Popular realy TV show "So You Thk You Can Dance" has ma peace wh Ameri's gay muny by puttg a same-sex Lat ballroom uple to a new round of petn and appotg an openly gay judge.
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- STT D. PIERCE: UTAH DANCERS ON 2 TV PETNS CLU GAY DADS AND THE ‘CANCER DANCER’
- TV DANCE SHOW MAK PEACE WH U.S. GAY MUNY
- ‘SO YOU THK YOU CAN DANCE’ CONTTANT TUCKER KNOX REVEALS HE’S GAY AND MARRIED: VIDEO
STT D. PIERCE: UTAH DANCERS ON 2 TV PETNS CLU GAY DADS AND THE ‘CANCER DANCER’
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Producer and judge Nigel Lythgoe ed a furor May when he told another gay uple he thought their samba route would “probably alienate” a lot of the show’s five ln viewers.
Lythgoe later wrote a Twter msage sayg he was “not a fan of ‘Brokeback’ Ballroom, ” alludg to the 2007 gay romance film “Brokeback Mounta.
TV DANCE SHOW MAK PEACE WH U.S. GAY MUNY
” His msage prompted a ll for actn by the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), a meetg wh Lythgoe and executiv at the Fox work, as well as an Emmy-award wng “So You Thk You Can Dance” currently s 6th season on Fox, a format siar to sgg ntt “Amerin Idol” to chose Ameri’s favore dancer through a mix of judg’ cisns and public Wednday’s episo, Jason and Willem De Vri danced an emotnal dn route, g choreographer and judge Mia Michaels to tear up and drawg a pliment om Lythgoe. The Top 20 falists ually perform male/female cln followed the appotment to the “So You Thk You Can Dance” judgg panel earlier this week of Adam Shankman, an openly gay choreographer and director of the 2007 movie “Hairspray” print Jarrett Barrs said on Thursday that the treatment of Jason and De Vri on the show and the addn of Shankman “giv Ameri a bold example of how to treat gay people wh the same rpect and fairns as everyone else. 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.
‘SO YOU THK YOU CAN DANCE’ CONTTANT TUCKER KNOX REVEALS HE’S GAY AND MARRIED: VIDEO
The show has cultivated a fan base of women and gay men sce the very begng. 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.