It once seemed that only those not talented enough to make it in Hollywood degraded themselves to reality TV. Today, the script has been flipped, and it’s now a realm for the most interesting (looking at you, Kourtney!), even fangirled by the A-list elite that once shunned them.
The genre’s evolution from entertainment fodder to the golden pedestal it currently sits on was gradual and abrupt. Most exciting of all is how queer it has gotten. But that’s no surprise: leave it to the gays to master the art of stopping being polite… and start getting real!
It used to be revolutionary to have one gay cast member (their storylines were limited to coming out). Now we’re gifted with entire series based on our community and varied, idiosyncratic interests.
From drag to dating and all the queer fun in between, we’ve ranked 15 LGBTQ+ reality shows to stream this summer.
We’ve come a long way in unscripted queer excellence
The LGBTQ+ community became one of the biggest fanbases for reality TV, keeping many of our beloved shows and reality stars in business and getting them checks. But for too long, our representation was excluded from the conversation.
These queer reality series proved gay culture’s rightful place in front of the camera, and some of them maybe show that as talented and exciting as queer people are on-screen, we’re not immune to poor casting choices.
Whether you love or hate them, you’ll have enough reality streaming to keep you laughing (or cringing) at the TV the rest of summer.
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travis.wayne
One has to wonder WHY TF this page would advertise Tila Tequila!?!?? She was cancelled for publicly praising HITLER!!! This site just lost a whole lot of respect from this reader.
DennisMpls
Josh answered that in his blurb following the photo. He points our her Nazi-ism, and says “Thankfully, she doesn’t make $$$ from your streaming on Amazon Prime.” Watching the show for “what it was” at the time won’t profit her at all, and if something has value on its own, then it’s worth consuming if one is interested, and if the offensive creator doesn’t make money from it. Obviously, you can have a different opinion, but that’s mine.