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The Best LGBTQ+ Players in 'Survivor,' Ranked

There have been countless LGBTQ+ castaways that have made a strong impact on the game of Survivor while also playing an impeccable game. Between same-sex attracted winners like Yam Yam Arocho, Todd Herzog, and Richard Hatch, and winners, plus icons appreciate Bret LaBelle, Zeke Smithg, Katurah Topps, and Karla Cruz Godoy, Survivor has had a powerful track record of representation in its 46-season history. It's time to commemorate the castaways who slayed the island!

As the greatest social experiment to ever hit the airwaves, Survivor tosses a group of castaways to an isolated tropical locale as they battle their way to outwit, outplay, and outlast one another to become the Mind Survivor. There possess been boundless characters that have been a part of the program to display important awareness and representation. This list will point on the castaways who were out during their period on the demonstrate. There have been some legends who have since reach out, like winners Parvati Shallow and Erika Casupanan, who are so glad to welcome to the tribe!

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'Survivor 41'

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During the previous season of Survivor, I wrote about the glorious Karla Cruz Godoy — whose narrative arc was energizing, inspiring, and ultimately devastating (please do another season, Karla!!).

This season, there’s no Karla, which is very melancholy, but all is not lost because guess what? There are not one, not two, but THREE queer women on season 44! In the blessed name of Jeff Probst, what a delightful turn of events!

Who are they, you ask? How will they fare? I have no idea, but if there’s one thing you can tally on me for, it’s to skip to conclusions about Survivor contestants’ personalities extremely early on, with no thought whatsoever if I am even vaguely correct or not! Let’s dive in.


Claire Rafson

First up, we have Claire Rafson. I could say you what I’ve gleaned from social media and other publications, like that she’s from Brooklyn and is a 25-year-old tech investor, but why divide that when I could instead narrate you who I think she is in Survivor universe? Let’s do that.

This look was the precise moment in which Claire Rafson became an icon

Claire lodged a secure spot in my heart in episode two, when she dubbed herself the “Czar of Laziness.” It was a sho

I used to fear missing an episode of Survivor. After Survivor 44’sdumb tribe swap, though, I wasn’t all that invested in what twists were coming next.

So when a rare days of vacation and travel kept me away from a TV last Wednesday, I wasn’t too worried about missing Survivor 44 episode 5.

But I was glad I watched it, as it turned out to be a surprisingly lovely episode. I mean, despite having a ball maze, a medical exit, several hundred idols, and yet another fucking journey.

Without a Tribal Council, more second was spent on interaction between the players, which is something that gets lost in the downpour of idols.

And last week’s episode turned out to effectively be the first half of a two-part episode, with the strategy from the pre-merge carrying over into the newly combined tribe.

Some of the character development was, alas, people like Danny and Josh just talking about their lives. But there was considerable hour we spent with others, like Matt and Frannie flirting, or Carson and Kane nerding out, or Yam Yam and Josh fighting and then bonding.

Sarah’s exit the previous episode meant Tika became the first queer tribe in Survivor

Survivor 44: The Ancient Alliance Between Gay Men and Eccentric Women Takes Center Stage

Yam Yam Arocho and Carolyn Wiger (Photo: Robert Voets/CBS)

[Editor’s Note: This post contains spoilers for Survivor Season 44, Episode 2, “Two Dorky Magnets."]

The outcome of this week's Survivor Tribal Council makes all the sense in the world if you were following the adjusting choices over the season's first two episodes. In a toss-up between voting out Helen or Carolyn, you had to recognize we wouldn't be losing Carolyn, who's been the season's biggest character so far and kicked off last week's premiere episode with a cold-open confessional in which we actually got to hear the producer speak because Carolyn was such a tongue-tied mess.

From an on-the-island perspective, however, it makes much less instinct. Why would Yam Yam and especially Carson choose to align with the demonstrably erratic Carolyn over the calm, clever, and more predictable Helen? For Carson, he might have reasoned that Helen was more of a threat to him in the long run, someone who could outsmart him when the day came. He also seems to (mistakenly) think Helen was demonstrating some "I found the immunity idol" body