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Gay Man on The Alaska Experiment
Submitted by E. Ross on Tuesday, 14 April 2009 – 3:45 PMNo Comment
The first episode of “Out of the Wild: The Alaska Experiment” airs tonight on the Discovery Channel and one of the participants is Jake Nodar, an openly gay man.
AfterElton interviewed Jake:
Out of the Wild: The Alaska Experiment isn’t your typical reality show. And thirty-year-old Jake Nodar isn’t your typical reality participant, especially not when it comes to those usually found on The Discovery Channel. Nodar is gay and, as hard as it is to believe, in nearly twenty-five years of operation, the network has never featured an out gay man in its programming.
That changes Tuesday night when Nodar, along with eight other participants, are dropped in the middle of the Alaskan bush and told to find their way out with minimal supplies and virtually no help. But don’t mistake this for a colder version of Survivor. There are no reward or immunity challenges, no scheming alliances and no million dollar prize.Instead, Nodar and the eight others face only brutal weather and mile after mile of trudging through the Alaskan wilderness as they work to navigate their way back to civilization.
The series was filmed in September 2008. After a three-day crash course in basic survival skills, including how to shoot a gun, skin an animal and start a fire without matches, the volunteers were flown to interior Alaska, described by Discovery as “one of the most inhospitable terrains on earth.”
“Out of the Wild: The Alaska Experiment” airs new episodes on Tuesdays April 14, 21 & 28 on the Discovery Channel at 9 p.m. Alaska time.
