Strictly has gone ‘gay’? What do people thk they’ve been watchg all the years? | Emma Brock | The Guardian

Contents:

• STRICTLY HAS GONE ‘GAY’? WHAT DO PEOPLE THK THEY’VE BEEN WATCHG ALL THE YEARS?
• THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
• ADAM PEATY: STRICTLY E DANCG| STRICTLY| GAY
• STRICTLY: JOHN WHAE SAYS ‘PEOPLE MY LIFE’ TOLD HIM ‘DON’T BE TOO GAY’

STRICTLY HAS GONE ‘GAY’? WHAT DO PEOPLE THK THEY’VE BEEN WATCHG ALL THE YEARS?

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. He and regular weekly partner and Great Brish Bake Off alum John Whae gave the gay pirate fantasy of our dreams when the two performed the paso doble while payg homage to the Pirat of the Caribbean film anchise.

We've jt our first gay pairg Strictly Come Dancg. (I swear I am gayt when watchg this, 's almost sad if I wasn't havg so much fun).

Shame liv so eply wh me and other gay men that ocsnally ris to the surface so fast rults a few tears.

THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023

To see two gay men partnered together on Strictly Come Dancg really attacks the difficulti LGBTQ+ people face, both personally & visibly for society. This was FUCKING I’d seen somethg like this when I was younger, I’d have known beg gay was ok.

I’d have known beg gay wasn’t somethg to be ashamed done #Strictly @jojo_rabe & John Wae?? Anrson, who me out as gay four years ago, will form an all-male uple but looks unlikely to match up to last year’s “John-hann” pairg.

ADAM PEATY: STRICTLY E DANCG| STRICTLY| GAY

Strictly Come Dancg dance profsnal Neil Jon has nfirmed his sexualy after Seann Walsh claimed he was gay after kissg his then wife, KatyaVio LoadgVio UnavailableNeil and Katya on snoggg sndalNeil Jon has seemgly addrsed mours about his sexualy, 18 months after Seann Walsh h him wh a cel jibe.

The 38-year-old profsnal dancer who is a regular on BBC's Strictly Come Dancg has sisted he is not gay, fally puttg to bed the edian's claim.

While this brought wispread nmnatn, wh the public turng agast the pairg, Seann ma worse by sayg at the time: "I’m the guy who kissed a gay man’s wife. “But mum was always like, ‘It’s a shame you’re not gay bee we uld go shoppg together’. “And I was thkg, ‘whether I’m gay or not there’s no chance, you take forever’.

STRICTLY: JOHN WHAE SAYS ‘PEOPLE MY LIFE’ TOLD HIM ‘DON’T BE TOO GAY’

” Wh that, he quashed any mours that he is gay and put Seann's words to bed forever. The profsnal dancer, 24, has been a part of Strictly Come Dancg sce 2016, and has attracted a large followg among gay fans over his time on the dance petn. I jt live my life—but the support om the gay muny is always fantastic.

“I love beg around gay people, gog to gay clubs.

Of gay fans, he add: “It’s really great bee they are always the bt people to always be around. I love beg around gay people, gog to gay clubs.

“Obvly this dtry there happens to be more gay people, so jt seems to work perfectly—and helps wh the sal for the lendar. 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.