Southern gays are having a moment with Sundance Channel’s ‘Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys’
The gay reality show sets its second season in the “buckle of the Bible Belt,” Nashville
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- Tenisha Jackson (left) is a little bit in love with her gay best friend Jared Allman on “Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys”
Audiences’ interests were first peaked by the gay male hairdressers wearing skinny jeans and high heels on the “Real Housewives of Atlanta.” Housewife Nene Leakes’s former GBF (reality show speak for “Gay Best Friend”) Dwight Eubanks was even in talks for a spin-off (It ultimately went nowhere). Then the “A List,” Logo’s “Housewives with balls” gay reality show, set its second season in nouveau-riche Dallas. Now, Sundance Channel moves the second season of its reality program “Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys” from New York to Nashville, the “buckle of the Bible belt.” Southern gays are having a reality TV moment.
What makes country queens so appealing? We need not look any further than the Jesus-freakin’, country music-singing, serial-dating men on “GWLBWLB.” The first season of the program was a series of loosely strung vignettes: couples of friends in Manhattan and Brooklyn disconnected from each other, living their lives with nothing for viewers to glean. There were no theories on why girls and gay men got along so well, just that they do. This current season takes much more inspiration from the Bravo TV show model with drama and overlapping storylines. In fact, this show could be better than the “A List” because the dynamic characters naturally interact in small-town Nashville instead of being thrown together by TV producers. The usually high-brow Sundance Channel still isn’t revealing anything new about the gay-girl friendship, but at least this time the show is more fun.