Contents:
- STRICTLY HAS GONE ‘GAY’? WHAT DO PEOPLE THK THEY’VE BEEN WATCHG ALL THE YEARS?
- THE DATG RUL FOR GAY COUPL
- 6 STAG EVERY GAY COUPLE SHOULD REACH THEIR RELATNSHIP
STRICTLY HAS GONE ‘GAY’? WHAT DO PEOPLE THK THEY’VE BEEN WATCHG ALL THE YEARS?
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. 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.
THE DATG RUL FOR GAY COUPL
There is no reason why a gay celebry should tomatilly be paired wh a gay dancer. Both John and Johann are also openly gay, wh John recently suggtg an terview that such a pairg would be ‘important”. ” He add that he thought would be “really important for him” as beg an openly gay dancer, due to beg a “powerful msage”.
Yet, he noted that future a same-sex pairg don’t necsarily need to be two gay men for an all-male uple. While speakg to and other prs, John admted that he ially expected to ‘receive a fair b of hate’, statg: ‘Bee you do, as a gay men, you get a lot of hate, ’s somethg you grow up wh and you learn to al wh. John is lookg forward to learng a sizzlg Samba (Picture: BBC/PA)‘That’s not to say that the future has to be two gay men, uld be two straight men dog an all-male uple.
6 STAG EVERY GAY COUPLE SHOULD REACH THEIR RELATNSHIP
"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. “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. Although Johann is yet to reveal tail on a relatnship, he has discsed his journey as a gay man and the homophobic bullyg he has received.
He ntued: "I didn't realise I was gay until they poted out. Openly gay profsnal dancer Johann Rabe is the top choice for John Whae. 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.