Lance Bass talks about why he wants to host a gay season of The Bachelor, and the signifince of beg the first gay host on the anchise.
Contents:
- THE GAYS ARE TAKG OVER “BACHELOR IN PARADISE”
- FANS WANT A GAY 'BACHELOR' SEASON WH COLTON UNRWOOD, BUT 'S NOT THE RIGHT MOVE. HERE'S WHY
THE GAYS ARE TAKG OVER “BACHELOR IN PARADISE”
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" The show's stg ll is askg for both men and women — a first for the entire anchise Unrwood beme the first openly gay man Bachelor Natn April Unrwood. It was dropped that 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 male volved wh the Burt me out as bisexual durg "Bachelor Paradise, " and she later proposed to her girliend durg the Burt.
FANS WANT A GAY 'BACHELOR' SEASON WH COLTON UNRWOOD, BUT 'S NOT THE RIGHT MOVE. HERE'S WHY
Unfortunately, biphobia and homophobia still exist. In 1996, MTV premiered a gay episo of their h datg show Sgled Out. (MTV)The first gay reprentatn on realy TV stretch back to 1973's PBS doceri An Amerin Fay, which followed the daily liv of an upper-middle class fay Santa Barbara, California, and is monly nsired the first example of the realy TV genre.
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