“If you want the most dramatic season ever, do an LGBT version. I think maybe it’s the time for The Bachelor to do a gay Bachelor. I think that would be so much fun. And I definitely know a host if you need it. I have not talked to anyone about that, but I would be so down. I think it’s so needed. I love the fact that they’re really branching out. They’re doing the seniors next, which I think is such a great idea. I like that they’re trying different things and I think the next step, the obvious step, would to be an LGBT version. I would love to see a show where you had lesbian, gay, trans, bi. To me, bisexual is just such an interesting thing to watch because everyone is an option.”— Former *NSYNC member Lance Bass, publicly lobbying ABC to do a queer version of The Bachelor. Bass, a self-proclaimed fan, told Variety that the franchise has yet to tap into the thirsty LGBTQ market, while other franchises have done so with mixed results. Bass hosted the LOGO dating series Finding Prince Charming in 2016. In 2019, the MTV series Are You The One did a season with an all-fluid cast to great success.
wikidBSTN
Please no. The original is bad enough.
Yooper
Let’s not stoop to that level.
Jricchio
No. Please do not push to get this project green lighted. The community does not need to do this type of television.
Why not a “gay” (and I hate that I just said that!) Golden Guys?
Just a thought but NO to any reality show.
MISTERJETT
i wouldn’t watch this version either.
mountainmaat
HELL YES!! Let’s go Lance!!! Love this idea, push it further and let’s do a LOVE ISLAND and so some RIDICULOUSNESS. LGBTQIA can show the world HOW TO LIVE LIFE fearlessly. Great plan.
spunkfunker
A guy version of RIDICULOUSNESS would never work! For one most gay guys wouldn’t even attempt some of the idiotic things that people do on that show, Jumping off of roofs, trying to hit someone in the balls intentionally with a ping pong ball. Secondly if they were that stupid, hopefully they wouldn’t film it.
Kangol2
Wasn’t Prince Charming a gay version of The Bachelor, and didn’t that turn out to be a bit of a mess? Not that there shouldn’t be this kind of show, but you already tried this and it was flawed, so why not rework that and go for it?
Bengali
Yes. I was just thinking of that too. It was poorly executed. I have to believe they’d do a better job with it today…ok, believe is too strong a word. I should have said,
“I have to ‘hope’…”.
Chrisk
I think that had more to do with Robert Sepulveda as the bachelor.
GayEGO
They should have these shows include LGBTQs.
Bengali
How would that work? I am not knocking your comment. Just curious as to your vision. Are you saying to intermingle gay and straight bachelors? Asking out of nothing more than curiosity.
Openminded
Maybe, and that’s with a big question mark, Maybe have a Bi guy or Bi girl as one of the pool to choose from, but to add a straight up gay guy or girl as a choice is only going to cause a train wreck and make the LGBT community look sneaky and untrustworthy.
Cam
Didn’t Bass already host “Finding Prince Charming”? And that turned into a total meltdown.
Andy
Oh wow Finding Prince Charming was a fiasco! The runner up turned into a total Snark. The winner ( and indeed a total winner) was a prostitute and was not all the jazzed up interior designer he said he was. The show felt like it was fixed and they had every boy from West Hollywood there. If they do it again, let someone else produce it.
Mikki
Maybe a gay Love Island could work. But in a Gay Bachelor, it would just end up being all the contestants hooking up with each other and leaving the Bachelor holding his bouquet of roses in an empty room.
Mack
Those were my thoughts as well.
Jere
They would have to address the obvious problem though…the Bachelor would be a single gay guy and the contestants would be a bunch of other single gay guys sharing a house. How do you keep focus on the Bachelor and keep the other guys’ eyes and hands off each other?
Mack
In other words, a gay Big Brother.
Kangol2
They did it with Finding Prince Charming, which Lance Bass was involved with. Just wondering how many other people caught or missed that show. Queerty did cover it extensively. All the participants were gay, some were very hot, none slept with each other while in the house (as far as we know?), and most wanted to snare “Prince Charming,” who turned out to be a bit of a mess, though he was attractive.
50 50
100%. Having worked in production – they would cast for inter-personal friction and if the contestants are at any level ‘attractive’ they’re egos will connect them with each other.
skeldare
Maybe a bisexual bachelor with both women and men as potential suitors would work better.
Fahd
Why not? It could not be worse than the current versions, could it? I personally couldn’t commit to watch though.
ShiningSex
Sadly if they did the show, it would have the most boring men in our community. Clean cut, Hollister boring types.
Seth
Our community doesn’t need to produce more vapid trash just so Lance Bass can get some work.
jaimedance3
Sure Lance, let’s get the most homophobic television station to do a TV show about gays looking for gays to hook up and have sex! Are you nuts? After all ABC canceled GCB because the homophobic republicans and the homophobic Christian bitches didn’t like what was happening before their eyes their truth! And let’s not forget about Ellen whenever Ellen came out on ABC that show was surely canceled shortly after in fact any other gay topic show that ever aired on ABC was always pulled after only 1 season! If you’re looking for a job how about going out and getting one! And by the way Lance yeah let’s have a gay Bachelor and show the world everything that we LGBT people are trying to stay clear of your typical type casted gays! You know the ones, the ones that are so flamboyant they even make 90% of us throw up!
rickywintour
Stop hating because flamboyant gays get more men than your ugly fake masc behind. You’d make anyone want to jump off a building with your horrible personality and hideous mentality bum Queen. I bet 100% your a gay incel who peaked in middle school and still hasn’t glowed up loser.
Mr. Stadnick
If Lance Bass has no original ideas maybe he should stick to running bars on Santa Monica Blvd.
jaimedance3
We all know that we are here! We don’t need to see the Flamboyant and Nelly queens on television to give people more reason to beat the living shit out of us. And we don’t need to see the over muscled attitude throwing queens either! Don’t we see enough of this in our daily lives already? Why do we need to see it on television too! Why try and glamorize gay life when it isn’t!
Kangol2
This is second comment in which you seem to be blaming gay men for homophobia and anti-LGBTQ attitudes and violence. Stop it! No matter how effeminate or flamboyant a person is, whatever their sexuality or gender, there is no excuse for hatred or violence. Please look in the mirror and then think about about your own internalized homophobia, because that’s what your comments are coming off as.
jaimedance3
@Kangol2 the truth hurts don’t it! 🙂
ddonts
I have never watched a Bachelor or Bachelorette show and I don’t plan to start now, but I would definitely watch The Golden Guys. Great idea.
fredk3
it would give ammo to the opposition any time one of the guys acted even remotely emotional or dramatic. a double standard for sure but i’d rather they create hallmark-style love stories – emphasize the positive.
LunaSol2010
Before the wild storyline of interesting good men and 1 or 2 high maintenance paranoid gay bachelors, acting out badly like middle school girls. It has the typical mind games between men. Plus it added older men less fit bodies questioning their confidence.
After the half way mark … the hunky aloof, cool, hot gym body with dubious employment history, lead Bachelor had a secret … he had been a sex worker during college …
We have a previous brutally mean spirited gay competition.
The bachelors have to guess who is gay or straight.
Mid point a group of bi and straight gym bunnies throw mattresses out windows and terrorize the gay men seeking love. They are thrown out of the Bachelor mansion.
It was ugly. The straight guy if chosen won money and prestige. If a gay man was chosen by the gay lead Batchelor then it was $ for the 2 gay men.
Greed, bullying, extreme catering to homophobic production choices, and extreme bad behavior … it was nauseating.
A hot mess that hit the red hot fan throwing back a burn on every one involved. It was meant to be a source of laughter of the homos. And its mean spiritness was obvious and cruel.
We deserve a WOKE Gay Bachelor where humiliation is a natural factor of bad choices and misguided intentions. Like all Bachelor franchise series that entertain … it could work.
Perhaps the greatest attraction is the decision or choices people make on their feet in relationships with others on a competition for love show.
I think an all drag queen show is more acceptable than a Gay Bachelor to a straight audience.
But could it be seen as too much for straight audiences? Under estimating audiences intelligence.
It will be very human. The affections and intimates as gay men/women sort through cameras everywhere during planned games, dates, gossiping, drama, communication … human relationships in their brash, bold, secretive and messy dynamics we all have been through and can relate. And always will.
Are viewers ready to accept gay relationships as equally romantic and entertaining in the exotic locations?
We shall see. I am hopeful.
And having seen ‘Finding Prince Charming’ 3 times. It’s hard not to want to see a better show with gay bachelors working through their desires, feelings, commitment, integrity vs lies, pettiness in surreal dating on TV
It should be known gay romances and M2M erotic ebooks are hit sellers. With gay men and interestingly .. a large buyers identified as Japanese housewives that enjoy a lifestyle or human sexuality that is outside their experience.
This leads to the question are North Americans audiences that open minded to tune in? Or are they ready but studios are not.
Are producers and networks willing or not? Advertisers will jump on board! Judging the audiences and producers it could be difficult. They cannot cut it off at Episide 3 of 9, if ratings are indifferent. And its needs a dedicated group of producers, crews and handlers to create a quality support to a human deep desire, our seeking love in our lives. A promise of hope.
Fah tay pantz
Just what the world needs another trash TV show full of more self absorbed shallow fame whores.
How about trying to put some effort in and make a show that doesnt appeal to the lowest common denominator? Oh yeh hang on it wont rate amongst its target demographics lol
Terrycloth
In covid times I don’t want to see straight couples playing tonsil hockey let alone gay men..they better hide their junk too. Otherwise it might get too hot for tv ..I say no …no matter what you’d call it ..I’m in the minority hated Queer eye .. thought queer as folk was good until it went on too long
nitejonboy
God no, aren’t we made enough of a punchline on TV as it is ? Must everything have a gay slant just so we can say ” representation ” even if the work itself is a piece of crap like most of the stuff that gets made. For every good show that gets made that shows us in a good light, there’s fifteen that make us look like a joke….this would just be more of the same…we aren’t some wild tropical species you can march onto TV once a year for ratings.
Cozmo2
This is going to be one big orgy