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Move in… or move on!
The contestants of lesbian dating show 'You Hauled.'YouTube (@YouHauled)Even in 2025, nearly all dating shows predominantly focus on straight, cisgender, and white cast members vying for love. Mainstream networks and streamers are slowly making some progress with all-queer seasons of Are You The One? on MTV, The Ultimatum: Queer Love on Netflix, For the Love of DILFs on OUTtv, and The Boyfriend on Netflix.
You Hauled is a brand-new queer dating show entering the scene with a premise that leans into the stereotype of lesbians falling in love quickly and moving in together (with a U-Haul) right away.
This lesbian dating series — with the brilliant tagline "move in or move on" — was created by Tori Davis with executive producers Davone Madison and PJ. This first season also features relationship expert Dr. Picolya McCall-Robinson, otherwise known as Dr. P., to help cast members navigate these relationships.
Scroll through to learn more about the contestants on You Hauled — coming soon to YouTube.
Alexis
Instagram: @alexis.hicks
Alexis says in the You Hauled intro video:
"'How did I come out?' What a juicy question. For me, it started with subtle things that I would post on my social media, like queer quotes, or photos of sexy women that could easily imply that I liked women. But it wasn't until 2022 [that I came out,] when I started dating my very serious girlfriend at the time. When I posted photos of us on my Instagram… like, boom. That's when the world found out. Distant family, distant friends, people that I grew up with who I maybe wouldn't communicate on a regular basis, [they all] now knew that I was into women."
"It really wasn't uncomfortable for me because I've always been confident in who I am. But I was just at a point where I was ready to put it on blast, so to speak. And I also had a lot of support from my father. He and I are very close, and he just supported me wholeheartedly from the jump. So that was amazing, and that definitely gave me a lot of confidence just to feel like full, and the choices that I was making as it relates to how I projected that onto the rest of the world."
"And I feel so validated in my love choices, and even helping to destigmatize within our Black community. Because there is still some [discomfort] when it comes to same-sex relationships. I feel like, by being my most authentic self, I'm doing my part in an authentic way. Love is love. I mean, women are amazing. I feel very confident in the choices that I make. I hope my next relationship with a woman will be my best one."
Big Ki
Instagram: @yu_nosyhuh
Big Ki says in the You Hauled intro video:
"I pretty much always dressed masculine. Always came with that, you know, big dick energy. I think my mom had a clue at a very young age for me. But, nosy as she is, she decided to go to my room one day, went through my closet… I think I was about 14 or 15 years old at the time. She went through my closet [and] found some love letters from a girl, and also found my strap."
"After that, she ain't ask no questions. She pretty much just accepted it for what it was. She understood the assignment. She knew that, at this point, 'I'm raising a stud.' So, yeah, I ain't really have to come out to my family. I've always, like I said, dressed masculine, so they kind of knew. They just didn't have that confirmation."
And best believe she told everybody. She told everybody: 'Ki is gay. Y'all better not try her. Y'all better not say nothing about my baby.' But yeah, that's pretty much how my family found out I was gay. Found my strap, man. That's why you've got to mind your business. Stay on your own business."
Cee Cee
Instagram: @sillyassceecee
Cee Cee says in the You Hauled intro video:
"7th grade year, my math teacher wrote on the board: homosexual, bisexual, and heterosexual. At the time, I'm still figuring things out. So I just blurted out, 'I'm bisexual, y'all!' Now, keep in mind I'm at a hood school, so everybody was like, 'What?' Like, 'Uhhh.' Like, 'Mmm-mmm, we ain't with that.' The next day, I came to school, and everybody was bullying me."
"But, eventually, they got on my wave, on my line. Like, they accepted it for what it was. ''Cause I was cool as hell, and I'm cool within the school or whatever. So they stopped bullying me because, otherwise… like, fight me, you feel me? But by the time I went 9th grade, I knew, like, 'Yeah, I only like girls.' Hell, I've been liking girls since I was in kindergarten. I think that's when I seen Jessica Rabbit. Yeah, I've been liking girls."
"Now how I came out to my mom was a whole different story. She took me to see my girlfriend's basketball game. Now, keep in mind, my first girlfriend was a stud. And no, I don't date studs no more. I was just trying to figure myself out. But yeah, she had seen me and a girl like writing little signs and stuff across the floor, and she was like, 'Come on, let's go, take it up. It's a wrap.' And she accepted it, but she was just like, she ain't buying me no boy clothes. So what I did… I got a job, got the boy clothes, got the hoes, you feel me? But, yeah, that's how I came out. Now everybody knows little gay-ass Cee Cee."
Dope Energy
Instagram: @_dopeenergy
Dope Energy says in the You Hauled intro video:
"It's your girl Dope Energy from You Hauled. How did I come out? Oooh, girl. Okay, so let's talk about the fact that I didn't even know I was gay, or at least I didn't know what it meant. I remember in 3rd grade, coming home, and telling my sister that this girl named Kendall was giving me a tingly feeling in my no-no spot. That's what we called it: no-no."
"And I was like hunting on my friends… You know, we play house. Everybody play house. But it wasn't until like 6th grade that I made my official come-out debut, [and] came out to my parents. And boy, do I regret it, okay?! The shit was… you would've thought I had committed the seven deadly sins, girl. I'm talking about having to read the Bible for 5 hours before dinner. I was no longer allowed to my uncle and aunt's house, and my girl cousins, because they was like a pastor and stuff."
"You know how super religious families can be, but it didn't keep me from being myself [or] wanting to go back in the closet. I came out, and I stayed out. I'm gay. I'm here to stay unapologetically. It was a little bumpy road, but I was able to discover myself. I went through all my little phases: stud, fem, and then I discovered that I was androgynous, you know? But yeah, I know I don't really have a long, drawn-out story. That's pretty much how it happened, girl."
Keo
Instagram: @yothatskeo
Keo says in the You Hauled intro video:
"Everybody wanna know: what's your coming out story? All right, I'll tell y'all mine. OK, so you know your girl poetic. I love music, you know, I'm an artist. Come on now. So I had to hit them with a poem, you know what I'm saying? So that's what I did. Being from Memphis, we're all about art. Come on now, y'all know this."
"So, I hit them with a poem. I was like, alright, let me get my thoughts and feelings out. Let me bake that up in a poem, whatever… go ahead and let it out. I wrote the poem about how I was feeling and stuff like that. [And then] hit up my best friend, like, 'Hey, I'm going through some stuff. I want to talk to you about some stuff. What time you got we could talk?'"
"We set a time for us to talk, went to the dorm room, and we talked. I read the poem to her and, you know, I did cry. I did, you know, talk to her, and she was like, I'm there for you as a friend and all that, and we're still best friends to this day, you know what I'm saying? Both of my best friends [since] 6th grade."
"And then, my mom, I FaceTime her, and I was like, 'Hey mom, I need to talk to you about something. I need your undivided attention. And then [I] read her the same poem through FaceTime, and then we had our little heart-to-heart moment and stuff like that."
"My mom and my best friend, to this day, like I love her or whatever, and she just had to come to terms with what I had told her and stuff like that. Learn to accept me, and love me, no matter what… because I'm her daughter, you know? I'm the only child on my mom's side. My dad got like 12 kids. But, you know, on my mom's side. But, yeah, that's how it was."
Omo
Instagram: @missomo.xo
Omo says in the You Hauled intro video:
"What's up y'all? My name is Omo, cast member of You Hauled. The first question that I've been tasked to answer is: 'How did you come out?' And a quick coming out story. So, I came out later on in life. I was 23 years old, and I had met this girl of my dreams… I thought. She was a stud, and we hit it off real, real bad. Anyway, I was like, you know, getting to the age where, in my culture, we want to bring people home. So I was like, 'Look, this is who I am.'"
"Well, let me backtrack. I called my mom, and I was like, 'Ma, I'm gay.' And she was like, 'Finally, you came out.' And I was like, 'Alright, cool, whatever.' So then I called my dad and my stepmom, and that was a whole different story, but now we're good. After I did all that, I went on Facebook and just made a post. I was like, 'Some people call me Omo, the homo, this, that, and the third… I don't care. Look, I like girls, and that's what it's gonna be.' And then people just came out with an amazing amount of support. And that's that, the rest is history."
Q
Instagram: @datninjaq
Q says in the You Hauled intro video:
"How did I come out? Yo, I didn't even get a chance to come out, you feel me? Allegedly, one of the homies from the block had told my mom, and then my mom had told me that one of my best friends from high school had called her up and told her… Yeah, some bullshit, right?"
"The same best friend that my mom told me about, had called me up on speakerphone with all our friends at her crib. It was like, 'Yeah, Q, you gay.' Mind you, this is 04. Like, in 2004, being gay wasn't cool, even though I'm not trying to be cool because I'm already cool. Anyway, moral of the story is: I never got the chance to come out. That was stolen from me, you feel me? And I come from a very religious background… like, straight bullshit."
Sö
Instagram: @_sozae
Sö says in the You Hauled intro video:
"What's up y'all? It's your girl, Sö, with You Hauled. 'How did I come out?' I never actually did, so that's something that I never really cared to talk about for real. I never had an actual sit-down or anything like that with anybody in my family. I kind of just always knew. I always dressed like a boy, wore boy clothes, had a masculine kind of presence. It wasn't really that hard to figure out since I was a little."
"I think that is something that I just am, right? I didn't think twice about it. I didn't have any second thoughts about it. It was just, 'That's just me. If you rock with it, you're rocking with it. If you're not, hit rocks.' So, Yeah, that's my coming out story."
Whitney
Instagram: @1xwheat
Whitney says in the You Hauled intro video:
"I had never told my family I was like into girls. But, of course, growing up, they suspected it because I played basketball. As soon as I touched the ball, they were like, 'You're gay.' But they couldn't confirm it. So, I'm like, 'I ain't gay, I ain't gay.' I went to get my first girlfriend, and I brought her home. One weekend, I was like, 'Yo, whatever you do… My family doesn't know I'm gay. So you can't be gay. You can't act gay. You can't smell gay. Don't talk gay. Like, nothing. Don't even hug me.'"
"When I'm going to the club that night, I came back home, and the whole ride home… I mean, we drunk too. She's talking and talking, right? She ain't about to do nothing, blah blah blah. We wind up pulling up in the yard. She's like, 'Oh, we're especially home now. I know you ain't doing that in your in front of your mama's house.' I'm like, 'Shit, snatch your ass over, 'cause I know me. You gonna talk that talk. I'm gonna, I'm gonna do what I do.'"
"We wind up just going in the front seat, and I wind up looking at the door. And I just see close real quick, and I'm like, 'Oh shit.' At this point, I'm like… There's no fucking way we're going back in this house. Like, we're driving to the nearest bridge, going off that motherfucker. We're going back to Northern Virginia. I don't give a damn. We go to space, but we're not going back in this house. I'm like, 'Yo, my mom is gonna trip.' So, we go in the house, and my mom didn't even really say nothing, which was scary as fuck for me."
"The next day, one of my brothers called me like, 'Yo, what's good with Shorty with you? She fine as hell, put me, put me down, put me on.' My brother, we're all headed to the family reunion. He's literally coming off of a highway exit and comes on the highway right beside me and my ex. He's like, 'Pull up. Yo, answer your phone.' I'm like, 'Oh fuck.'"
"I answered the phone and I pretty much just had to tell him at this point, 'cause he's trying to talk to a girl. And, yeah, he pretty much called my mom after that. And then my mom called me like, 'You got something to tell me?' I was like, 'No.' After that, I just was gay. I just came home with my girlfriends after that. 'Cause I was like, I mean, I know they know now, so."
Xiomara
Instagram: @prettytomb0y
Xiomara says You Hauled intro video:
"How did I come out? Honestly, I didn't come out. My brothers already knew. Everyone in my high school knew. I popped out with girlfriends. The only thing was, I had to tell my mom. And when I did, of course, she was flabbergasted. But, essentially, I didn't have to come out. Apparently, I just look gay."
