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FORMER SURVIVOR CASTMATE J.P. CALRON: I’M GAY

Although his activi and around gay people and nightlife were wily reported, former Survivor: Cook Islands staway J.P. Calron (seen below wh openly gay stmate Brad Virata) had never e out publicly. That will apparently happen on this Wednday's episo of The Janice Dickson Molg Agency, acrdg to Instct magaze, for which he do a ver shoot durg the episo. "It’s not every day somebody gets slapped the face wh a major magaze like Instct, Janice Dickson, her TV show. I thk I’m jt supposed to do this!" says Calron. "I'm g out and I'm livg." Of the self-scribed world's first supermol, Calron says, "We started a ltle b buttg heads, but I love Janice Dickson. I want everyone to know, she is the olt person the world." The episo airs this Wednday, January 24 on Oxygen, and Calron is featured on Instct's Febary issue. You n see the ver for that issue, after the jump... * brad survivor cook islands gay *

Although his activi and around gay people and nightlife were wily reported, former Survivor: Cook Islands staway J. Calron (seen below wh openly gay stmate Brad Virata) had never e out publicly.

Virata me to terms wh his sexualy when he was a junr llege, acceptg the fact he was gay. 'Jt the fact that he didn't re [ that I was gay] really meant a lot to me.

Virata, the youngt of five ( two olr brothers and two olr sisters) is the only gay fay member. 'For the most part, I haven't had a bad experience wh beg gay, ' he said.

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I wanted to reprent the Asian muny a posive light, but also wanted to reprent the gay and lbian muny a posive light, ' he said. 'Que often the media, gays are portrayed a stereotypil way. I wanted to break the mold a ltle, to show the rt of Ameri that gays n be athletic, articulate, ol people, on and off the island.

I'm not ashamed of beg gay, not at all. Virata add that ' [ a] lot of the stigma [ about homosexualy] and the negative portrayal of gay people the media is simply bee of a lack of unrstandg and ignorance.

Pl, what they often see is a flamboyant drag queen on a float the middle of Gay Pri San Francis.

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