Comedian Billy Eichner once told Colton Unrwood that he uld be "the first gay Bachelor." Now, their nversatn has gone viral after Unrwood me out.
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- 'BACHELOR' COLTON UNRWOOD'S GAY REVEAL PLIT HIS PAST — BUT DON'T ERASE
- OPEN MENUVIOSHOPWELLNSFOODCULTUREFAYLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICY — YOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS — CHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICY — INTERT-BASED ADS — TERMS OF USE — DO NOT SELL MY INFO — CONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHSHOP TOP MIC AND D PRODUCTS, OM SPEAKERS TO KARAOKE MICS, HEADPHON AND MORECULTURETHE BACHELORAPRIL 14, 2021FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
- FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD: ‘I’M GAY’
- ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, BE GAY’: BILLY EICHNER REACTS TO THAT VIRAL COLTON UNRWOOD VIO
- COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
'BACHELOR' COLTON UNRWOOD'S GAY REVEAL PLIT HIS PAST — BUT DON'T ERASE
Former 'Bachelor' star Colton Unrwood me out as gay; that don't erase his past behavr, cludg harassment allegatns * colton gray gay *
"I have been gay my entire life, sce I was a child. Though some of that live big ci n feel like half of the world is gay, 's a stark difference om many livg small towns. "I was takg my mom somewhere one day and she jt asked 'are you gay?
OPEN MENUVIOSHOPWELLNSFOODCULTUREFAYLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICY — YOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS — CHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICY — INTERT-BASED ADS — TERMS OF USE — DO NOT SELL MY INFO — CONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHSHOP TOP MIC AND D PRODUCTS, OM SPEAKERS TO KARAOKE MICS, HEADPHON AND MORECULTURETHE BACHELORAPRIL 14, 2021FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
Former "Bachelor" star Colton Unrwood me out as gay an exclive terview wh Rob Roberts on "Good Morng Ameri." * colton gray gay *
"I was so sred of what actually meant to ll yourself gay so even the first man I dated, I still thought that afterwards I was gog to eventually meet a girl and get married bee that's what men did, " he said. "But I was steadfast that like 'I'm gay and I probably shouldn't have been talg to someone that was 20 but I'm not gog to therapy, '" he said. Apparently Bex Banks was the last to fd out he was gay.
Though he was engaged gay sex, he didn't intify as gay.
At age 21, his mom had enouugh and mand an explatn for the gay porn she was fdg on the puter and phone. "Once I had the nversatn wh my mom, I had no problem sayg I was gay, " he said.
FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD: ‘I’M GAY’
Colton Unrwood told Rob Roberts on “Good Morng Ameri” that he is gay an terview that aired Wednday morng. * colton gray gay *
"I was actually rehab when I was 16 years old and I thk a part of why I end up gog to rehab was the difficulty I had wh acceptg myself as a gay person, " Sharok said. For him, beg gay was a ath sentence beg that he grew up the 1990s durg the HIV/AIDS epimic and a fay member died of the disease. "At that pot was kd of like an emotnal avalanche and I jt let all out and told her that I was gay.
" Fran said that while they have grown to accept him, his fay still believ he shouldn't act on his homosexualy. " At the time, Zevran was a gogo dancer performg gay clubs. “There was qutns there, ” he admted, sayg that when he was young he had Googled, “Am I gay?
‘IF YOU’RE GAY, BE GAY’: BILLY EICHNER REACTS TO THAT VIRAL COLTON UNRWOOD VIO
I’m gay and I me to terms wh that earlier this year, " he told rponse to the revelatns has been predictably msy and tratg to wa disurse has largely spl to two mps: Colton Unrwood is Good or Colton Unrwood is tth is, of urse, somewhere between. Should he really be jumpg immediately to the public sphere as a gay in figurehead — and profg off of that role, as he will reportedly be dog a new Netflix doceri?
) My clatn is to say probably uld qutn the homophobia and misogyny that still fd their way to so many locker Unrwood do have a platform, one that uld make a difference if he uld qutn the strgent and hateful, harmful moral judgments of the relig stutns he was brought up . He uld qutn the prevailg and eply harmful cultural nceptn of “tradnal” masculy — a brand of masculy that is often prented opposn to uld qutn the homophobia and misogyny that still fd their way to so many locker rooms. He uld qutn the way men are raised to view women as objects and tools of their own personal uld qutn why cis, whe, gay men are still so often at the foreont of queer reprentatn popular uld even qutn the anchise that is so wedd to heterosexualy the public imagatn that beg st as s lead ma him feel like he had found a shortcut to livg as a straight man.
COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
13:36Former 'Bachelor' Colton Unrwood speaks his tth and out as gayColton Unrwood is ready to live his tth. "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.