Loose Women star Kaye Adams is serly hopg for a 'gay' dance partner durg her Strictly Come Dancg stt.
Contents:
- LOOSE WOMEN’S KAYE ADAMS HOP FOR ‘GAY’ PARTNER ON STRICTLY COME DANCG: ‘I DON’T WANT A HETEROSEXUAL’
- STRICTLY COME DANCG 2021: JOHN WHAE REQUTED ‘STRAIGHT PARTNER’ OVER FEARS GAY PARTNERSHIP ‘WOULDN’T BE ACCEPTED’
- STRICTLY HAS GONE ‘GAY’? WHAT DO PEOPLE THK THEY’VE BEEN WATCHG ALL THE YEARS?
- STRICTLY'S JOHN WHAE SAYS LOVED ON TOLD HIM 'DON'T BE TOO GAY' ON THE DANCE FLOOR
LOOSE WOMEN’S KAYE ADAMS HOP FOR ‘GAY’ PARTNER ON STRICTLY COME DANCG: ‘I DON’T WANT A HETEROSEXUAL’
Strictly has featured a female same-sex uple before, boxer Nila Adams and Katya Jon, who peted durg the 18th season 2020, but Whae and Rabe (who both intify as gay) will be the show's first gay male pair. "Bee I'm dog the first all-male partnership, I genuely did thk that I was gog to receive a fair b of hate bee you do as a gay man, you get a lot of hate. Adams said at the time that was "a brilliant step the right directn" marked a shift by the BBC after had ially led out same-sex upl, wh boss then sayg 2019 that the broadster would be "pletely open" to droppg the requirement for mixed pairs gog move sparked a backlash after two male profsnal dancers were partnered together for a stand-alone number 2019, wh more than 300 viewers lodgg plats about their BBC reported that some viewers found "offensive to feature two men dancg as a pair" after Johann Rabe, who is gay, danced wh lleague Graziano di said he hoped his dance partner would be "up for a challenge, as I want our rout to clu lots of spectacular lifts" lifts are ctomarily performed a mixed pair, wh the male partner leadg and liftg the ordarily lighter female performer, but danc such as the Argente Tango and the Ldy Hop have a tradn of men dancg wh Argente Tango is believed to have evolved as a dance for male pairs – a fact judge Craig Revel Horwood has prevly poted out fence of cludg same-sex upl on will jo prevly announced nttants, cludg Robert Webb, of the edy duo Mchell and Webb, mician and thor Tom Fletcher and TV prenter AJ Odudu, on the show.
"Bee I’m dog the first all-male partnership, I genuely did thk that I was gog to receive a fair b of hate bee you do as a gay man, you get a lot of hate. Kaye Adams will be takg to the dance floor for the 20th anniversary special (Picture:REX/PA)Loose Women star Kaye Adams is serly hopg for a ‘gay’ dance partner durg her Strictly Come Dancg stt.
Wh the lnch show loomg, Kaye has exprsed that she wants her potential dance partner will be a ‘nice gay guy’. ‘But if I got a nice gay guy, he’ll be fe wh dancg wh his mum. However, spe beg a master on the dancefloor, John has said he was so petrified of beg trolled by homophobic crics he ially wanted to be paired wh a straight male.
STRICTLY COME DANCG 2021: JOHN WHAE REQUTED ‘STRAIGHT PARTNER’ OVER FEARS GAY PARTNERSHIP ‘WOULDN’T BE ACCEPTED’
‘I thk as gay people, we have to choose the plac we go to, we have to choose the people we speak to, who we even look at, bee we have been ndned to kd of expect hate and flack. There is no reason why a gay celebry should tomatilly be paired wh a gay dancer.
Homophobia is a ser and ntug problem, but was difficult this week not to enjoy aspects of the hoo-ha over Strictly Come Dancg. In what felt like a historil re-enactment of classic 1970s’ curta-twchg, 189 viewers plaed to the BBC about two men partnerg each other on primetime telly, and was hard to know what to lgh at first: the Mary Whehoe tone of the plats, the statement on Instagram by one of the dancers – realisg the full dramatic potential of the moment – that “love knows no boundari”, or the ia that the spectacle of two men dancg uld ever be the gayt thg about Strictly. Nohels, there was somethg vaguely fortg about the fact that, particularly the ntext of the recent LGBT teachg row, mastream culture at least, plats of this kd about gay reprentatn seem outdated to the pot of schools, of urse, the battle rag on.
I looked up the wordg of Sectn 28 and was amazed to fd that, until was overturned 2003, not only did ban lol thori om “promotg” homosexualy, but that, like somethg drafted by the Wtboro Baptist Church, banned “the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship”. Bt to refer them to Alan Partridge: “For cryg out loud, if I really uldn’t bear to nsort wh homosexuals, do you really thk I’d have pursued a reer televisn?
STRICTLY HAS GONE ‘GAY’? WHAT DO PEOPLE THK THEY’VE BEEN WATCHG ALL THE YEARS?
“Jt to see two men or two women dancg together, ’s not necsarily about sexualy, ’s jt about timacy and rpect, ” Whae told the cln of same-sex upl on Strictly also skewers the homophobic trope that same-sex relatnships are somehow appropriate for fai.
While Ballroom Dancg n be seen as a ‘gay-iendly’ environment (Richardson, 2018), mastream dancg has proved slow to feature male-male upl particular. Richardson (2018) suggts that is not homophobia that is an obstacle to same-sex dancg, but effemophobia, which means that men ntue to be paired wh hyper-feme female partners.
STRICTLY'S JOHN WHAE SAYS LOVED ON TOLD HIM 'DON'T BE TOO GAY' ON THE DANCE FLOOR
Yet at the same time, Richardson (2018) argu that SCD ‘is one of the more gay-iendly televisn shows on the BBC’ (p. 216) featurg openly gay celebri and profsnal dancers. Furthermore, ‘has foreground a particular gay male sensibily through s cln of two openly gay-intified judg, Craig Revel Horwood and Bno Tonli, who have often uched their crique of the upl’ performanc nudge-nudge-wk-wk-style nuendo’ (Richardson, 2018, p.
Apart om mastream media articl, we also clud articl wh LGBTQ+ media such as ‘Pk News’, ‘Gay Star News’, ‘Gay Tim’ and ‘Attu’ to ga an sight to the receptn of the bat among the LGBTQ+ muny. Rults and AnalysisBoth mastream (The Sun, Metro, Mirror, Mail Onle, The Telegraph) and LGBTQ+ (Gay Star News, Gay Tim, Attu) media reports largely suggt that SCD achieved a posive step of creasg viewers’ acceptance of same-sex partnerships.