Tag: Reality TV
After 23 seasons, ABC’s “The Bachelor” is finally featuring a queer contestant
Demi Burnet (image via ABC)ABC’s reality TV romance competition The Bachelor has gone through 23 awkward seasons without having ever featured a gay, lesbian or bisexual lover as the catch of the season. But it seems like the series’ spinoff Bachelor in Paradise is finally featuring a queer romantic interest, breaking new ground in the mostly heterosexual series.
In The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, single men and women simultaneously “date” 25 people in some exotic locale while systematically rejecting all but one...
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Transgender man Quince Mountain in the Discovery Channel’s “Naked and Afraid”Naked and Afraid is a Discovery Channel reality TV show, now in its 10th season, in which a male and female couple must survive a naked 21-day stay in the wilderness by securing food, water and shelter. It’s kind of thirst masquerading as edu-tainment, but yesterday’s episode featured the series’ first-ever trans male contestant, Quince Mountain… and he encountered a wild animal stalking him in the dark.
Mountain is a...
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MTV just announced the that the upcoming season of its hit reality series Are You the One? will feature a sexually fluid cast.
No, not a sexually fluid cast member. An entire sexually fluid cast. As in, every single person on the show will have absolutely no gender limitations when it comes to who they love.
According to The Hollywood Reporter:
Terrence J. will return as this season’s host. He will be joined by newcomer Dr. Frankie, a “relationship expert” who helps singles deal with the after...
