Riptide Blog: "South Florida Makes Big, Queer Reality TV Show History"
by: Autumn Sandeen
Fri Jan 02, 2009 at 18:00:00 PM EST
http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=F25891877B1BF9860AE8E16816BFF4FB?diaryId=8894From the Miami New Times' Riptide blog:
In the event that you've had better things to do than watch MTV deteriorate into a steaming sewer of reality programming, you may have missed South Florida's double-time queer cast previewed on Real World Brooklyn. The show's 21st season premiers January 7 and will follow its first-ever transgender character - a Broward male-to-female named Katelynn - along with a gay Miami Beach dolphin trainer (the mammal, not the team) as they "stop being polite and start getting real" in front of a tilted-for-effect camera.
Katelynn Cusanelli, 24, is a former Palm Beach Community College student and moved in with the cast three weeks after her gender reassignment surgery. Judging by her Facebook profile, she's now doing a decent job "passing" in Missoula, Montana -- post all of that "getting real." (That will no doubt change once the show airs.) The teaser previews one of the male character's thoughtful reflection: "Dude, she was born a man!" And it promises a hipster Mormon and a macho military guy.
