Tuesday brings great news for reality-TV junkies everywhere—or, at least, the ones who get Logo TV in their cable subscriptions.

Because the network, which largely caters to L. But it does seem to be the first time a reality dating show about gay people will actually be about gay people dating—instead of what straight people think of them.

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It will premiere this fall. In the summer of , Bravo premiered Boy Meets Boy. Like Finding Prince Charming, the show featured a gay bachelor sifting through several contestants in the hopes of making a match. The catch?

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Unbeknownst to the bachelor, his pool of potential matches included both gay men and straight men who were pretending to be gay. The show revealed this secret toward the end: As icky as that might sound, in a perverse way, you have to give the show some credit.

At least it foregrounded a gay man trying to find love, instead of using gay men as humorous accessories—or potential roadblocks in the path of straight contestants. All of the gay men on the show had to pretend to be hetero.

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Unlike Boy Meets Boy, there was no chance in this one that a gay contestant could find love unless it was with another contestant. And who could forget Gay, Straight, or Taken?

The format is basically all in the title: Like Playing It Straight, the most a gay man here could walk away with was a prize—not love. All of this is to say that in reality dating shows, gay men have never been allowed to just date. The only downside here?

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All of the groups under the L. Finding Prince Charming could be the first step toward a much more inclusive future. Vanity Fair.

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Bass married actor Michael Turchin in and the ceremony itself became part of reality TV with a special program all about the wedding airing on E! While Logo is billing this as a first-of-its-kind show, it is really only the first gay dating show to feature an all-gay cast.

On that show, bachelor James Getzlaff had to choose between a field of 15 guys, some of whom were gay and some of whom were straight. If one of the straight men could dupe Getzlaff into falling in love with him, he won a cash prize. He then chose a gay suitor in whom he was less interested in order to keep the straight man from winning his prize. Getzlaff and his suitor officially ended their relationship two months after the finale aired.

The show received considerable scorn from gay activists and critics who found the twist cruel and duplicitous. There will be none of that on Finding Prince Charming, which comes at a very different time for the gay community. Now that gay marriage is legal and Lance Bass can have his own gay wedding special on E!

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