A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV , who sees the show as a natural outgrowth of gays' presence in television. Tom Shales of The Washington Post agrees: The show features handsome leading man James the participants' last names are omitted , 32, who works in human resources at a major Los Angeles law firm.
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What drives an obviously attractive, successful gay man to subject himself to what some consider a very wide-reaching video dating service? James, who came out at 22 while in college, explains, "I tend to meet guys who are interested in sex first and then maybe something more if the sex is good. He also wants America to see that the caricatures on most scripted television shows don't accurately represent gay culture.
Not that everyone thinks that normalcy is what's going to come across on Boy Meets Boy.
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Confining the other 15 singles in one house sounds like the makings of a gay porn video, notes Derek Hartley, who dispenses relationship advice at PlanetOut. But Hartley and viewers like him may be disappointed.
For one thing, also living in the house will be James's longtime best friend, Andra — a married heterosexual woman who's there to help James choose. James affirms his friend's importance. If she wanted me to have a one-on-one date with a specific mate, I did. And if Andra's presence isn't enough to be a cold shower for the mates, the only physical connection allowed on Boy Meets Boy is kissing. Evolution was also behind last year's acclaimed, gay-positive Bravo series Gay Weddings.
We really wanted it to be an exploration of sexual politics and not sex. While this kissing rule protected the straight contestants from being asked to put out, it also raises the question of whether gay men know how to court one another without sex being involved.
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It is no different in the gay world. The natural assumption concerning the straight twist is that James or the other gay contestants will be able to spot the imposters in an instant. As James attests, "Gay men look at men the way straight men look at women. That is the dead giveaway. We hope the closeted heterosexuals in the cast will learn what it's like to be gay.
Since gay images on reality TV have becoming something of a stale staple — lately failing to match the excitement generated by, say, Pedro Zamora and Richard Hatch — it's promising that Boy Meets Boy promises to shake up concepts of sexuality. Take it as a good sign, then, that within hours of the show's announcement, Andrea Lafferty of the right-wing Traditional Values Coalition was quoted by the Associated Press as saying, "Clearly, they've hit a new low.
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And while everyone at Boy Meets Boy seems to be approaching the concept with the best of intentions, the show's methodology doesn't necessarily sit well even with potential allies. Bass married actor Michael Turchin in and the ceremony itself became part of reality TV with a special program all about the wedding airing on E!
While Logo is billing this as a first-of-its-kind show, it is really only the first gay dating show to feature an all-gay cast. On that show, bachelor James Getzlaff had to choose between a field of 15 guys, some of whom were gay and some of whom were straight. If one of the straight men could dupe Getzlaff into falling in love with him, he won a cash prize.
He then chose a gay suitor in whom he was less interested in order to keep the straight man from winning his prize. Getzlaff and his suitor officially ended their relationship two months after the finale aired. The show received considerable scorn from gay activists and critics who found the twist cruel and duplicitous.
There will be none of that on Finding Prince Charming, which comes at a very different time for the gay community.