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• COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
• FORMER BACHELOR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
• COLTON UNRWOOD, FORMER NFL PROSPECT AND BACHELOR, NOW SAYS HE IS GAY AFTER SAYG LAST YEAR HE WASN’T
• COLTON UNRWOOD, FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR, OUT AS GAY
• IT’S TIME FOR AN ACTUALLY GAY SEASON OF THE BACHELOR ALREADY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY

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

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FORMER BACHELOR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

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COLTON UNRWOOD, FORMER NFL PROSPECT AND BACHELOR, NOW SAYS HE IS GAY AFTER SAYG LAST YEAR HE WASN’T

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COLTON UNRWOOD, FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR, OUT AS GAY

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IT’S TIME FOR AN ACTUALLY GAY SEASON OF THE BACHELOR ALREADY

“Growg up sports, I was tght that gay is wrong and gay is bad and football players are not gay, ” Unrwood said. “By the time I realized that I was gay, I didn’t want to be gay.

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In a Good Morng Ameri terview on Wednday, the former football player turned star of season 23 of The Bachelor told Rob Roberts that he is gay.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

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" In his 2020 memoir The First Time: Fdg Myself and Lookg for Love on Realy TV, Unrwood wrote about alg wh mors that he was gay durg his senr year high school.

Later the book he med, "Sometim I wonr if my life would have been much easier if I had been gay.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

UPDATE April 14, 2021: Colton Unrwood now says he’s gay. The former NFL prospect, who had practice squad stts wh the Philalphia Eagl and Oakland Rairs, shared on GMA that he is fact gay, after sayg last year that he wasn’t gay. Reports are that a doceri followg Unrwood as he navigat his early days of gay life will air on Netflix.

Out gay skier G Kenworthy is reportedly volved.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY

PREVIOUS POST April 2, 2020: When people hear about Colton Unrwood’s journey to beg straight, a lot of people will roll their ey and say “gay gay gay. The Bachelor nttant and former llege football player and NFL prospect reportedly opens up a new book about beg a virg his 20s and qutng for years whether he’s gay.