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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. “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.
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”.