From 'Fay Secrets' to 'Half Brothers,' star Juan Pablo Esposa blaz a gay trail - 48 hills

Contents:

• JUAN PABLO DI FATHER WANTS HIM TO GET MARRIED AND HAVE KIDS WHO COM OUT AS GAY PUBLICLY
• JUAN PABLO DI PACE SAYS HE FELT IT WAS HIS 'RPONSIBILY' TO PUBLICLY COME OUT AS GAY
• EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: HALF BROTHERS STAR JUAN PABLO ESPOSA ON BEG THE GAY ROLE MOL HE NEVER HAD “GROWG UP COLOMBIA A VERY MACHO CULTURE THERE WAS ALWAYS THIS STIGMA AROUND BEG GAY”
• FROM ‘FAY SECRETS’ TO ‘HALF BROTHERS,’ STAR JUAN PABLO ESPOSA BLAZ A GAY TRAIL
• JUAN PABLO GUTIéRREZ: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A LATO GAY ARTIST, ADVOTE
• ASí SE VE GERóNIMO: EL HIJO JUAN PABLO ÁNGEL QUE FUE CRIDO POR CLARARSE ABIERTAMENTE GAY
• JUAN PABLO DI PACE AND PETER PORTE DCRIBE THE EMOTNAL MOMENT THEY WATCHED THEMSELV PLAY A GAY MAN ON SCREEN FOR THE FIRST TIME

JUAN PABLO DI FATHER WANTS HIM TO GET MARRIED AND HAVE KIDS WHO COM OUT AS GAY PUBLICLY

Argente actor Juan Pablo Di Pace me out as gay publicly after feelg that was his rponsibily to let people know the tth. The Buenos Air native revealed his sexualy durg a TedX Talk, rerd March 2019 and released on YouTube late June, which also happens to be Pri the YouTube vio, tled “The Story of Your Life, ” Di Pace opened up that he realized was okay to be gay after he was offered the role of J Christ  the NBC seri A.

He explaed that he had been lled an anti-gay slur when he was a child, and that moment forever shaped his abily to accept his own inty.

It’s not like this is a secret that all of a sudn I need to brg out to the Pace, born on July 25, 1979, to parents Victor Di Pace and Marta Maeri, has not revealed any of his relatnship tails yet - whether he had any gay partners or boyiends. Juan Pablo Di Pace is openg up about why he felt was his “rponsibily” to publicly e out as gay.

JUAN PABLO DI PACE SAYS HE FELT IT WAS HIS 'RPONSIBILY' TO PUBLICLY COME OUT AS GAY

In the clip, tled “The Story of Your Life, ” Di Pace, who was born Argenta, revealed he had been lled an anti-gay slur as a child and that moment had forever shaped his abily to accept his own inty. The Bible Contu that he realized was okay to be gay.

The Queer Review’s edor Jam Klemann had an exclive chat wh Juan Pablo Esposa about why beg offered a role like this Half Brothers was so rehg, what might ronate wh LGBTQ+ dienc about the film, how Oprah and a movg direct msage om a gay fan spired him to e out on social media and why he admir and intifi wh Ricky Mart.

EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: HALF BROTHERS STAR JUAN PABLO ESPOSA ON BEG THE GAY ROLE MOL HE NEVER HAD “GROWG UP COLOMBIA A VERY MACHO CULTURE THERE WAS ALWAYS THIS STIGMA AROUND BEG GAY”

In my se growg up Colombia a very macho culture there was always this stigma around beg gay. Whenever I thought about the possibily of beg an actor, was always like, oh well, you uld never be an actor and be gay, you know, that’s jt not the way works. I never stopped gog out, I would go to gay bars or go to gay clubs, and I would have a boyiend at the time, was very relaxed.

’ And then I realised that as a ltle boy who went to an all boys Catholic High School, full of guilt, full of qutns, full of fear, all the ncerns that I mentned earlier, like beg sgled out, or beg rejected or judged, I thk what I really need was a reference of somebody who uld be gay and still have a perfectly normal life and be happy. It tore my heart bee I unrstood that you n follow me on Instagram and see photos of flowers and sunsets and of a happy life, but I was leavg one thg asi and wasn’t nsc, but I wasn’t talkg about my life and I wasn’t talkg about beg a gay man. “I thought was somethg very simple, I jt upload this vio talkg about some of the same thgs I’m sayg to you now and sayg that I wanted everybody to know that I’m gay and that ’s wonrful and I’m very grateful.

All we n do is strive to be the bt versns of ourselv and that for me is tryg to be the bt gay man that I n be, tryg to be the bt actor that I n be, tryg to be the bt son, partner, and brother.

FROM ‘FAY SECRETS’ TO ‘HALF BROTHERS,’ STAR JUAN PABLO ESPOSA BLAZ A GAY TRAIL

Before him, when I was tryg to figure out my life I didn’t have a reference of another gay man who I uld intify wh as a Lato. A lot of tim when I would try to thk of somebody that I saw my everyday life who was gay and who had a perfectly normal and lovg life I uldn’t thk of anybody at that time, pecially the 80s, to be hont, somebody that was talkg about all the thgs. As well as Ricky, when Ellen DeGener me out and I was still livg outsi of the Stat Colombia to actually thk that a woman uld e out and say that she was gay and still have succs and have her edy and her show was credible to me then.

JUAN PABLO GUTIéRREZ: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A LATO GAY ARTIST, ADVOTE

Juan Pablo Esposa n’t help but chuckle when rememberg the time that he was voted least likely to play a credible gay man. It starts 2010 wh his gut role on Secretos Faia—or Fay Secrets—a Colombian telenovela, on which he played his first gay role.

He dove to and was, fact, so fortable on set that he found himself schoolg the director and his fellow stmat on how a gay uple would act certa sceners—a rare feat for a gay Lat-Amerin actor at the time. So he was surprised when a major gossip magaze released a rear’s poll, which Esposa and three of his fellow actors were grad on how well they played gay—and he me last. “I gus I was not gay enough, ” Esposa says.

“But what do mean to be gay? He’s gay. Esposa hop to see more gay rol that don’t play to stereotyp.

ASí SE VE GERóNIMO: EL HIJO JUAN PABLO ÁNGEL QUE FUE CRIDO POR CLARARSE ABIERTAMENTE GAY

Yet seems like announcg that you’re gay on social media last year hasn’t hurt your reer at all. I lived a perfectly out life Bogota, gog to every gay bar and club.

JUAN PABLO DI PACE AND PETER PORTE DCRIBE THE EMOTNAL MOMENT THEY WATCHED THEMSELV PLAY A GAY MAN ON SCREEN FOR THE FIRST TIME

I know that as a child, I uld have really ed a reference to someone, like ‘He’s gay, happy, and dog what he lov life and his fay.