Tayshia Adams reacts to Colton Unrwood g 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.

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

Unrwood revealed he was gay durg a nversatn wh Rob Roberts on Good Morng Ameri, which aired on Wednday. Tia Booth is showg her support for former flg Colton Unrwood after he me 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.

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

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.

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

A gay “Bachelor, ” though? 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.

FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

“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. “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.

TIA BOOTH REACTS TO COLTON UNRWOOD COMG OUT AS GAY

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.

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.

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

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. Though he felt that he was different at the age of 6, Unrwood never got the chance to teract wh gay people.

TIA BOOTH REACTS TO COLTON UNRWOOD POPPG OUT AS GAY

“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. “Gay porn was sort of what I gravated towards, ” Unrwood adms, clenchg his jaw.

At the time, Unrwood nied beg gay to his father. 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. 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.

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

“By the time I realized that I was gay, I didn’t want to be gay.

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

’” Unrwood says of his gay enunters. But producers have ma sure not to jt foc on whe privileged gay men.

In the seri, Unrwood will explore his posn of privilege, partly thanks to Kenworthy, who is featured by his si as someone who n relate to Unrwood’s experience, as a gay athlete who me out the spotlight. “He’s been somebody that I’ve not only learned so much om, but he’s held me acuntable and he’s allowed me to see the privilege of beg a straight-prentg gay, whe man, ” Unrwood says of Kenworthy. “Here he is, a cisgenr whe man who out as gay, and he gets a show, ” says Garcia.

He wish his son wouldn’t live his entire life the public eye, but he se the impact his Netflix seri may have on fai who abandon their children for beg gay. “My dad is proud to say that he is a nservative Republin, and he is also proud to say, I have a gay son, ” Unrwood says. Demi Burt ma sensive ments about Colton Unrwood beg gay on Bachelor In Paradise season 7.

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

Fans are tung to watch Bachelor In Paradise season 7 to tch up on all the romance, the drama, and the trigue, but Demi Burt's recent ments about Colton Unrwood beg gay are beg perceived as negative LGBTQ+ reprentatn. Although Demi's queer storyle on Bachelor In Paradise season 6 was revolutnary for the seri, her recent ments about gay The Bachelor star Colton Unrwood are exposg some of the realy show's flaws. As is the se for most LGBTQ+ people, Colton's journey toward owng his inty as a gay man was a long and harrowg one.

In April 2021, Colton me out as gay to Bachelor Natn durg an terview wh ABC's Good Morng Ameri. Even though Colton didn't have the opportuny to be openly gay on The Bachelor, his prence the anchise is validatn enough for the queer dienc who are eager to see themselv reprented on the show. In a recent episo of Bachelor In Paradise, nttant Demi ma a dig at her petor Tia at the expense of Colton's gay inty.

Mockg Tia's past relatnship wh Colton, Demi sffed, "The only thg worse than Tia's gaydar is her nim shorts. " Demi's ments are sensive as they unrme the experience Colton unrwent supprsg his sexualy and make light of how meangful Colton's gay inty is to The Bachelor's queer fanbase.

COLTON UNRWOOD APOLOGIZ TO CASSIE RANDOLPH AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Colton even sred an unscripted seri of his own at Netflix shortly after he announced his gay inty. Demi's mockg ments about Colton's gay inty are wrong as they discred the work he's recently done to make The Bachelor a more queer-iendly space.

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

Colton Unrwood is ready to live his former "Bachelor" star me out as gay an exclive terview wh Rob Roberts on "Good Morng Ameri" on Wednday. "And I'm gay. "When Roberts, who is also openly gay, said she uld "see the joy" and "see the relief" Unrwood, he said he was "emotnal , like such a good, happy, posive way, " and is "the happit and healthit" he's ever been.

Unrwood said he went through a "dark and bad" time before feelg like he uld reveal this about himself and his "wake up ll" was feelg like he "would've rather died" than say he's gay. It took until high school for him to realize he "was more attracted to the boys and the men" than he was the oppose grown up the Catholic church, he remembered he "learned the Bible that gay is a s" Catholic gra school.