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Contents:

• WHY LANCE BASS WAS TERRIFIED TO E OUT AS GAY TO HIS PARENTS
• THE AWKWARD WAY NSYNC'S JOEY FATONE FOUND OUT LANCE BASS WAS GAY
• DANIELLE FISHEL REVEALS WHICH NSYNC MEMBER TOLD HER LANCE BASS WAS GAY WHILE THEY WERE DATG
• LANCE BASS IS THE FIRST N'SYNC MEMBER TO ADM HE'S GAY
• BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
• N SYNC MEMBER WHO LATER BEME A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST CROSSWORD CLUE
• LANCE BASS: 'I THOUGHT I'D NEVER BE ABLE TO TELL ANYONE' I WAS GAY
• LANCE BASS: I'M GAY
• WHICH OF THE BOY BANRS NKOTB AND NSYNC ARE GAY?
• LANCE BASS REVEALS WHY HE DIDN'T COME OUT AS GAY DURG *NSYNC

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

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. Lance Bass remembers tryg to "pray the gay away" as a 5-year-old boy growg up a small Mississippi town.

THE AWKWARD WAY NSYNC'S JOEY FATONE FOUND OUT LANCE BASS WAS GAY

“I was tght that homosexualy is a s and you have to fix .

You hear so many horror stori — pecially the south — of fai rejectg their gay kids.

Bass me out as gay 2006. Related: 6 thgs to do before your gay kid outTo protect himself and his reer, Bass beme "the shy one" the group, he relled.

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

"In 2006, Bass was enjoyg a night out at gay bar Provcetown, Massachetts, a popular vatn statn for the LGBTQ muny. “I was wag on le for the bathroom and this guy regnized me and says, ‘You’re gay? “It was the first time I’d told a stranger I was gay and felt amazg.

LANCE BASS IS THE FIRST N'SYNC MEMBER TO ADM HE'S GAY

Related: Lance Bass shar how he me out to Brney SpearsAt that pot, only a few people, cludg Bass’s sister, Stacy, knew that he was gay. “She’s a teacher and she immediately started readg everythg about beg gay, ” Bass said. “It was a lot of ‘you n pray the gay away, ’” Bass said.

Once she realized there was a lot of false rmatn out there, she started talkg to different pastors that accepted gay people. Eight years ago, 2014, Diane spoke ont of her ngregatn about her journey as a Southern Baptist wh a gay child.

“The miracle is that I learned to have unndnal love and passn for my son and others the gay muny. “Not only has she accepted the fact that I’m gay, but she celebrat , " Bass said. 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.

BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER

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. 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 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.

N SYNC MEMBER WHO LATER BEME A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST CROSSWORD CLUE

“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.

LANCE BASS: 'I THOUGHT I'D NEVER BE ABLE TO TELL ANYONE' I WAS GAY

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: I'M GAY

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? ” 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.

WHICH OF THE BOY BANRS NKOTB AND NSYNC ARE 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?

LANCE BASS REVEALS WHY HE DIDN'T COME OUT AS GAY DURG *NSYNC

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. ” 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.