Last week's premiere of the sophomore
season of all-gay cabler Logo's The A-List: New York has
prompted The New York Times to label the show the new “gay
secret shame.”
The all-gay version of Bravo's reality
series The Real Housewives franchise follows “members of New
York's gay elite plus their families, best friends, and pocket dogs
(natch) as they navigate being fabulous in the city,” a Logo
presser said.
Season one featured The Amazing Race
winner actor-model Reichen Lehmkuhl, his Brazilian model boyfriend
Rodiney Santiago, renowned celebrity photographer and RuPaul's
Drag Race and America's Next Top Model staple Mike Ruiz,
international model Austin Armacost, modeling agent Derek Lloyd
Saathoff and salon owner Ryan Nickulas.
In season two, producers added Nyasha
Zimucha, the CEO of Embrace Your Hair, a hair and wig accessories
company. She is also a budding recording artist and a former beauty
queen.
The Times notes that the show's
original premise about a group of gay people “who live at the
pinnacle of New York society and culture” somehow got lost in
translation.
“It's really like the D-list,”
Daniel
Chenier told the paper. “Let's call it what it is.”
Comedian Bryan Safi's comments that
everybody watches the show but refuses to admit it, prompted the
Times to quip: “Logo, it seems, has created a new gay secret
shame.”