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I met a NKOTB limo driver years ago who said that they all were gay except Donnie. Jon om NKOTB and Lance om NSYNC have e out but what about the rt? Has anyone hooked up wh one of them?

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BACKSTREET BOYS' A.J. MCLEAN TALKS GAY BAND MEMBERS, BEG A 'FAG HAG'

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" The 35-year-old McLean, who married 2011 and is the father of a ltle girl, long supported equal rights and the band's gay fan base. "We have a huge gay followg -- 's awome, " he told Out magaze back 2010. "I, personally, am tryg to get more and more volved wh the gay and lbian movement, very much so.

BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER

I've got que a lot of gay iends back L. And we make our mic for everyone, and whether you're gay, straight, black, whe, don't matter. I have a lot of gay iends and two of my bt iends have been together for almost 10 years.

We have a huge gay followg and ’s a huge al. When were the Backstreet Boys first aware they had a gay followg?

Kev (Richardson) was obvly olr, so he had been around all his gays at Disney (when he worked there before Backstreet Boys) and he had been around drag queens before Nick (Carter) and me. I was bi myself, and that was when we first knew that we had a big gay followg.

WHY THIS BACKSTREET BOY HOP HIS DGHTERS ARE GAY

” Thkg back on , I’ve been this bs sce I was 3 and I grew up mil theater, so I was raised and surround by gay men and gay women. Everyone always says, “When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay. Instead of me beg gay, I’m the fag hag.

What do you thk of all the tert and hope om fans that there is a gay member the Backstreet Boys? He’s this olr gentleman om Tampa and he’s gay, and he’s been followg durg this whole tour om Cha to Japan and now through the U. Who’s lour: a bunch of screamg girls or a bunch of screamg gays?

Unfortunately, people that get bullied as much as some of the fans of ours have, or many of the young gay teens that got bulled to mtg suici, there a pot where starts on the other end – starts on the bully si. I hope that the young teens, or even full-grown gay men and gay women that are still stgglg wh bullyg and still stgglg wh beg looked down upon, know that you n do this as long as you surround yourself wh the right people and believe yourself and stay te to who you are.

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THE ALBUM VER FEATURED THE MOST ATTRACTIVE MEN THAT I HAD EVER SEEN ALL MY NE YEARS OF LIFE. IN THIRD GRA I BARELY KNEW WHAT POP MIC WAS, LET ALONE SEXUAL SIRE, BUT THE IMAGE GAVE ME URG THAT FIED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I WAS SURE OF ONE THG: I HAD TO KEEP MY LOVE FOR KEV, HOWIE, BRIAN, A.J., AND NICK A SECRET. HOW WOULD I EXPLA TO MY CATHOLIC, MEXIN-AMERIN PARENTS THAT I WANTED MY OWN PY OF THE RERD THAT MY OLR SISTER PLAYED CSANTLY HER ANTI-SKIP PORTABLE CD PLAYER? THAT I WANTED TO GAWK AT THE Y PRETTY BOYS TRYG WAY TOO HARD TO LOOK TOUGH?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE BT PART ABOUT THAT ALBUM IS THAT WAS EVERYWHERE. DUE TO THE SIZE AND NVENIENCE OF CDS, I NEVER ULD PE THE PHOTO THAT SIGNALED MY EARLY SEXUAL ATTRACTN TO MEN. I SOON UNRSTOOD I SHARED THE SAME YEARNGS AS MY FEMALE IENDS, AND THOUGH THIS REALIZATN WAS UNSETTLG AT FIRST, MAND AN ANSWER: DID I LIKE BOYS?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“AS LONG AS YOU LOVE ME” REMAS ONE OF MY FAVORE BACKSTREET BOY SONGS. IN THE MIC VIO, BETIFUL FEMALE MOLS PE AFTER THE BOYS DURG A PHOTOSHOOT, WHILE EACH SGER GIV A HEARTFELT SOLO BEFORE JOG TOGETHER FOR THEIR INIC FOLDG CHAIR DANCE. IT WAS UNNIABLY CHEY, GRA-A ’90S MP, BUT I WAS SOLD, AND MY HEART PULSED WHEN THE CHOS ME: I DON’T RE WHO YOU ARE, WHERE YOU’RE OM, WHAT YOU DID, AS LONG AS YOU LOVE ME. 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Lookg back, I clearly misread José’s platonic feelgs, like many gay kids do when they’re tryg to get a handle of new and strange sexual sir. My gay journey began 20 years ago, and I n only thank the bleached hair and rgo pants of the Backstreet Boys for showg me s Brian, I’m still wag for your ll. The mastream populary of boy bands wtern mic almost ensur that one or two members of each group intifi as gay, bisexual or queer.

AJ MCLEAN: THE GAY TERVIEW

Most out gay boy band members talk about their early reer days of havg dual personas - the public heterosexual teen male, and the private gay dividual - creatg an thenticy paradox.

WHO WAS GAY THE BACKSTREET BOYS BOY BAND?

There have been sporadic attempts to create succsful all-gay boy bands to ter to the LGBTQ dance club crowd.

Neverthels, there is a group of notable boy band members who publicly intify as gay, bisexual or queer. The 35-year-old boy banr is soundg off on everythg om gay marriage, the band's gay fan base, drsg drag (remember that 2012 photo shoot? "Thkg back on , I've been this bs sce I was 3 and I grew up mil theater, so I was raised and surround by gay men and gay women, " McLean said.

"Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay, '" he said, addg, "No, they don't. Instead of me beg gay, I'm the f-g hag. "When asked what feels like for gay fans to want one or more of the Backstreet Boys members to be gay, McLean ghed, "I thk 's awome.

WHICH OF THE BOY BANRS NKOTB AND NSYNC ARE GAY?

"I have a lot of gay iends and two of my bt iends have been together for almost 10 years. He told how beg a father has helped him stay sober, and why he hop that both his girls are gay bee "tak the penis out of his life. “So my wife got to name our first, and my wife is a big fan of old Hollywood so Ava was named after —"“"I hope that both of my dghters are gay bee that tak all penis out of my life.

I will also go on rerd by sayg, and I told my wife this, I hope that both of my dghters are gay bee that tak all penis out of my life — I do not want to al wh boys ever. AJ McLean, far left, embrac the gay fans of Backstreet Boys.

Kev [Richardson] was obvly olr, so he had been around all his gays at Disney [when he worked there before Backstreet Boys] and he had been around drag queens before Nick [Carter] and me. Unfortunately, people that get bullied as much as some of the fans of ours have, or many of the young gay teens that got bulled to mtg suici, there a pot where starts on the other end — starts on the bully si.

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