It's LGBTQ Pri Month 2022. TODAY Show talked wh Lance Bass who remembers tryg to "pray the gay away" as a young boy growg up a Mississippi town.
Contents:
- DANIELLE FISHEL REVEALS WHICH NSYNC MEMBER TOLD HER LANCE BASS WAS GAY WHILE THEY WERE DATG
- THE AWKWARD WAY NSYNC'S JOEY FATONE FOUND OUT LANCE BASS WAS GAY
- LANCE BASS IS THE FIRST N'SYNC MEMBER TO ADM HE'S GAY
- WHICH OF THE BOY BANRS NKOTB AND NSYNC ARE GAY?
- EVERYONE ‘N SYNC IS GAY
- LANCE BASS ‘GOT CALLED GAY EVERY SGLE DAY’ WHILE HE WAS IN *NSYNC
- LANCE BASS REVEALS WHY HE DIDN'T COME OUT AS GAY DURG *NSYNC
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
- WHY LANCE BASS WAS TERRIFIED TO E OUT AS GAY TO HIS PARENTS
DANIELLE FISHEL REVEALS WHICH NSYNC MEMBER TOLD HER LANCE BASS WAS GAY WHILE THEY WERE DATG
Lance Bass rells how he me out as gay to his 'N Sync band members, and Joey Fatone "walkg " on him wh his then-boyiend by surprise * nsync gay members *
Lance Bass' plan on how he would e out as gay to his 'N Sync band members didn't exactly go acrdg to plan. I have so many gay iends — I don't re. CelebryLGBTQ+ Joy For All“Boy Meets World” Star Danielle Fishel And Lance Bass Jt Reflected On Their Yearlong Romance And Revealed They’re Turng Their Relatnship Into A MovieLance me out as gay four years after NSYNC went on hiat — and six years after he broke Boy Meets World star Danielle Fishel’s on Augt 30, 2022, 4:08 pm.
Lance ntued to exclively date women until he was 22 years old, but 2006 — four years after NSYNC went on a hiat — Lance me out as gay a ver story for People magaze. His cisn to open up about his sexualy me amid mountg speculatn, wh Lance beg pictured at gay bars and clubs by the paparazzi the weeks leadg up to to the terview.
THE AWKWARD WAY NSYNC'S JOEY FATONE FOUND OUT LANCE BASS WAS GAY
Lance me out as gay four years after NSYNC went on hiat — and six years after he broke <i>Boy Meets World</i> star Danielle Fishel’s heart. * nsync gay members *
The sger admted that he didn’t thk that he would ever be able to “act on beg gay, ” and that his management and rerd label lay down the law on what he uld and uldn’t say and do public. Discsg the breakdown of Lance’s relatnship wh Danielle, her podst host Will Friedle asked: “When you broke up wh her, had you told yourself yet that you were gay? I had realized that y, I wasn’t to girls, but also — my head — there was no way I would ever act on beg gay.
“They’d disguise a way … If they knew that I was gay, then they wouldn’t say, ‘Hey, if you’re gay, don’t e out. “So I knew beg out gay was fely not gonna be [an optn.
Durg the chat, Danielle revealed that several people — cludg her mother — had speculated about Lance’s sexualy after he dumped her, but bee beg gay was a much more taboo topic back the '90s, she didn’t believe them. “Other people said to me, ‘Danielle, Lance is gay, ’ before Lance did and were really tryg to tell me, like, If you n’t see , that’s what’s gog on, and was such a thg back then, Lance was so private about and… You were forced to be the closet, ” she shared. “Even for me, someone sayg to me, ‘It’s actually that he’s gay, ’ I was like, ‘Well, no, that’s not possible, ’ bee wasn’t as accepted, wasn’t as mon, was like everyone was sayg that [so I’d] thk ’s not me.
LANCE BASS IS THE FIRST N'SYNC MEMBER TO ADM HE'S GAY
Joey Fatone and Lance Bass brought their stunng athleticism to Battle of the Network Stars, and the two NSYNC stars relled the awkward moment that Fatone found out Bass was gay. "We were hangg out at a club one time," said Fatone, "and we went back to his hoe to hang out and party and drk some more. I passed out his gut bedroom. I woke up at, like, 3:00 or 4:00 the morng. I'm like, 'Damn. I got to go home.' So I went to go to his room. I knock on his door, I open up. And one of his 'iends' was stg on his lap." The story was all good fun and Fatone was sure to mentn that the two were fely not naked. Fatone said to them, "Uh, let me know when you're done," before shuttg the door and leavg. Although Fat9he had figured out Bass's secret he didn't out his iend bee Bass wanted to tell others his own time. In the 90s was a lot ls easy to be openly gay, pecially while the public eye, but lookg back, Bass might have changed a thg or two sayg, "If I was givg advice to my 16-year-old self, I would say, 'Go ahead and be yourself right now. Don't worry about what other people thk of you or what they say about you.' I wish I would have realized that I was gay at such a young age and been able to be fortable wh , to tell everyone, bee my experience wh NSYNC, I thk, would have been pletely different." * nsync gay members *
It didn’t matter that Lance was gay and that I was not gog to end up marryg him, we have mataed a iendship through all the years. RS: Did you ever, at any pot, have any spicns that Lance was gay? Chris Kirkpatrick would say, “You know your boyiend’s gay, right?
WHICH OF THE BOY BANRS NKOTB AND NSYNC ARE GAY?
Well here’s a shocker: One of the N’Sync boys is gay. I’d jt assumed they all were. Former N’Sync member Lance Bass me out of the closet a recent terview wh Peopl * nsync gay members *
” She said, “Do you thk there’s any possibily that Lance might be gay?
I don’t thk there’s any possibily that he’s gay. RS: How did that make you feel at the time, the realizatn that he might have been gay, and how did make you feel after he publicly me out 2006?
That followg year, I started hearg om other people that Lance had, some way, let them know that he was gay. I jt wanted to let you know that I’m gay. I thk wasn’t until a lot later, when I uld read ments on the ter where people were like, “Oh, Danielle turned him gay, ” that thought even entered my md.
EVERYONE ‘N SYNC IS GAY
I met a NKOTB limo driver years ago who said that they all were gay except Donnie. Jon om NKOTB and Lance om NSYNC have e out but what about the rt? Has anyone hooked up wh one of them? * nsync gay members *
” I know that Lance really believed that our relatnship had enough of the quali that uld have lasted, that would have worked, and so I didn’t ever feel like him tellg me he was gay was any sort of reflectn on me.
LANCE BASS ‘GOT CALLED GAY EVERY SGLE DAY’ WHILE HE WAS IN *NSYNC
Dealg wh his sexualy was difficult for Lance Bass while he was a boy band. In a new terview wh Yahoo! Entertament, the former *NSYNC sger opens up about what was like beg gay and the closet early his reer. [readmore label="READ MORE: " lk="; text="Lance Bass Fds Out He Is Sixth… * nsync gay members *
Jt the way that the whole world perceived gay people kept me the closet, and pecially beg a bs like the mic dtry, which is very homophobic, there was no way I wanted to tell a sgle soul. I thought that I uld live a whole life jt ignorg the fact that I was gay. I grew up a church where you pray the gay away, and you n’t be gay, but the lson you learn is y, you might, might have gay feelgs, but you jt nnot act on .
As long as you don’t act on , that means you’re not gay. My whole teenage life, I knew that was gog to be my path: y, I knew I was gay, but I would be able to hi and supprs bee that’s what I’m supposed to do.
She mentned that ocsnally, Chris Kirkpatrick would make jib about your sexualy at the time or ll you her gay boyiend, so were there nversatns about wh the band? Lance Bass: No, the only time they ever mentned to me anythg gay, was on the set of “It’s Gog To Be Me.
LANCE BASS REVEALS WHY HE DIDN'T COME OUT AS GAY DURG *NSYNC
Lance Bass recently relled the first time that fellow *NSYNC member Chris Kirkpatrick wonred if he uld be gay. * nsync gay members *
He go, “Are you gay?
No, I’m not gay. Wh John, I thk was a ltle easier, pecially the public eye, bee the early Neti, and late Eighti, no one was talkg about people beg gay, really.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. * nsync gay members *
So many people have that same prom story where they took their gay boyiend and fally me out. I jt felt like, when this relatnship end, that was gog to a lot of my relatnships bee I didn’t know if they were gog to be like, “Wa, that means he’s gay. He’s a hundred percent gay, ” or, “how uld he be such an asshole?
WHY LANCE BASS WAS TERRIFIED TO E OUT AS GAY TO HIS PARENTS
I thk this generatn don’t want to be lied to, pecially about beg gay. I thk jt people n see through a fake relatnship, pecially when to beg gay, and I thk people would be very disappoted to fd out that you were hidg somethg like that and dog this for publicy. Joey Fatone and Lance Bass brought their stunng athleticism to Battle of the Network Stars, and the two NSYNC stars relled the awkward moment that Fatone found out Bass was gay.
In the 90s was a lot ls easy to be openly gay, pecially while the public eye, but lookg back, Bass might have changed a thg or two sayg, "If I was givg advice to my 16-year-old self, I would say, 'Go ahead and be yourself right now. ' I wish I would have realized that I was gay at such a young age and been able to be fortable wh , to tell everyone, bee my experience wh NSYNC, I thk, would have been pletely different. Lance Bass ma big headl 2006, however, when he me out as gay.