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 *

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.

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 *

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.

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 *

“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. 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?

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 *

Chris Kirkpatrick would say, “You know your boyiend’s gay, right?

” 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.

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 *

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.

” 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. 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.

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 *

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.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

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He go, “Are you gay? No, I’m not gay.

WHY LANCE BASS WAS TERRIFIED TO E OUT AS GAY TO HIS PARENTS

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. So many people have that same prom story where they took their gay boyiend and fally me out.

Lance Bass: How He Healed His Relatnship Wh His Relig Parents After Comg Out As Gay

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DANIELLE FISHEL REVEALS WHICH NSYNC MEMBER TOLD HER LANCE BASS WAS GAY WHILE THEY WERE DATG