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ABC Nixes ‘Gay Dancing’ on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ Show
PJ Media ^
| 11/13/2015
| The Tatler
Posted on 11/13/2015 10:13:18 AM PST by SeekAndFind
ABC’s hit show Dancing with the Stars will not permit two men to dance as a couple during a special performance.
An openly gay singer, Who Is Fancy (yes, that is what he calls himself), is set to perform his new song, “Boys Like You,” with Ariana Grande and Meghan Trainor on the reality competition show’s November 23 episode. The song is about a man falling in love with another man, so the singer’s choreographer wanted to have two men dancing with each other in the performance.
TMZ reports the network will not allow it.
Sources say that that DWTS producer responded to the request via email: “Apologies all but this is a definitive no from the network.”
The network will allow “near” dancing like a performance earlier in the week where “pro dancers Alek Skarlatos and Carlos PenaVega basically toss each other around to Queen’s ‘We Will Rock You.’”
Representatives declined to comment about the situation, but a TMZ source says: “Creative conversations are ongoing about the dance number.”
Business Insider complains, “It would seem that ABC’s nonfiction shows haven’t caught up to its scripted series. A gay couple is part of the central story on ‘Modern Family,’ for example. But it did take ‘Modern Family’ one season for its gay couple, Cam (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitch (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), to kiss, after pressure from viewers and critics.”
What do you think? Should ABC have two men dancing as a couple on Dancing with the Stars?
TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abc; dancing; gay
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I kinda wish they'd try it, just to see how ratings go way up ( or down as the case may be ).
This will be an unofficial pol of how "homophobic" America really is.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
11/13/2015 10:15:49 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
To: SeekAndFind
Heck, why not? They do everything but have live coitus on that show.
To: SeekAndFind
Exactly. Poor Chaz can't find a woman who is interested in “him” for a permanent relationship. Clearly most people are turned off by it when it happens in their own backyard.
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posted on
11/13/2015 10:18:34 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
11/13/2015 10:19:19 AM PST
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
11/13/2015 10:19:52 AM PST
by
Ann Archy
(ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: SeekAndFind
They will eventually cave.
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posted on
11/13/2015 10:20:59 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
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posted on
11/13/2015 10:22:14 AM PST
by
mothball
To: SeekAndFind
Pro-sodomy ABC may be hoisted by their own petard on this one.
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posted on
11/13/2015 10:22:44 AM PST
by
joshua c
(Please dont feed the liberals)
To: SeekAndFind
So, let me get this straight, they’ll bring on a performer to sing a song about gay love, and that’s fine, but won’t let 2 guys dance together? Seems to me this whole thing is just contrived to get press.
To: SeekAndFind
Which one gets to dance backwards in heels?
-PJ
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posted on
11/13/2015 10:24:49 AM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: HamiltonJay
RE: So, let me get this straight, theyâll bring on a performer to sing a song about gay love, and thatâs fine, but wonât let 2 guys dance together? Seems to me this whole thing is just contrived to get press.
This is a TRIAL BALLOON. Eventually, when the gay mafia begins to sharpen its fangs and call for an advertisement boycott on the show, watch how fast these guys cave.
The interesting thing is this — IF THEY DO CAVE, I’d like to see how their ratings will do.
To: dfwgator
This is a TRIAL BALLOON. Eventually, when the gay mafia begins to sharpen its fangs and call for an advertisement boycott on the show, watch how fast these guys cave.
The interesting thing is this â IF THEY DO CAVE, Iâd like to see how their ratings will do.
To: SeekAndFind
They are begging to be hounded into it first.
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posted on
11/13/2015 10:29:34 AM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(Life is good.)
To: SeekAndFind
What’s shocking is that this is ABC.
To: SeekAndFind
Seriously, if you aren’t into the whole gay is normal nonsense and don’t want your kids around it or dealing with it you aren’t going to watch it because they are playing the damned song... let alone have them dance together... this is just contrived “controversy” to get some free press....
People are so ignorant about propaganda in this nation it blows my mind. We are surrounded by media from the moment we are born and so few understand the most basic forms of propaganda it employs routinely.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
11/13/2015 10:33:25 AM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: SeekAndFind
I don’t believe this story. Got one basic fact wrong. Alec and Carlos are not the pro dancers. And the “near dancing” thing...it was a group dance that included their pro partners whose names are escaping me right now.
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posted on
11/13/2015 10:38:05 AM PST
by
chae
(The Lannisters send their regards--Game of Thrones)
To: SeekAndFind
This is a TRIAL BALLOON.Exactly, that's why they had it put out there. You think they're going to stop just because now they have gay marriage? It's just begun, now they are going to attack everything "heteronormative" and go after "straight privilege".
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posted on
11/13/2015 10:40:54 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: SeekAndFind
I don’t understand, Disney has queers all over the schedule, why are they keeping them from dancing?
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posted on
11/13/2015 10:42:06 AM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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