Jacqueline Cutler For someone who enjoys working into a conversation that he once dated Raquel Welch and Priscilla Presley, Nigel Lythgoe leaves little doubt that he is a straight man. He is, though, that rarest of straight men: a dancer and a true ally of the LGBTQIA-plus community.As a boy who started taking dance class in 1959, he came of age when people openly mocked male dancers.