrwood is set to star a different kd of realy seri after g out as gay. After g out as gay a televised terview on Monday, April 14, the 29-year-old former football player already has his next project led up: a realy seri. “The Bachelor’s” Colton Unrwood on Wednday revealed that he’s gay an emotnal terview wh Rob Roberts on “Good Morng Ameri.