“Jeopardy,” the formerly staid doyen of TV game shows, is in the midst of a queer renaissance - one Canadian hall-of-famer Mattea Roach is proud to be part of.
She hasn't made a big thing out of her sexuality, but nor is it a secret. Her Twitter bio, which reads “lesbian, Nova Scotian, 19x Jeopardy champ,” was deliberately crafted to satisfy viewers' curiosity because she figured people might wonder.
She thought the tweet was perhaps a little clumsy - “I'm not teaching only lesbians or teaching people how to be a lesbian,” she said - but otherwise harmless, though she appreciated that people came to her defence.“There's been a lot of queer and trans representation on the show lately,” Roach said. “People become more comfortable sharing those parts of themselves on a show like 'Jeopardy!' as culture has changed.
“As somebody who is not the most feminine presenting and who has also been criticized before for not really fitting the mould of what a woman should look like, to see somebody else who's a member of the LGBT community being the best woman by far was really, really special for me,” Roach said. “I just felt so lucky to have gotten to - in the run up to me taping the show - watch someone go on who was so dominant, who played the game her own way,” Roach said. “It strengthened my resolve that I was going to appear on the show and not really compromise in any way: my personality, the way that I dress, the way that I present myself, anything like that.”
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