Colton Hayn: My Dad Killed Himself Bee He Found Out I Was Gay

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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.

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COLTON HAYN CONFIRMS HE'S GAY: 'IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO GET TO THIS POT, BUT I'M DOG SO GOOD'

"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 haynes e 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.

COLTON HAYN: 'I WAS TOLD THAT MY DAD KILLED HIMSELF BEE HE FOUND OUT I WAS GAY'

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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.

COLTON HAYN WAS TOLD HE WAS 'TOO GAY' WHEN HE GOT TO HOLLYWOOD — AND WAS ACHED TO HI

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“Then, all of a sudn, I’m the worst, I’m a terrible person, and I’m a shame to the gay muny. In a new first-person say, Colton Hayn shar his experience of navigatg Hollywood as a gay teen and now actor, 33, om MTV’s Teen Wolf and the CW's Arrow, wr about his heartbreakg journey, g to L.

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.

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"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 haynes e gay *

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

Before Colton Hayn me to Hollywood, he was nfintly queer. Years of mixed msag the dtry changed that. “To be a gay actor Hollywood, even 2021, Hayn wr, is to be undated wh mixed msag.” * colton haynes e 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.

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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. 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.

COLTON HAYN SAYS HE ALMOST DIDN’T GET ‘TEEN WOLF’ ROLE OVER GAY MAG

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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.

COLTON HAYN COM OUT AS GAY: "I'M HAPPIER THAN I'VE EVER BEEN"

But I felt like I was lettg people down by not g forward wh the rt of what I should have 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, " Colton told Entertament Weekly at the time. "RELATED | Colton Hayn, Elt Glazer Are Workg On a TV Show About InstaGays.

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.

COLTON HAYN: MTV BOSS NEARLY REJECTED ME FROM ‘TEEN WOLF’ OVER PAST GAY PHOTOSHOOT

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 SAYS HE ALMOST WASN'T ST TEEN WOLF BEE OF GAY MEN'S MAGAZE SHOOT HE DID

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"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. 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 REVEALS HE'S GAY: 'I'M HAPPIER THAN I'VE EVER BEEN'

But lots of the cisn-makers are gay, so play that game! Colton publicly nfirmed his sexualy jt two weeks ago a magaze terviewByMay 20, 2016 8:39 PMTags Stephen Amell Supports Colton Hayne's Comg OutIf only every gay person stgglg wh their sexualy had a iend like Stephen Amell.

I sat down wh the actor earlier today while he was promotg his new movie Teenage Mutant Nja Turtl: Out of the Shadows ( theaters June 3) and asked him about his former Arrow -star Colton Hayn g out as gay a magaze article jt two weeks ago.

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. ” Co for gay.

COLTON HAYN SAYS HE IS GAY AND 'HAPPIER THAN EVER'

Clockwise om top left: 2006: Hayn’s photo shoot appears the gay men's magaze XY. 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. 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.

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