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Former Survivor contestant and current OnlyFans performer Ozzy Lusth wants the world to know: he is bisexual.
Lusth, 40, rose to fame thanks to his very shirtless appearances on Survivor: Cook Islands, Survivor: Micronesia, and Survivor: South Pacific. The three seasons led him to becoming a fan favorite, and to his appearance on Survivor: Game Changers.
To date, he remains only one of four players to appear on four different seasons of the show. Viewers also named him one of the “most attractive” contestants in the history of the show in an online poll.
Following his Survivor tenure, Lusth returned to his roots by joining OnlyFans. Prior to his reality TV fame, he worked as a stripper in Santa Barbara, CA.
Related: Zeke Smith describes the worst part of being outed as transgender on ‘Survivor‘
Now Lusth has opened up about his queer identity and blasted Republican lawmakers pushing so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bills nationwide. On April 8, he took to Twitter to criticize the influx of proposed laws, and came out to his fans.
“And for my Republican Colleagues, and anyone else who matters, Yeah I’m Bisexual,” he wrote. “Am I committing crimes?? If so come get me. Let us ALL live with dignity. Ask yourself if you support people, or the f*cked dogma you’ve been fed.”
And for my Republican Colleagues, and anyone else who matters, Yeah I’m Bisexual.
Am I committing crimes??
If so come get me. Let us ALL live with dignity.Ask yourself if you support people, or the fucked dogma you’ve been fed. #ozzyisBi
— Ozzy Lusth (@OzzyLusth) April 8, 2022
Fans, for the most part, voiced their support. A few hours later, Lusth returned to Twitter to address fan speculation about his sexual role.
“Admitting I’m Bi the only question y’all have is; Top or Top?” he tweeted.
Admitting I’m Bi the only question y’all have is; Top or Top?
— Ozzy Lusth (@OzzyLusth) April 8, 2022
He further went on to cheer the confirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
In light of Mr. Lusth’s coming out, we’ve compiled a round-up of some of his best Instagram looks.
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Donston
Over the past couple years there’s been an onslaught of male reality TV “stars” coming out. And more than half of the time it’s right when a season of whatever TV is starting or right when they’ve started an OnlyFans account. No matter how much folks try to defend it, these constant patterns are cringe-y and does make these guys come off like leeches. I was gonna give him credit for calling out the proposed bill. But I quickly realized that he was mostly trying to make himself trend. I just have to accept that this is how this “reality TV star” stuff and a lot of social media works. As soon as they want to be publicly “out”, they’re going to automatically exploit and monetize queerness.
Bosch
Celebrities who don’t come out are monetizing staying-in-the-closet.
This is miles better.
Donston
Then you could argue that he exploited “straight” privilege and hetero appeal for years. And now, he’s looking to do the same with queerness. Honestly, I’d rather folks stay in the closet than be messy and leech-like almost as soon as they “come out”.
I understand family, social and ego pressures. I understand that everyone has their own sexuality and their own journeys with sexuality, love, relationships. I understand the difficulties of dealing with stuff like prejudice, rejection, traumas, insecurities, fluidity, contradictions, paraphiliacs, hyper-sexuality, mental health struggles, trying to understand your nuances and your plaice in the spectrum. But I am officially tired of “coming out” or attaching to queerness being used in such transparently calculated ways. So many G-list public figures and randoms on social media (especially males) are using it as an eraser or as an opportunity to chase clout. “Coming out” doesn’t mean that you didn’t spend years depending on “straight”/hetero-leaning privilege and appeal, doesn’t eradicate years of cheating, years of manipulating your spouse, abuse, assault, grooming, pedo type shit, being a general creep, indulging “problematic” behaviors, saying hateful shit. And it shouldn’t be used as a way to set up clout and narrative and start leeching off of gays/queers. Like, in the past couple years alone this is the fourth reality TV “star” to come out as soon as he opened an OnlyFans.
“Coming out” culture and how queer-dom is used sociologically (especially through social media) has developed so many toxic aspects that the media mostly ignores because they want “hot dudes” to admit to being into guys in whatever ways and to whatever degree. We really need to get past the point of hyping and praising every (good-looking) male public figure who connects to queerness, no matter the messiness and manipulation and leeching.
Bosch
Ah. So if they stay in the closet, they’re bad. If they come out of the closet, they’re bad.
Stereotyping people is supposed to a feature of the homophobes, not of us.
man5996853
Unfortunately, I think this extends far beyond the reality TV star world. Most people exploit what is in the zeitgeist to get ahead. We see it firsthand on our tv screens or twitter feeds when it comes to these celebrities but I see it in real life all of the time. The only difference is that we don’t have a platform of the same size to take advantage in the same way that these people do.
I’m not arguing that it is right because I largely agree with you but I don’t think that he is any/much different from most people.
DarkZephyr
So should reality stars and celebrities just NOT come out? Donston, are you old enough to remember how helpful it would have been had celebs been WILLING to come out but didn’t back in the 80s, 90s, early 2000s? When LGBT youth and average joes and janes had nobody to look up to? This kind of thing is far more GOOD than it is BAD. When did you get so cynical and judgmental?
Jaquelope
@Bosch: Are you saying there hasn’t been ANY stereotyping been going on in the history of LGBT+ people, or even now, by our own community? For over the last century, we’ve divided ourselves into Sissies, Bears, Otters, Machos, Fems, Butch or Fem (“Lipstick”) Lesbians, Bull Dykes, and others, often to feel superior to others whose presentation was different from the group you (not necessarily specifically yours personally). I’ve known many people who, in public act as if they are so macho, manly and “masculine” who, if one gets them in bed has “heels of helium” which raise the microsecond they go from a vertical position to horizontal, begging to be totally stuffed like a turkey at Thanksgiving.
I don’t say this is how it should be, but that’s how it seems to be.
Donston
DarkZephyr, I’ve always been cynical. But I’ve always tried to be understanding and empathetic and nuanced when it comes to almost every conversation. When you see similar patterns nearly every damn month, you have to start breaking shit down and try to understand why something is happening. And I’m definitely aware that it extends beyond G-list reality TV “stars”. This ain’t 2013 any longer. The world has evolved and how people use social media, identity, sex has evolved. We all need to keep catching up and keep evolving the conversations. Simply going “yay” every time a “hot dude” publicly attaches to queerness is of a different era.
We need to start having real and nuanced conversations about identity politics, “coming out” culture, ego and sociological driven presentations, using identities or behaviors as a cover-up or as an eraser, the different ways people exploit and monetize identities, sex, privileges. That is almost as important as continuing to talk about closet pressures, homophobia, femme-phobia, trans-phobia, internalized phobias, gay resentments, queer insecurities, traumas, mental health, the dimensions and individualism of sexuality, fluidity, the gender, sexual, affection, affirmation, romantic attachment, emotional investment, commitment spectrum. All of these conversations are connected. And things don’t evolve through one-note dialogue or if you’re a basic a-hole or a basic Polly-Anna.
mala
Everybody’s a self-professed bisexual nowadays but have yet to be in a same sex relationship publicly that has lasted longer than a minute.
You also have to take into account guys who are trans attracted and say they’re bi because people say they’re gay.
Donston
Jaquelope and Mala, that type of stuff isn’t really what I’m talking about. This isn’t about going after “bi presenting” guys (I’m pan-sexual myself) nor is it about going after guys who feel the need to be “masculine acting” in order to attain certain privileges and have certain types of appeal. But I suppose it is all connected in a way.
I’ve always said that identities or “coming out” is simply one aspect of a large and complex puzzle. We also need to talk more about the different ways folks use identities, sex, their looks, their privileges, masculinity, femininity, “gay culture”, the “straight’ world”. We need to talk more directly about traumas, mental health, fluidity, hyper-sexuality, contradictions, paraphiliacs. While there’s a lot of leeches and vultures and a lot of people (particularly guys) who are primarily driven by ego, insecurities, status, clout, attention, money no matter their dimensions, sexuality, preferences, who they love or have relationships with, where they are in the gender, sexual, romantic, emotion, relationship, commitment. It may be “cynical”, but it’s all reality. And it’s okay to acknowledge all this stuff and have conversations about it.
DarkZephyr
“This ain’t 2013 any longer.”
This isn’t the first time you have said something like that. Dude…kids are still kicked out of their homes and abandoned by their families over being LGBT. Coming out of the closet isn’t a “culture”, its a necessity and it always will be. You aren’t having nuanced dialogue by being unpleasant, judgmental and abrasive.
You are making a LOT of assumptions about people without any objective evidence, by the way.
And *if* his motives for coming out are business related, so what? He isn’t “monetizing queerness” any more than other sex workers are monetizing straightness. Like them, he’s monetizing his body, which is HIS right to do if he wants to. People usually want to know the answer to the question “Are you gay, straight or bi” in that situation. Plus, if he was tight lipped about it, someone else just as ticked off as you seem to be would come along and bitch about THAT.
I don’t know, Donston. It almost seems like its not so much the coming out that presses you, but the kind of person that is coming out. You seem to look down your nose at sex workers and social media celebrities.
As you said, acknowledgement and discussion is OK. Of course it is. But its not necessary to be unkind about it.
cubcmh
Lusth – is the H silent?
johncp56
so so attractive to me., I would gladly. yum!!!
SDR94103
gay as hell. buh bye.
Man About Town
I continue to feel baffled as to why anyone would be foolish enough to take anyone who has an “OnlyFans” account seriously.
Ronbo
Can anyone posting in a comments section really be taken seriously?
We are the best part of Queerty because we expose our truths. And let’s face it, some of the only fans people are only revealing their best parts.
RyanMBecker
Ok, I don’t watch Survivor but if that’s considered one of the most attractive, well, I’m not going to start watching. Only one of those photos is arguably attractive. And the video frame makes him look like Ron Jeremy, one of the ugliest men to ever do porn.
For what it’s worth, one of the more attractive Survivor contestants did apply for a position on our research team. I was the first one to approve his CV, without even knowing who he was. I forget his name but he was the neurologist on the first episode (?) of Survivor. From what I understand, he was considered a hunk. The female and gay staff members gushed over his impending interview. I remember jokes about his “pole” and his prominently pierced nipples (leading you speculation about his sexuality). Apparently, he did something with a fishing pole that was very phallic. He would’ve been quite an asset for us because we were targeting the gay community for HIV research and he was a gay favorite — despite another contestant being openly gay (the winner?). Unfortunately, he cancelled because he accepted another position. Oh well, what could’ve been…
RyanMBecker
“And for my Republican Colleagues…”
Er, what colleagues are he referring to??? His stripper colleagues or OnlyFans colleagues? I’m guessing that neither have a lot of Republicans…