The coalition of gay and straight alliances in media performances stops the flow of stigmatized and othering representations of the LGBTQ community.

While there has no doubt been a commodification of gay identity on reality television, examples of resistance are increasingly in evidence. These instances of progressive performativity have become possible through heterosexual/homosexual alliances formed within the structure of the programming. While Jon Murrays standing as an openly gay man influenced the inclusion of gay participants in The Real World, this type of early alliance (a gay producer aligning himself with gay performers) has been displaced by alliances within the text. Consequently, Richard Hatch's success may be deemed to have been possible though his alliance with nongay performers, and James Getzlaff so success may have been possible through his close friendship with heterosexual female Andra and their impromptu alliance to ostracize the presumptuous intruder. No doubt Boy Meets Boy is a landmark work. It co-opted successful representational paradigms of gay male identity and homosexual romance from the groundbreaking reality shows The Real Worldand Sur-vivor. Boy Meets Bay attempted to undermine behavioral stereotypes by placing a gay man in competition with heterosexual males. Although James Getzlaff may have little in common with Richard Hatch, both represent emerging gay power bases within reality texts - representations that counter subjugation. The future of gay performance in reality television is currently under review. The outstanding success of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy suggests that alliances between gay and straight performers will become more central. Queer Eye includes a cast of gay men who involve themselves with a heterosexual male in order to improve his social/romantic pros-pects. While the show is (currently) growing in success (with the format sold to 20 counties worldwide (TV Barn), this type of alliance is inherently unbalanced and is a regressive depiction of gay identity.