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Saara is now the longest surviving openly LGBT+ contestant ever |
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In all honestly i'm surprised that someone from elsewhere in Europe has made the top 4 in post-Brexit Britain.
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This is literally the first I've heard of it so not sure about your use of "openly"...
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Yet still no girlfriend appearing on the show and Saara has been on in VTs saying she hasnt seen any of her family or friends in months, yet there she is hanging out with her girlfriend after the shows...the show isn't that accepting.
We've seen camp contestants but I don't believe we've ever seen a LGBT contestant's partner on the main show. Maybe Xtra Factor I don't watch that and neither do most of the audience. |
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maybe next year someone in the semi's will happen to be ginger..and you can start a thread congratulating them as well.
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Saara has been open about it in every newspaper and magazine interview.
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Is Saara the first lesbian act on X Factor?
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You must be a right giggle at dinner parties. Jesus, what a character.
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Forget that...
She's the longest surviving bottom 2 contestant too... Bottom 2 first week and she's now almost certain to come 2nd and make the final. Duets Robbie Williams please for Saara Angels Ellie Goulding for Emily Love Me Like You Do Sam Smith for Matt Writings On The Wall
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When did Rylan get the boot. I thought he got this far.
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Is Saara the first lesbian act on X Factor?
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No, there were both Lucy Spraggan and Jade Ellis in 2012 (not in a relationship with each other.)
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IMO, public acceptance of a lesbian is a lot easier sell than public acceptance of an out gay male.
Further, Saara is a femme lesbian. How far would she have gone if she had a stereotypical butch lesbian haircut and never wore dresses? |
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What a ridiculous thread. There's absolutely no connection between show longevity and sexual preference. There's no evidence to suggest the show has a history of being homophobic. The LGBT community have been represented over the years via contestants, hosts and judges.
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Er, yes there is. On many occasions.
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no, because joe mcelderry is gay and he won the show.
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no, because joe mcelderry is gay and he won the show.
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Who cares .a good friend of mine and her partner are an openly lesbian couple and they vote for Matt .your point is ?
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I've been a Saara fan since her audition, but I'd no idea she was LGBT. Probably because I haven't seen any newspaper or mag interviews.
Doesn't make me support her more or less. Presumably she's L or B and not T?
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I've been a Saara fan since her audition, but I'd no idea she was LGBT. Probably because I haven't seen any newspaper or mag interviews.
Doesn't make me support her more or less. Presumably she's L or B and not T? ![]() |
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Who cares about her sexual preferences? She's a person - same as us. It's a TV show.
I really can't stand the term LGBT community - makes it seem like a separate movement. We're the same. |
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Who cares about her sexual preferences? She's a person - same as us. It's a TV show.
I really can't stand the term LGBT community - makes it seem like a separate movement. We are all the same. |
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It's not that we are all the same, what a boring world it would be if we were. We can recognise that we are different but we should not discriminate or hold prejudices because of it.
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In this thread: straight people swearing blind that identity doesn't matter, we're all the same in the one breath while claiming that homophobic institutions denying visibilty to LGBT people and letting us know that we exist and are normal is a-okay too.
You can't have it both ways. Are we equal and normal or are we not? Flip it around, if sexuality can't be a thing, isn't important, then that means no-one should sing songs about love at all, boys, girls, or have a partner of opposite sex on TV because sexuality doesn't matter!! Sure, it doesn't matter - in that case I don't need to SEE that you're heterosexual!! It's fine to just BE heterosexual and not mention or draw attention to it... Because that is essentially what you're saying, folks. That's how ridiculous it comes across. On another note, it always sticks in my craw when contestants covering songs originally sung by someone of the opposite sex feel the necessity - or the show does for them - to change the gender of the person they're singing about or to, just in case it comes across as gay. Because that matters, clearly... |
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In this thread: straight people swearing blind that identity doesn't matter, we're all the same in the one breath while claiming that homophobic institutions denying visibilty to LGBT people and letting us know that we exist and are normal is a-okay too.
You can't have it both ways. Are we equal and normal or are we not? Flip it around, if sexuality can't be a thing, isn't important, then that means no-one should sing songs about love at all, boys, girls, or have a partner of opposite sex on TV because sexuality doesn't matter!! Sure, it doesn't matter - in that case I don't need to SEE that you're heterosexual!! It's fine to just BE heterosexual and not mention or draw attention to it... Because that is essentially what you're saying, folks. That's how ridiculous it comes across. On another note, it always sticks in my craw when contestants covering songs originally sung by someone of the opposite sex feel the necessity - or the show does for them - to change the gender of the person they're singing about or to, just in case it comes across as gay. Because that matters, clearly... |
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