Stt D. Pierce: Utah dancers on 2 TV petns clu gay dads and the ‘Cancer Dancer’

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Tucker Knox, a nttant on the 10th season of 'So You Thk You Can Dance,' publicly announced on Friday that he's gay and married

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STT D. PIERCE: UTAH DANCERS ON 2 TV PETNS CLU GAY DADS AND THE ‘CANCER DANCER’

7 ln followers) as “dadditothree” — were raised as members of The Church of J are of Latter-day Sats, and they met while they were each tryg to “pray the gay away. Gay teens are g out younger and younger the days. Monday night’s season premiere was a particularly strong first episo, and s biggt highlights were explicly gay a way that, surprisg as may sound, has never really been the se wh this dance show.

All of which is to say that SYTYCD explod like a glter nnon on Monday night wh the dn of Jay Jackson, better known to RuPl’s Drag Race fans as Laganja Estranja and ntued wh wh an hour as forthrightly gay as they ever have. There was also the gay tap-dancer who dance-battled wh Twch after talkg about his stggl g out small-town New Hampshire. This isn’t to say that So You Thk You Can Dance hasn’t always been gay.

The show has cultivated a fan base of women and gay men sce the very begng.

TUCKER KNOX, 'SO YOU THK YOU CAN DANCE' CONTTANT, COM OUT GAY & MARRIED

Gay nttants like season 1 wner Nick Lazzari and season 2 wner Benji Schwimmer have flourished, as have gay choreographers like Travis Wall (himself a SYTYCD falist), Adam Shankman, Brian Friedman. ) to talk about girliends and verbalize their csh, the gay dancers never got to share that si of themselv wh Ameri.

There was a kd of quiet closetg that happened throughout the years, as dozens of clearly gay dancers passed through wh nary a mentn of their personal liv.

We all knew that almost all of the boys were gay; we live the world, after all. But the words were never said, for fear that some magil veil would fall om the fac of a mythil middle-Amerin dience who’d then n om their TVs now that they knew that the grand jete that thrilled them mut ago was performed on gay legs.

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Stt D. Pierce: Utah dancers on 2 TV petns clu gay dads and the ‘Cancer Dancer’ .

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