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.
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- LANCE BASS: I'M GAY
- HOW LANCE BASS HEALED HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS PARENTS AFTER G OUT AS GAY
- DANIELLE FISHEL REVEALS WHICH NSYNC MEMBER TOLD HER LANCE BASS WAS GAY WHILE THEY WERE DATG
- GAY BASS
- GAY BASS
- IS LANCE BASS MARRIED? IS LANCE BASS GAY?
LANCE BASS: I'M GAY
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Lance Bass, the former ‘N Sync heartthrob, reveals that he is gay an exclive terview wh PEOPLE.
“I knew that I was this popular band and I had four other guys’ reers my hand, and I knew that if I ever acted on or even said (that I was gay), would overpower everythg, ” says Bass, referrg to bandmat Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, JC Chasez and Jt Timberlake.
HOW LANCE BASS HEALED HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS PARENTS AFTER G OUT AS GAY
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“He took years to really thk about how he was gog to tell everyone, ” says his close buddy Fatone, 29, who was the first ‘N Sync bandmate to fd out Bass is gay.
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“We knew that we wanted to be very open and transparent wh our experience bee we wanted gay upl to be able to relate to and say, ‘Oh my gosh, we’re gog through that too. Lance Bass remembers tryg to "pray the gay away" as a 5-year-old boy growg up a small Mississippi town.
“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. "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?
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“It was the first time I’d told a stranger I was gay and felt amazg. 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. Their attu was ‘Fe, we don’t need you our life, ’” Bass years ago, 2014, Diane spoke ont of her ngregatn about her journey as a Southern Baptist wh a gay child.
IS LANCE BASS MARRIED? IS LANCE BASS GAY?
“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.