"Gay, Straight or Taken?" bows 2-nite on Lifetime
So, a new dating show on Lifetime has a woman going out with three different men - one straight, one gay, and one in a relationship. She's gotta try and pick the single and straight guy in order to get a free trp with him. I watched the first episode awhile back and it was fine, nothing thrilling. I'd rather see a gay dating show, personally, and see how that goes. After all, we've got so many of those ElimiDATE shows on the air with some not-always very broight people.
AfterElton.com had a thoughtful piece on the new show exploring whether it is something that is good o0r bad for gays. To read it, click HERE.
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Comments
The one on the left is gay. I checked my DVD's. This guy is called Luciano who was one of the contestants on "playing it straigt" on Fox a while back. The concept of that show is similar to this one except about half of the contestants are straight and the other half gay. The Lifetime people clearly haven't done their homework.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 9, 2007 12:20 AM
I got this email from a regular reader and wanted to post it here for everyone to see:
RE: Gay, Straight or Taken -- the gay guy on the premier episode was named Luciano.
On the similarly themed, short lived 2004 Fox reality dating series Playing It Straight that aired 3 out of 6 episodes before being canceled (or maybe it was 4 out of 7), they also had a contestant named Luciano, who was gay.
And if I'm not mistaken, it was the same guy on both series. In fact, I'm 95% sure it was the same guy -- both dark haired, dark complexion and originally from South America. Which begs the questions, is Luciano making a career out of appearing on dating shows where the woman has to figure out which guys are gay?
Your thoughts?
Posted by: Greg Hernandez | January 9, 2007 08:57 AM
The whole "gaydar" thing is so big ... how can this NOT be a show? I have the worst ... gaydar ... ever.
Posted by: Steven Rosenberg | January 9, 2007 10:04 AM