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Nyle DiMarco's Messy New Reality Series Explores Dating While Deaf

Dating is messy, and the groundbreaking new reality show offers an unprecedented look into the high, lows, and hookups of people in the Deaf community.

Taylor Henderson

Taylor Henderson is a PRIDE.com contributor. This proud Texas Bama studied Media Production/Studies and Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin, where he developed his passions for pop culture, writing, and videography. He's absolutely obsessed with Beyoncé, mangoes, and cheesy YA novels that allow him to vicariously experience the teen years he spent in the closet. He's also writing one!

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September 30 2020 3:18 PM EST

December 09 2022 9:12 AM EST

Model and activist Nyle DiMarco is the executive producer of Deaf U, a groundbreaking new reality series showcasing the lives of a group of Deaf students attending Gallaudet University, a private college for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Washington, D.C.

\u201cChief Marketing and Undergraduate Admissions Officer Brandi Rarus shares additional details and #GallaudetU's role with the new upcoming @Netflix show, Deaf U. \n\nRead the full letter\ud83d\udcc3: https://t.co/AFpo9pYrCC \nGU's #DeafU website\ud83d\udcbb: https://t.co/qwNcMMIIho\u201d
— Gallaudet University (@Gallaudet University) 1601491374

"As the group of friends navigate the high, lows, and hookups of college life together, their stories offer an unprecedented, unfiltered, and often unexpected look inside Deaf community," the official description of the show reads.

Watching the trailer, it's clear almost immediately we've never seen a show like this before. The two-minute peek dives into issues of identity, obstacles Deaf people face in the hearing world, preservation of culture and community, and perhaps the most explicitly, sex and dating.

"Gallaudet's undergrads are 700 women and 300 guys," one queer girl explains. "And the women here are just wow."

Deaf Upremieres October 9 on Netflix. Watch the trailer below!