CBS's Big Brother Introduces Its First Lesbian Contestant

The sixth installment of the CBS reality show Big Brother premiered last week, and among the 14 contestants living in a house together vying for a cash prize is Ivette Corredero, a 25-year-old openly gay Latina teacher-turned waitress with a live-in girlfriend and a plan to infiltrate the "house of [heterosexual] hotties."

Big Brother is a sort-of Real World-meets-Survivor series that was originally developed in the Netherlands in 1999, and has since been successfully adapted for prime time TV in several countries. In the U.S. version, the format is as follows: a group of people live together in a house for 12 weeks, and each week vote among two nominees to evict one of the housemates, with several mini-challenges and rewards along the way. The last person standing wins a large amount of money.

A 5' 6" Catholic woman of Dominican and Cuban descent, Ivette is the first Cuban-American contestant and the first openly lesbian contestant on Big Brother. In real life, Ivette is open about her sexual orientation, but in her pre-game interview with former Big Brother contestant Marcellas Reynolds on the show's official website, Ivette says her strategy is to lay low in the beginning of the game--which includes not coming out to the other contestants right away.

Disclosing that she's gay might make her more of a threat, she says, and "guys will spend their whole time trying to [convert me], or they might hate me and kick me off. And the girls [may] hate me because they swear I'm not really a lesbian." To which she adds with a laugh, "it's been 10 years--it's not a fake thing, and it's not a phase.

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Sick, sick, sick. A subgroup that represents fewer than 2% of the population (source: NY Times) makes up more than 10% of the households? Barf. Bring back real people like Chicken George. Enough with the wanna-be actors, homosexuals, and dumb girls with big boobies.

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Ivette is either lying about being catholic or being gay. My money is on "gay". She is too attached to Caaaappppy and every other male in the household to be gay. She even fell for Jame's macho swearing on the bible thing. If she really is gay, she'd never fall for a male using that ploy. She's not. She just wants people to fawn over her in order to show how politically correct they are.

And she's the first person to say she's a lesbian. I'm pretty sure there have been others on the show that just didn't say they were.