Cast
| Cast Member | Age1 | Hometown | Stats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elka Walker | 19 | Brownsville, Texas | Elka is a Mexican-American who comes from a well-to-do background with conservative values. She says in the casting special that she doesn't know many gay or lesbian people and wasn't sure how she would feel if one of the roommates was gay. She is still struggling with her mother's death from cancer. Before she leaves for Boston Elka's father requires her to sign a contract saying she will not smoke, do drugs, or have premarital sex while in Boston. She is later filmed having a cigarette. She gets her eyebrow pierced against her father's wishes, and she finally stands up for herself against his controlling ways in a tear-filled phone conversation later in the season. Her boyfriend Walter visits from Ireland. The housemates expect she will have sex with him, but Elka insists she is a virgin and will stay that way until marriage. |
| Jason Cornwell | 24 | Boulder, Colorado | Jason is a poet with a girlfriend named Timber. The relationship is tumultuous, and Genesis expresses displeasure at how Jason talks to Timber. Jason is not faithful to her in Boston. |
| Montana McGlynn | 21 | Manhattan, New York | Named for a character in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five, Montana is an atheist, fond of science, and an ardent feminist. She is committed to her boyfriend Vaj, but he later discovers she is seeing other men while in Boston. He later breaks up with her by sending her a page. While she is surprised by this, her housemates are not. Later, she is fired from her volunteer job for allowing children to take sips of alcohol while on a field trip, which the children corroborate, despite Montana's denials. She subsequently seeks out other volunteer work. |
| Genesis Moss | 20 | Gulfport, Mississippi | Genesis is a lesbian with a troubled past and says during her childhood she sometimes lacked basics like food. She has a long-distance lover. She becomes friends with a gay drag queen named Adam and spends a lot of time dancing/partying at a gay club. She is in tears when a child at the daycare center says she hates gay people. Kameelah explains to the child that it's wrong to hate gay people. |
| Sean Duffy | 25 | Hayward, Wisconsin | Sean is a conservative Republican and an aspiring lawyer who competes in lumberjack competitions. He often clashes with the liberal-minded Kameelah. He later says he feels for Genesis because she is so hard on herself. |
| Kameelah Phillips | 19 | San Diego, California | Kameelah is a student at Stanford University. Like Montana, she never knew her father. She tells her mother she is not having sex, but the housemates hear what sounds to them like her and a man having sex in the house. She threatens to "knock out" Elka in an argument at the daycare, for which she and Elka are both reprimanded. |
| Syrus Yarbrough | 25 | Santa Monica, California | Syrus is named after the Egyptian god Osiris and is an African-American. Syrus gets in trouble for dating a mother of one of the kids. The director tells Syrus to cease this immediately. Syrus acknowledges this, but keeps dating the mother a little while longer. |
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