Benji Schwimmer’s Naked Truth
When Benji Schwimmer was named “America’s favorite dancer” in 2006, winning the second season of Fox’s long-running So You Think You Can Dance reality competition show, he became something of a Mormon superstar. He choreographed pop stars’ tours and videos, taught dance classes around the world, started a band (The Weekend Forecast), and even played gay in an indie film called Leading Ladies—all while privately struggling to reconcile his very deep faith with the undeniable realization that he couldn’t pray his way out of being gay.
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Can we talk about Mitt Romney?
Even when I was still believing, I was thinking, there is no way in hell I’m voting for him. I’m voting for Obama. I figure [Obama] had four years to clean up Bush’s shit, and now we have to actually give him a chance to run his campaign the way he should. I just think it’s very funny that [Romney] was the governor of one of the first states that actually had same-sex marriage accepted, and yet now denies that he believes in that. I think he is both a punching bag and a puppet. I’m not voting for him. But, then again, why would you want to [listen to] a dancer for my political opinions? I count to eight for a living.
Do you blame the Mormon church for Proposition 8 passing in California?
I believe they tipped the scale. They put money into it illegally, and they were caught with it. I saw the documentary [8: The Mormon Proposition].
Your big competition on So You Think You Can Dance was Travis Wall, who has a new reality show on Oxygen. He’s gay, too, and was pretty open about it back then. Have you talked to him lately?
He was my first crush after I came back from my mission, actually. After the podcast came out, he sent me a text saying, “I’m proud of you.”
http://www.out.com/news-commentary/2012/06/18/benji-schwimmer-naked-truth-sytycd-gay-mormon-sexuality
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