Colton Hayn opens up about the challeng of beg openly gay Hollywood.
Contents:
- COLTON HAYN CONFIRMS HE'S GAY: 'IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO GET TO THIS POT, BUT I'M DOG SO GOOD'
- COLTON HAYN: 'I WAS TOLD THAT MY DAD KILLED HIMSELF BEE HE FOUND OUT I WAS GAY'
- COLTON HAYN WAS TOLD HE WAS 'TOO GAY' WHEN HE GOT TO HOLLYWOOD — AND WAS ACHED TO HI
- COLTON HAYN SAYS HE'S STOPPED GETTG ROL SCE G OUT AS GAY
- COLTON HAYN WAS TOLD HE WAS 'TOO GAY' WHEN HE GOT TO HOLLYWOOD — AND WAS ACHED TO HI
- COLTON HAYN SAYS HE ALMOST DIDN’T GET ‘TEEN WOLF’ ROLE OVER GAY MAG
- COLTON HAYN: MTV BOSS NEARLY REJECTED ME FROM ‘TEEN WOLF’ OVER PAST GAY PHOTOSHOOT
- COLTON HAYN SAYS HE ALMOST WASN'T ST TEEN WOLF BEE OF GAY MEN'S MAGAZE SHOOT HE DID
- "I'M HAPPIER THAN I'VE EVER BEEN"COLTON HAYN CONFIRMS HE’S GAY
- COLTON HAYN SAYS HE IS GAY AND 'HAPPIER THAN EVER'
- 'ARROW' STAR COLTON HAYN OPENS UP ABOUT BEG GAY HOLLYWOOD
COLTON HAYN CONFIRMS HE'S GAY: 'IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO GET TO THIS POT, BUT I'M DOG SO GOOD'
"Beg gay is worth celebratg. I wish I’d figured that out sooner, but I’m so glad I know now." * colton hynes gay *
Colton Hayn Confirms He's Gay: 'It Took Me So Long to Get to This Pot, but I'm Dog So Good'. In this week’s issue of Entertament Weekly, the former Arrow star publicly addrsed his sexualy for the first time, officially g out as gay. Speculatn started January after he reblogged a fan’s Tumblr post about his “secret gay past” and rpond: “Was a secret?
“People who are so judgmental about those who are gay or different don’t realize that actg 24 hours a day is the most exhstg thg the world. Though Colton Hayn said that publicly g out as gay has ma him happier than ever, was a btersweet end to a longtime stggle that began at home.
’ But I was told that my dad killed himself bee he found out I was gay. Though Hayn has known that he was gay sce the first gra, he veiled his sexual orientatn for fear that would negatively impact his reer. “Then, all of a sudn, I’m the worst, I’m a terrible person, and I’m a shame to the gay muny.
COLTON HAYN: 'I WAS TOLD THAT MY DAD KILLED HIMSELF BEE HE FOUND OUT I WAS GAY'
"I often wonr how different thgs would’ve been if I were allowed to be who I was when I moved to town: a hopeful kid nfint his sexualy," he wr a new say about beg gay Hollywood. * colton hynes gay *
In an emotnal Instagram post over the weekend, the 32-year-old actor shared an image of the March 2006 ver of XY Magaze, a long-nng, gay publitn. "Partly bee so many ppl Hollywood told me I would never work as an openly gay actor, but part of was bee I was credibly ashamed. ""Beg gay is worth celebratg, " Colton nclud his heartfelt post before wishg all of his followers and supporters a happy Pri Month.
After speculatn about his sexualy started circulatg onle, Colton cid to publicly and openly live his tth 2016, and sce then, he has regularly been bookg projects as a film and TV actor and has bee a great example of what means to be an out and proud gay man.
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COLTON HAYN WAS TOLD HE WAS 'TOO GAY' WHEN HE GOT TO HOLLYWOOD — AND WAS ACHED TO HI
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He faced moralizg experienc along the way — like beg ached to be ls gay and beg directed to act out graphic sex scen. "To be a gay actor Hollywood, even 2021, is to be undated wh mixed msag: Consumers are mostly straight, so don’t alienate them, " Hayn, who officially me out 2016, wr a Vulture say. "But lots of the cisn-makers are gay, so play that game!
That year, he began go-go dancg at a gay bar Wicha and "felt at home there. " The next year, he got his first molg agent and he and his then-boyiend, Jay, posed for a gay magaze lled XY.
COLTON HAYN SAYS HE'S STOPPED GETTG ROL SCE G OUT AS GAY
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Then the owner of a management pany, who Hayn lls "Brad" for the story, exprsed tert potentially reprentg immediately, Brad told Hayn, "We’re fely gog to have to change your mannerisms, " sayg the way the openly gay teen spoke and stood were too "theater, " which was " for gay. Gay, " Hayn was told.
He later looked at the ntact and was for “, " a se for sex said he knew beg an actor wouldn't be easy, but he didn't know that "the thg that ma me valuable private — my nspicuoly gay sexualy — was a liabily as I tried to make my way through the dtry. " Hayn set the scene for the time, the mid-ghts, "when sual homophobia was still a regular punch le on TV ss, Morn Fay wouldn’t premiere until a few years after I arrived L. There are still few gay leadg men Hollywood who are out of the closet.
I practiced speakg wh a fold Post- note unr my tongue to teach me to make my S sounds ls sibilant, sce the softns of them ma me sound gay. However, "I unrstood bee was explaed to me repeatedly — by managers, agents, publicists, executiv, producers — that the only thg standg between me and the reer I wanted was that I was gay.
COLTON HAYN WAS TOLD HE WAS 'TOO GAY' WHEN HE GOT TO HOLLYWOOD — AND WAS ACHED TO HI
"I often wonr how different thgs would’ve been if I were allowed to be who I was when I moved to town: a hopeful kid nfint his sexualy," he wr a new say about beg gay Hollywood. * colton hynes gay *
He said his handlers would "send cease-and-sist letters" to any webs that rurfaced his old XY gay magaze photo shoot pix. Now, the only dns I get are for gay characters, which rema sparse.
It’s no different for the young gay actors I see g up today, tryg to make a system that isn’t built for them. "He wrote about those "mixed msag" for gay actors Hollywood, and how he qutns where he would be — personally and profsnally — had he jt gotten to be himself when he arrived Hollywood stead of hidg the real him. I began go-go dancg at a gay bar Wicha that same year — fake ID hand — after sneakg one night wh a few stmat om my muny-theater program.
When I got a msage on Myspace 2005 askg if my then-boyiend, Jay, and I would pose for a gay magaze lled XY, I didn’t thk twice.
COLTON HAYN SAYS HE ALMOST DIDN’T GET ‘TEEN WOLF’ ROLE OVER GAY MAG
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Your voice, your mannerisms — they’re still too … gay. The thg that ma me valuable private — my nspicuoly gay sexualy — was a liabily as I tried to make my way through the dtry.
COLTON HAYN: MTV BOSS NEARLY REJECTED ME FROM ‘TEEN WOLF’ OVER PAST GAY PHOTOSHOOT
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This was an era when sual homophobia was still a regular punch le on TV ss. (She mt have known I was gay, but we never spoke about . I unrstood bee was explaed to me repeatedly — by managers, agents, publicists, executiv, producers — that the only thg standg between me and the reer I wanted was that I was gay.
I’m eternally grateful to the handful of gay men who created opportuni for me: Jeff Davis, Greg Berlanti, and Ryan Murphy.
But people also published thk piec sayg had taken me too long; another gay actor implied the way I’d done was wardly. To be a gay actor Hollywood, even 2021, is to be undated wh mixed msag: Consumers are mostly straight, so don’t alienate them.
COLTON HAYN SAYS HE ALMOST WASN'T ST TEEN WOLF BEE OF GAY MEN'S MAGAZE SHOOT HE DID
In his new memoir, Colton Hayn reveals he almost wasn't st 'Teen Wolf' bee of a past shoot he did for a gay men's magaze. * colton hynes gay *
But lots of the cisn-makers are gay, so play that game! On some level, he had been right: I was too gay. In high school, he attend class durg the day and at night danced as a go-go boy at a gay bar (a job secured wh a fake ID).
His looks, you know, he looks like a star, but his mannerisms and the way he sounds, too gay.
"I'M HAPPIER THAN I'VE EVER BEEN"COLTON HAYN CONFIRMS HE’S GAY
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He says the parts sudnly dried up: "I am offered only rol like the 'gay bt iend' today.
Of urse, he not, some thgs haven't improved: "Name one lead out leadg actor, male romantic lead who's openly gay? Colton Hayn, who is bt known for playg Jackson Teen Wolf and Arsenal Arrow, publicly me out as gay 2016. Colton Hayn has opened up about beg gay the actg dtry and how hard 's been to fd rol sce he me 2016, Colton Hayn publicly me out as gay after mours about his sexualy and photos om his past surfaced onle.
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"Now, Colton has revealed how that cisn has impacted his reer and lled out Hollywood for failg gay MORE: Teen Wolf revival movie nfirmed wh origal st returng. Colton Hayn says he's stopped gettg rol sce g out as gay. "The 33-year-old ntued: "It’s no different for the young gay actors I see g up today, tryg to make a system that isn’t built for them.
“I was a senr high school and I told her that she was beg a ltle homophobic.
Asked if his team that was helpg keep him the closet at that time clud gay people, Hayn says, “100 percent for sure. “What I was dog was — I was tellg everyone else who was gay or whoever wanted to e out that they uldn’t unls they acted how I was and that was such a hard thg to realize.
'ARROW' STAR COLTON HAYN OPENS UP ABOUT BEG GAY HOLLYWOOD
They thk will jt be a book about molg and about me beg gay, but ’s so much eper than that. "Teen Wolf" actor Colton Hayn revealed that he was almost not st the MTV show bee the head of the channel did not like that he had appeared a gay magaze. The 33-year-old revealed that he was nearly not st the MTV adaptatn bee a work executive did not like that he had participated a photo shoot for gay magaze, XY.
Hayn — who is openly gay — wrote his newly released memoir, “Miss Memory Lane, ” that he was told to nceal his sexualy as would hr his abily to get actg jobs. Partly bee so many ppl Hollywood told me I would never work as an openly gay actor, but part of was bee I was credibly ashamed. “Beg gay is worth celebratg.