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• BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
• BOY BAND STAR DUNN JAM ‘PROUD TO BE GAY’
• BACKSTREET BOYS' A.J. MCLEAN TALKS GAY BAND MEMBERS, BEG A 'FAG HAG'
• INTERVIEW: RICKY REBEL ON BEG CLOSETED A BOY BAND, GAY MICIANS AND BEG THE "NEW ALPHA" STAR

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

The mastream populary of boy bands wtern mic almost ensur that one or two members of each group intifi as gay, bisexual or queer. Most out gay boy band members talk about their early reer days of havg dual personas - the public heterosexual teen male, and the private gay dividual - creatg an thenticy paradox. There have been sporadic attempts to create succsful all-gay boy bands to ter to the LGBTQ dance club crowd.

Neverthels, there is a group of notable boy band members who publicly intify as gay, bisexual or queer. Boy band star Dunn Jam ‘proud to be gay’He was a teen heart-throb the early noughti — now Blue sger Dunn Jam is showg off the man who mak him “proud to be gay” Jam said he’s “proud to be gay” as he posted a picture of himself sied up wh Brazilian boyiend Rodrigo Reis.

BOY BAND STAR DUNN JAM ‘PROUD TO BE GAY’

”The 41-year-old star thanked fans for the “amazg” support and “love” sce he me wrote: “I didn’t intify as a gay man for many years bee of my own issu wh g out, but fally im happy my sk & this guy next 2 me mak me proud 2 be gay. ” RELATED: Boy band Blue clar bankptcyDunn said 2009 he was bisexual and me out as gay 2012, tellg his Blue bandmate Simon explaed: “When I told Simon, he enuraged me to speak to my mum, who was LA wh me a hotel at the time. “She said, ‘You’re gay?

”Earlier this year, Dunn told Brish TV show Loose Women that g out as gay was the “bt thg he ever did” after years of “livg a lie”, who has a 14-year-old dghter lled Tiane om a prev relatnship, first started postg pictur of Rodrigo a month ago when they went to Amsterdam’s Tropikali Ftival.

For as long there have been boy bands, there have been gay or bisexual boy band members. Sger Dunn Jam, who has a dghter wh an ex-girliend, first me out as bisexual 2009 but later clarified that he is gay, acknowledgg a Brish TV documentary that he had a three-year relatnship wh one of Blue's hunky male backup dancers.

BACKSTREET BOYS' A.J. MCLEAN TALKS GAY BAND MEMBERS, BEG A 'FAG HAG'

He also admted he was so sred people would fd out he was gay that he dated women, even havg sex wh some of them, which was, ultimately, what broke up his relatnship wh his dancer boyiend: "I broke his heart to the pot where he uldn't be wh me that way anymore and end .

Lead sger L McKeown told filmmakers he had lived a secret gay life for more than 30 years, even keepg his pas om his wife of 25 years, Peko McKeown. The band unter-sued for $25 ln and ultimately got to keep their name, wh the su beg settled out of 2006, Lance me out as gay on the ver of People magaze, and durg the group's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony 2018, he opened up about stgglg to accept his sexualy durg his time the band. "So many nights on stage, I'd see so many young, gay fans sgg their hearts out and I wanted so badly to let you know, I was you, " Lance said.

So, I was like, 'I'm gay. "If you me out, if anyone knew you were gay, was a disaster and people really flipped out.

INTERVIEW: RICKY REBEL ON BEG CLOSETED A BOY BAND, GAY MICIANS AND BEG THE "NEW ALPHA" STAR

I felt like if anyone found out that I was gay, the rerd label would immediately drop and the fans would hate —the were all the crazy thgs that went through my head as a teenager. "The guys would hate me, and they would leave the group and be like 'We're not gog to be a group wh a gay guy. InstagramIn 2012's New Kids on the Block: Five Brothers and a Milln Sisters, Jonathan nfirmed his ex om NKOTB was due to his anxiety, and also hidg his sexualy, publicly g out as gay after he was accintally outed by '80s pop star and his ex-girliend Tiffany 2011.