Brokeback Bachelor: Fake Gay Relatnship Is Why Men Can’t Be Friends | Time

Contents:

• COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
• BACHELOR'S COLTON UNRWOOD TO RETURN TO REALY TV AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• THE BACHELORETTE’S FAKE GAY RELATNSHIP IS WHY MEN CAN’T BE FRIENDS
• HOW MANY GUYS ARE GAY ON THE BACHELORETTE? ANDI SPILLS! PL, THERE MIGHT BE A "HARRY" SPOFF (NO, REALLY)
• THERE’S A BIG GAY FD ON THIS SEASON OF ‘THE BACHELORETTE’ – WATCH
• IT’S TIME FOR AN ACTUALLY GAY SEASON OF THE BACHELOR ALREADY

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

Colton Unrwood beme the first openly gay man Bachelor Natn April 2021. The outlet reported that the rtrag orr was dropped that later, 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 man volved wh the May 2023, Unrwood married polil strategist Jordan C. 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. And I’m gay.

“I would have rather died than say, ‘I’m gay. “‘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

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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. In April 2021, the former Bachelor lead me out as gay, notg on Good Morng Ameri, "I've ran om myself for a long time, I've hated myself for a long time.

I'm gay and I me to terms wh that earlier this year and have been procsg . Sadly, gay men were ed, once aga, as the punch le. But as soon as one of the evable iendships is formed, the gentlemen are labeled as “Brokeback” bee the only way that men n share a level of emotnal timacy wh one another is if they are gay like the characters Brokeback Mounta.

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

Last summer, CBS ed the quasi-romantic relatnship between Big Brother nttants Frankie Gran, a gay man, and Zach Rance, a straight guy, as a rallyg pot for viewers. How n the show make up to the gay muny, and viewers at large, for bag them wh a fake storyle?

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

By havg the next bachelor be a gay man. Not only would this prove to Ameri that the show supports same-sex marriage and relatnships, but would also give a whole new twist to a show that seems at ease g gay people to urt viewers. ” In a promo for the episo, one of the two men mak a seri of anodyne statements (“I never thought I would meet someone like that”; “fallg love wh a man never crossed my md”), eded together to build the sense that there’s a gay love affair blossomg among the men who are meant to be seekg Bristowe’s hand marriage.

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

If the gay subplot is beg created om whole cloth, ’s far worse than that.

Start wh the phrase self: The term “Brokeback” isn’t jt a word terchangeable wh “gay.

” It’s a reference to Brokeback Mounta, a 2005 film (and before that, a short story) that outl the social ndns that keep gay men om ever acknowledgg, even to one another, their te feelgs. ” The lewd double-entendre asi, only on The Bachelorette would the existence of gay people be treated as md-blowg. Enough time has passed sce the movie’s release, and enough legal and cultural victori have been won by gay people, that this uld be amed as all--fun japery.

IT’S TIME FOR AN ACTUALLY GAY SEASON OF THE BACHELOR ALREADY

A simple unrstandg of how realy-show promotn works dit that this gentleman is probably not, fact, a gay man, and that the “Brokeback Bachelors” are jt havg a lgh.

But while the show, perhaps rightly, has cid ’s not equipped to handle issu of misogyny or class, eher felt the need to entirely vent a gay storyle or market aggrsively, all for the apparent purpose of provg that gay people are funny, weird and md-blowg. Last year, Juan Pablo Galavis, the then-star of The Bachelor, clared an terview that gay people should not be a part of The Bachelor, sayg: “They’re more pervert a sense. There’s Kalyn and her real suors, there to fd acceptable, TV-iendly love, and then there’s the real or perceived threat of homosexualy at the margs.