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July 11th, 2008 by Celeb | Filed under Celebrity Gossip, DWTS, Lance Bass, Television.
Former N*Sync member Lance Bass has been tapped to appear on the new season of Dancing With The Stars. Nothing unusual about a former boy bander doing some ballroom dancing — Joey Fatone pulled it off. The unusual part is that Bass, who is now openly gay, might be assigned a male partner. Now I see where ABC is going with this and they are trying to make a statement about equality and everything, but this show is about entertainment. I can see this being a huge controversy as certain markets threaten to pull the show on moral grounds. Plus who would lead and can both partners to lifts and tosses? That just creates an unfair advantage for Lance and his partner. What do you think about Lance having a male partner? Will it be a positive move, create a media circus, take away from the enjoyment of the show or add to it?
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That is truly disgusting… I will never watch that show, I have a feeling this will kill the show. No one wants to watch two men prancing around together.
A teensy tiny bit of research would have fixed all of your questions. Like, maybe a call to a dance studio.
Many men and women, even straight ones, can both lead and follow. Shockingly, a penis isn’t required to lead in dancing, and vice versa.
Educate yourself.
For some reason I am reminded of Blades of Glory.
That’s sorta funny. But I don’t think it’ll promote equality more than it will be an absurd, shameless grab for ratings…and I’m pretty sure that exploiting anyone’s race, sexual preference, or what have you is NOT promotion of equality.
i agree with ugh.. parents lock your children out of that channel with your parental controls.. the generations to come are gonna be truly messed up because the entertainment industry and its money hungry ways are allowed to manipulate minds to gain ratings.. boycott this unnatural, imoral, garbage.
Although I believe it to be a very sweet idea, dancing typically has two roles: to lead and to follow. For the one who said “no one wants to watch two men prancing around together,” that is a generalized assumption. It may create a media circus; however, the fact that dancing is a fine art, and most of the audience enjoys the fine art may more than likely enjoy this “spicy twist” to this sitcom.
I am a ballroom dancer, I have been competing for 12 years. It is not unusual, at all, in the ballroom dance community to see same-sex partners on the dancefloor, regardless of sexual orientation. You do not have to be gay to follow, as a man.
This move will really only upset religious bigots who think that their magical sky-friend has decreed that homosexuality is wrong. Homosexuality is an amoral issue, that is, unrelated to morality.
“me”, there is nothing unnatural about two men dancing together that is not ALSO equally unnatural about any two people dancing together. How, exactly, is ballroom dance natural?
Get on with the times, your religious zealots. As in the 1960 with the black movement, things are changing and looking up for minorities of all kinds…even homosexuals… and I’m sorry, aren’t you suppose to love thy neighbors….
Sounds just fine to me. Anyone offended by something as benign as dancing frankly deserves to be offended. Save your outrage for the obscene violence and raunchy sexuality (most of which, by the way, is heterosexual) that’s so prevalent on TV, in movies, in popular music, etc. I hope that ABC does it, and gives it no ridiculous sensationalism. It’s a non-issue as far as I’m concerned, and should be handled as such.
that is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. i’m sure it won’t kill him to dance with a woman.
Is this a joke? Seriously?
This is incredibly degrading to Lance Bass, whoever he is partnered up with, the gay cmmunity as well as the audience. I will not watch this season if they do this.
“me” — your coments only reveal tthe depths of your ignorance. Future generations will be as disgusted by your coments as we are by racism and slavery.
This will create a media circus (just read the coments above for proof) but it shouldn’t.
Dance is dance. Either you dance well, or you don’t. Gender changes nothing in those terms.
Just enjoy the show.
I hope his partner is HOT and drives the homophobes insane.
This is absolutely disgusting. Just one more indication that the United States has lost all ties to its religious roots. Next to abortion, acceptance of homosexuality is the biggest indicator that there is no true right or wrong in this country, only moral relativism. God help us all.
Blah. Headline doesn’t match the story.
Lance Bass is gay. Lance Bass will be on DWTS. There are male professional dancers on the show. Lance Bass “MAY” be assigned a male partner.
Come back with Lance Bass HAS been assigned a male partner and we can talk about the scandal. Anybody who thinks Disney would come up with something so controversial on one of their flagship shows is smoking something.
If you have a problem with this you are a bigot. And the sad part is, you probably thing being bigoted against gays is the moral stance.
Sorry, your religion is a fairy tale, just like all the rest. Deal with it.
peter north - My Atheist God is helping - helping drive IDiots like you crazy by showing that ALL humans are accepted, not just the bigoted ones.
I hope, if he is cool with it, that they assign him a male partner. I’d like to see how the moves would be similar/different compared to the other partners. Haven’t watched DWTS since the first season, but this might actually get me to watch again.
I never watched this show in the first place
Of course this is disgusting – why else would Disney put it on the air if not for ratings and to promote the sodomite agenda. If one wants to see who the real bigots are just look at the posts on this site. Most are just anti Christian rhetoric. No real thought out points of discussion or logic – just hatred of a group of people for loving them enough to tell them the truth. The sodomite life style does not allow you to experience the most that your creator has designed for you. It is extremely hazardous to your health and you have a choice. Don’t be fooled by the real bigots.
Yes! All is going according to plan…
Just kidding…theRod loves the ROD
Christian’s cheat, lie, steal and are gay, so do Muslims, Jews and Satanists.
Grow up people you are no better than anyone else.
Go ahead, cast that first stone. I hope your kids grow up gay.
Most of these remarks aren’t “anti-Christian.” They are opposed to people who claim to be Christian while, at the same time, judging others as if they have that right and privilege. My father is a pastor and my sister a lesbian. He doesn’t judge her, whether he agrees w/ her choices or not. He is not hateful to people he has never even met. He actually tries to incorporate Jesus’s teachings into his life. May I remind all the so-called “Christians” out there that Jesus hung out w/ whores, thieves, drunkards and anyone else who he felt needed his help. He showed them God’s love through the compassion of his actions, not by condemning them w/ ugly words and judgements. Maybe people would be more open to Christianity if they were shown more then judgemental, holier-then-thou attitudes. Try love, compassion and acceptance if you want to convey the love of Christ. You might be surprised.
To “peter north”:
You do know that the guy who represents your screen name has had sex with men on camera, right? How does that make you feel?
never watched the show before, i just may watch now. about time the liberal media backs its words up with some actual equality.
Fluffy,
While I’m not religious myself, it is very pleasant to see a Christian actually following Christ’s teachings. So many ‘Christians’ who post on the Internet are simply uneducated bigots like theRod (above) and give the rest of you a bad name.
I have nothing against gays, but this is beyond absurd. Not only will I never watch that show again, I have locked out the network for this asinine attempt at diversity.
It may seem like media propaganda, but let’s face it… there’s gay people in the world, and everyone just has to get used to it.
It has to happen eventually, and the ‘firsts’ are usually the ones that people will make the most fuss over.
As one individual stated above, it’s not really ‘new’ to dancing to have same sex couples, but I think people just like to make a fuss because it’s Lance Bass, and it hasn’t been seen on the show yet.
I say… ‘Whatever… eventually, this won’t mean anything one way or the other.’
This is disgusting. I will not be watching this show. Most people do not want to see this.
DWTS is one of my favorite shows and this comes as a surprise to me that they’d do something like this. I’m not disgusted by the concept of two men dancing together, however. If Lance Bass feels more comfortable with a male partner, then so be it. Still on the fence about this. I guess I’ll wait until the show airs to form my opinions.
Something tells me that people wouldn’t be NEARLY so opposed if it was two women dancing together. Seriously, we’d have thousands of bachelors setting their TIVOs for it.
Where is our society headed? This is prime time TV. Kids are watching. Gay is a SUB-culture, a minority. They represent a small percentage of the population but are overrepresented in the liberal media. Keep it in the closet or at least, keep it away from my kids. DWTS will not be seen in my home again.
I’m already taking down notes on how to explain this to my kids. I’m all for gays rights blah, blah, blah…..Why does their sexuality have to be so out front in everything they do. Gays need to be like Richard Simmons. We all know he’s gay he just doesn’t make it his agenda.
Hmmmm..Seeing him dancing with a male partner on Dancing with the Stars may be great. That’ll be a breakthrough for the show.
Let Justin Timberlake be his partner! LOL
JAKE SAID IT BEST ABOVE. Anyone who is offended by something as benign as two men dancing deserves to be offended…lol.
It should definitely be treated as a “Non-issue”, and would serve ABC well to keep it that way.
Dear Will,
Your reasoning is severely flawed, and you are being discriminatory.
Using the EXACT SAME argument you used, I could argue that African Americans are “a SUB-culture, a minority. They represent a small percentage of the population…” And therefore… what? You think they do not deserve any airtime?
Having one same-sex (at least partly homosexual) couple out of over 70 that have been on the show (counting this upcomming season) so far is not overrepresentation. They didn’t specifically cover this in Graduate School but I’m pretty sure that’s called Underrepresentation.
Speaking of which, I recall parents in the South saying the exact same lines when African Americans started appearing on TV with greater frequency. Mostly inspired by Christian rhetoric.
Perspective, it’s a good thing.
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If you’re a fan of ballroom dancing competitions AND a homophobe, there’s a good chance you’re the only person around you who doesn’t know you’re gay.
“I’m already taking down notes on how to explain this to my kids. I’m all for gays rights blah, blah, blah…..Why does their sexuality have to be so out front in everything they do. Gays need to be like Richard Simmons. We all know he’s gay he just doesn’t make it his agenda.”
I’m all for heterosexual rights, blah, blah blah… but why does their sexuality have to be so out front in everything they do? Whenever I see a straight man who wants to dance with a straight woman IN FRONT OF CHILDREN, FOR GOD’S SAKE, it sickens me. It’s so obvious that they’re trying to push their heterosexual agenda on everyone.