Tia Booth Reacts to Colton Unrwood Comg Out as Gay

Contents:

• TIA BOOTH REACTS TO FORMER ‘BACHELOR PARADISE’ FLG COLTON UNRWOOD COMG OUT AS GAY
• COLTON UNRWOOD'S FORMER FLG TIA BOOTH SAYS 'LOVE WHO YOU WANNA LOVE' AFTER HE COM OUT AS GAY
• COLTON UNRWOOD, THE FIRST GAY ‘BACHELOR,’ CONONTS HIS CONTROVERSIAL COMG OUT
• FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
• TIA BOOTH REACTS TO COLTON UNRWOOD COMG OUT AS GAY
• COLTON UNRWOOD REALIZED HE WAS GAY HIGH SCHOOL: I TRIED TO ‘FORCE MYSELF TO BE STRAIGHT’
• TIA BOOTH REACTS TO COLTON UNRWOOD POPPG OUT AS GAY
• BACHELOR'' NATN STARS REACT TO COLTON UNRWOOD COMG OUT AS GAY: 'YOU HAVE MY LOVE AND SUPPORT'
• COLTON HAYN: 'I WAS TOLD THAT MY DAD KILLED HIMSELF BEE HE FOUND OUT I WAS GAY'
• BACHELOR: HOW THE WOMEN FROM COLTON'S SEASON REACTED TO HIM BEG GAY
• COLTON UNRWOOD APOLOGIZ TO CASSIE RANDOLPH AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• COLTON UNRWOOD, FIRST ‘BACHELOR’ STAR TO E OUT AS GAY, SAYS HE WAS BLACKMAILED

TIA BOOTH REACTS TO FORMER ‘BACHELOR PARADISE’ FLG COLTON UNRWOOD COMG OUT AS GAY

Tia Booth fally spoke out after her ex Colton Unrwood me out as gay.

“Bachelor Paradise” alum Tia Booth clapped back at social media trolls who lled her out for stayg silent after her ex Colton Unrwood me out as gay.

COLTON UNRWOOD'S FORMER FLG TIA BOOTH SAYS 'LOVE WHO YOU WANNA LOVE' AFTER HE COM OUT AS GAY

“And I’m gay. Tia Booth addrsed fans urgg her to speak out after her ex Colton Unrwood me out as gay.

COLTON UNRWOOD, THE FIRST GAY ‘BACHELOR,’ CONONTS HIS CONTROVERSIAL COMG OUT

Unrwood revealed he was gay durg a nversatn wh Rob Roberts on Good Morng Ameri, which aired on Wednday.

FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

Tia Booth is showg her support for former flg Colton Unrwood after he me out as gay.

TIA BOOTH REACTS TO COLTON UNRWOOD COMG OUT AS GAY

Unrwood, who has also been lked to Aly Raisman and Lucy Hale, me out as gay durg an terview wh Rob Roberts that aired on Good Morng Ameri April 14. I've hated myself for a long time, and I'm gay. Colton Unrwood didn’t plan on ever tellg the world that he was gay.

“I’ll jt say , ” Unrwood reveals on a recent afternoon, still adjtg to his new life as an openly gay man. Acrdg to him, last year, while livg Los Angel, he secretly vised a spa known for terg to gay clientele. At one time, g out of the closet was emed a reer killer, but shows like “The Real World, ” “Survivor” and the origal “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, ” now rebooted on Netflix, led to a profound, posive transformatn how gay people are perceived, and helped brg about progrsive chang to LGBTQ civil rights.

As new generatns of lennials and Gen Zers have grown up wh LGBTQ iends and role mols, gay Amerins have attaed the right to marry, and queerns has bee more mastream media, as proven shows like HBO’s high school h “Euphoria” and sentially half of the characters the Ryan Murphy universe. A gay “Bachelor, ” though?

COLTON UNRWOOD REALIZED HE WAS GAY HIGH SCHOOL: I TRIED TO ‘FORCE MYSELF TO BE STRAIGHT’

His announcement that he was gay cid wh news that he was filmg a Netflix realy show about his new life. And others legimately argued that as a hunky whe gay man, he was benefg om privilege, takg a platform that other members of the queer muny served more than he did. “If you’re gay, be gay!

“I had never seen a football player that had ma to the NFL that had been gay, growg up Catholic.

TIA BOOTH REACTS TO COLTON UNRWOOD POPPG OUT AS GAY

“I’ve had hundreds of gay Christian men and women who are nfed their walk wh J say, ‘I felt closer to God when I me out. “I never want people to thk that I’m g out to change the narrative, or to bsh over and not take rponsibily for my actns, and now that I have this gay life that I don’t have to addrs my past as a straight man, ” Unrwood says.

Cled to ment for this story, or answer qutns about whether there have been discsns about velopg a gay season of “The Bachelor. Realy TV has the power to change mds, showsg unrreprented muni to sectns of the untry who might not e across gay, bisexual or transgenr people their everyday liv.

The number of high-profile gay love stori at the movi — among them, the Hulu romantic edy “Happit Season” and 2017 Sundance darlg “Call Me by Your Name” — remas small. It’s rare to see a full-fledged gay love story, or hts of gay romance, on a realy TV show.

BACHELOR'' NATN STARS REACT TO COLTON UNRWOOD COMG OUT AS GAY: 'YOU HAVE MY LOVE AND SUPPORT'

When Lance Bass, who is openly gay, appeared on the program 2008, he was paired wh a female partner. Unrwood’s faced mons as a closeted gay man. For Unrwood, growg up Washgton, Ill., wh a populatn of 15, 000, there were no gay role mols.

“We had one gay person my entire town, ” Unrwood says.

COLTON HAYN: 'I WAS TOLD THAT MY DAD KILLED HIMSELF BEE HE FOUND OUT I WAS GAY'

Though he felt that he was different at the age of 6, Unrwood never got the chance to teract wh gay people. “I would have done anythg to see a gay football player, ” he says, gettg choked up. He ed a iend’s Blockbter rd to rent the movie, so that no one his fay would spect him of beg gay.

BACHELOR: HOW THE WOMEN FROM COLTON'S SEASON REACTED TO HIM BEG GAY

“Gay porn was sort of what I gravated towards, ” Unrwood adms, clenchg his jaw. At the time, Unrwood nied beg gay to his father.

COLTON UNRWOOD APOLOGIZ TO CASSIE RANDOLPH AFTER G OUT AS GAY

He remembers that when Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player drafted by the NFL 2014, no one the locker room supported the ia.

COLTON UNRWOOD, FIRST ‘BACHELOR’ STAR TO E OUT AS GAY, SAYS HE WAS BLACKMAILED

Their homophobia only drove him eper to the closet.

“Growg up sports, I was tght that gay is wrong and gay is bad and football players are not gay, ” Unrwood says.

“By the time I realized that I was gay, I didn’t want to be gay. ’” Unrwood says of his gay enunters.