| Gay, Straight or Taken? | |
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| Genre | Reality television |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 18 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Joe Livecchi |
| Production locations | Los Angeles, California |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company | Endemol USA |
| Original release | |
| Network | Lifetime |
| Release | January 8 – March 12, 2007 |
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Gay, Straight or Taken? is an American reality television series broadcast by Lifetime. The series premiered on January 8, 2007, and its eighteenth and final episode aired on March 12, 2007. Filmed in Los Angeles, California, each episode depicted a straight single woman going on a group date with three men. Among the men, one is straight and single, one is straight and partnered, and the other is gay and partnered. At the end of the date, the woman was required to discern which of the men she believed to be straight and single. If she correctly chose the straight single man, the two would win an all-expenses-paid vacation together; if she chose one of the other two men, that man would receive the vacation with his own partner.
Gay, Straight or Taken? was initially conceived in 2003 following a rising interest in LGBT-themed reality shows. The series was passed on by ITV, before being green-lit by Lifetime in 2006. The series garnered generally positive reviews from television critics. Many critics positively contrasted the series' portrayal of gay men from that of Boy Meets Boy and Playing It Straight, however, others deemed the series to be dull. Gay, Straight or Taken? premiered with decent television ratings for Lifetime, although its average viewers tapered over the course of the series, in which it averaged approximately one million viewers.