GAY HAYNES, LCSWA - Lepage Associat

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• GAY HAYNES, LCSWA
• COLTON HAYN WAS TOLD HE WAS 'TOO GAY' WHEN HE GOT TO HOLLYWOOD — AND WAS ACHED TO HI
• GAY HAYN · CLIL SOCIAL WORKER
• JOAQU PHOENIX’S NEXT PROJECT WILL BE AN NC-17 GAY LOVE STORY
• COLTON HAYN SAYS HE ALMOST WASN'T ST TEEN WOLF BEE OF GAY MEN'S MAGAZE SHOOT HE DID
• JOAQU PHOENIX TO TAKE ON GAY ROLE TODD HAYN’ NC-17 FILM & THE TER IS LOSG THEIR MDS
• JOAQU PHOENIX PHED TODD HAYN TO 'GO FURTHER' WH THEIR GAY PERD ROMANCE SO 'S NOW NC-17
• COLTON HAYN: 'I WAS TOLD THAT MY DAD KILLED HIMSELF BEE HE FOUND OUT I WAS GAY'

GAY HAYNES, LCSWA

In an emotnal Instagram post over the weekend, the 32-year-old actor shared an image of the March 2006 ver of XY Magaze, a long-nng, gay publitn. "Partly bee so many ppl Hollywood told me I would never work as an openly gay actor, but part of was bee I was credibly ashamed.

""Beg gay is worth celebratg, " Colton nclud his heartfelt post before wishg all of his followers and supporters a happy Pri Month.

After speculatn about his sexualy started circulatg onle, Colton cid to publicly and openly live his tth 2016, and sce then, he has regularly been bookg projects as a film and TV actor and has bee a great example of what means to be an out and proud gay man. But I felt like I was lettg people down by not g forward wh the rt of what I should have who are so judgmental about those who are gay or different don't realize that actg 24 hours a day is the most exhstg thg the world, " Colton told Entertament Weekly at the time.

COLTON HAYN WAS TOLD HE WAS 'TOO GAY' WHEN HE GOT TO HOLLYWOOD — AND WAS ACHED TO HI

"RELATED | Colton Hayn, Elt Glazer Are Workg On a TV Show About InstaGays. Gay Hayn is a Licensed Clil Social Work Associate North Carola. Interventn Style & Therapy Experience: Gay feels everyone has the pacy for change, and serv people om all walks of life.

Gay provis therapy office and via telehealth to dividuals ag 18 and olr. In addn, Gay pleted her specializatn ternship wh the De Dementia Fay Support Program and has also worked wh olr adults and fai as they navigate mentia related illns, regiver burnout and end-of-life issu. In therapy, Gay utiliz a person-centered approach while drawg om evince-based treatment mols, cludg Cognive Behavral Therapy, Dialectil Behavr Therapy, Acceptance and Commment Therapy and Mdfulns-Based therapi, she also rporat enthiasm, creativy, a sense of humor, and offers a non-judgmental safe space where clients n unpack and heal.

GAY HAYN · CLIL SOCIAL WORKER

Personal: Gay is a member of the Natnal Associatn of Social Workers, the Amerin Society on Agg, and is certified through Dementia Alliance of North Carola as a support group facilator. In a new first-person say, Colton Hayn shar his experience of navigatg Hollywood as a gay teen and now actor, 33, om MTV’s Teen Wolf and the CW's Arrow, wr about his heartbreakg journey, g to L. He faced moralizg experienc along the way — like beg ached to be ls gay and beg directed to act out graphic sex scen.

"To be a gay actor Hollywood, even 2021, is to be undated wh mixed msag: Consumers are mostly straight, so don’t alienate them, " Hayn, who officially me out 2016, wr a Vulture say. "But lots of the cisn-makers are gay, so play that game!

That year, he began go-go dancg at a gay bar Wicha and "felt at home there. " The next year, he got his first molg agent and he and his then-boyiend, Jay, posed for a gay magaze lled XY.

JOAQU PHOENIX’S NEXT PROJECT WILL BE AN NC-17 GAY LOVE STORY

Then the owner of a management pany, who Hayn lls "Brad" for the story, exprsed tert potentially reprentg immediately, Brad told Hayn, "We’re fely gog to have to change your mannerisms, " sayg the way the openly gay teen spoke and stood were too "theater, " which was " for gay. Gay, " Hayn was told.

He later looked at the ntact and was for “, " a se for sex said he knew beg an actor wouldn't be easy, but he didn't know that "the thg that ma me valuable private — my nspicuoly gay sexualy — was a liabily as I tried to make my way through the dtry. " Hayn set the scene for the time, the mid-ghts, "when sual homophobia was still a regular punch le on TV ss, Morn Fay wouldn’t premiere until a few years after I arrived L. There are still few gay leadg men Hollywood who are out of the closet.

I practiced speakg wh a fold Post- note unr my tongue to teach me to make my S sounds ls sibilant, sce the softns of them ma me sound gay.

COLTON HAYN SAYS HE ALMOST WASN'T ST TEEN WOLF BEE OF GAY MEN'S MAGAZE SHOOT HE DID

However, "I unrstood bee was explaed to me repeatedly — by managers, agents, publicists, executiv, producers — that the only thg standg between me and the reer I wanted was that I was gay. He said his handlers would "send cease-and-sist letters" to any webs that rurfaced his old XY gay magaze photo shoot pix. Now, the only dns I get are for gay characters, which rema sparse.

It’s no different for the young gay actors I see g up today, tryg to make a system that isn’t built for them. "He wrote about those "mixed msag" for gay actors Hollywood, and how he qutns where he would be — personally and profsnally — had he jt gotten to be himself when he arrived Hollywood stead of hidg the real him. Superstar didn’t circulate for long; Karen Carpenter’s brother and bandmate, Richard, succsfully sued for pyright gement – the film featur uncleared Carpenters mic throughout, and he was also enraged by his portrayal the film, sce Hayn suat that Richard, who was married to his first at the time, is gay – nsigng the 43-mute creative burst to cult-cur stat.

JOAQU PHOENIX TO TAKE ON GAY ROLE TODD HAYN’ NC-17 FILM & THE TER IS LOSG THEIR MDS

Joaqu Phoenix is takg up another notch after Ari Aster’s “Be Is Aaid, ” teamg up wh Todd Hayn for an NC-17-rated gay romance film.

JOAQU PHOENIX PHED TODD HAYN TO 'GO FURTHER' WH THEIR GAY PERD ROMANCE SO 'S NOW NC-17

It’s a gay love story set 1930s L. " Colton Hayn says Teen Wolf creator and shownner Jeff Davis fought for him to be st the show after MTV ught wd of a photo shoot he did for a gay men's magaze. In his new memoir, Miss Memory Lane, Hayn reflects on some of his earlier reer stggl as a gay man tryg to make Hollywood.

The actor, who publicly me out a 2016 terview wh EW, reunts growg up openly gay before gog back to the closet for his reer, sharg that he was told to nceal his sexualy so wouldn't hr job opportuni. " He shared the image for the first time on Instagram last year, wrg, "Beg gay is worth celebratg. If May December weren’t enough to exce gay movie buffs, Hayn let slip that he’s already got his ey on his next project.

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

Hayn, who is gay, is famed for some queer classics, Includg Far From Heaven, Carol and Velvet Goldme.