'Bachelor' Colton Unrwood's gay reveal plit his past — but don't erase

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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

"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?

"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.

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

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.

FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD: ‘I’M GAY’

"Once I had the nversatn wh my mom, I had no problem sayg I was gay, " he said.

‘IF YOU’RE GAY, BE GAY’: BILLY EICHNER REACTS TO THAT VIRAL COLTON UNRWOOD VIO

"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? 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.

COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY

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.