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Former Bachelorette Hannah Brown discs datg Colton Unrwood on The Bachelor before he me out as gay.

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COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY

After g out as gay 2021, former 'Bachelor' star Colton Unrwood is engaged to boyiend Jordan C. Brown * der bachelor gay *

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe 29-year-old former football player had wrten about qutng his sexualy a memoir, published Shotwell/Invisn, via Richard Shotwell, via Invisn, via Associated PrsColton Unrwood, a star of “The Bachelor” and a former football player, me out as gay an terview wh Rob Roberts that aired Wednday on “Good Morng Ameri. And I’m gay.

“I would have rather died than say, ‘I’m gay. “‘You know, Colt, we’d still love you and support you if you were gay, ’” he relled his mother tellg father was more nontatnal.

“He’d pulled up the history of recent Google search, which clud gay porn s and a variety of qutns: ‘Am I gay? How do you know if you’re gay?

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)In s 20 years, the anchise has never featured an all-gay st. The former Bachelor nttant me out as gay April 2021 and has been attached to Brown sce last fall. Unrwood then me out as gay April 2021 an terview wh Rob Roberts on Good Morng Ameri, and went on to star on Netflix docu-seri Comg Out Colton, tracg Unrwood's own g out journey and teractns wh other notable gay public figur.

He was the first lead of The Bachelor anchise to e out as gay. Related ntent: Former Bachelor Colton Unrwood out as gayStars celebrate newly out Bachelor alum Colton Unrwood: 'You're ee now'Why Comg Out Colton is a major fumble Episo Reps Zach on the season fale of The Bachelor S27 E10 Rep The Bachelor fale rep: Zach go om 'eak-out mo' to pickg a fiancée By Kristen Baldw The Bachelor rep. Could there be a gay season of “The Bachelor?

“Ok let’s see a gay Bachelor season, ” wrote one Twter er rponse to the news.

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“So now, obvly, do a long overdue gay Bachelor season, ” posted another.

“Now give the season we serve wh a gay bachelor please, ” said @anahigu.

IT’S TIME FOR AN ACTUALLY GAY SEASON OF THE BACHELOR ALREADY

I see a glimmer of hope for the gay Bachelor season that we all so sperately serve.

To everyone sayg he should get another season and be the first gay bachelor- are you fettg how he treated Cassie?? But at least one supporter saw the news g — and suggted there’s already been a season of “Gay Bachelor. ” In a clip rurfaced Wednday, “Billy on the Street” host Billy Eichner suggted that Unrwood was the first gay Bachelor whout even knowg .

Former "Bachelor" star Colton Unrwood has e out as gay. ”In his 2020 memoir "The First Time: Fdg Myself and Lookg for Love on Realy TV" (a cheeky reference to Unrwood's much-discsed virgy throughout his appearanc on "The Bachelorette, " "Bachelor Paradise" and then "The Bachelor"), Unrwood explored stanc of self-disvery throughout his life, om re-learng his inty after his football reer to qutng his one pot the book, he wonred if his hancy to sleep wh his high school girliend meant he was gay.

DID THE BACHELOR CONTTANTS KNOW COLTON UNRWOOD WAS GAY DURG FILMG? HANNAH BROWN SPEAKS OUT

"Maybe (if I had been gay) would have helped me to know myself better and sooner. " Reflectg on his past to "GMA, " Unrwood said growg up the Catholic church and playg football (where a bad play would sometim be dubbed "gay" as a way of sultg the player) ma difficult for him to accept who he was, though he had an klg that he was different by the time he was 6 years were tim durg his self-disvery that he fell to a "dark" place and sometim grappled wh suicidal thoughts, he add.

THERE’S ALREADY BEEN A GAY ‘BACHELOR’-TYPE SHOW, AND IT WAS ESRTED OFF AIR AFTER JT ONE SEASON

“I’m gay, ” he told anchor Rob Roberts, shaken though visibly relieved.

‘THE BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

I’m hant to ame Unrwood’s g out as some kd of signifint “gay first”, given how such narrativ often end up portrayg LGBTQ+ people as new, as if we haven’t been here the whole time. “The media that make visible simultaneoly obscure our prence history by ntually amg trans people [and, this stance wh Unrwood, gay people] as new, as a morn, medilized phenomenon only now g to light, ” wrer and artist Man M Page wrote 2017.

Other nttants have, siar to Unrwood, publicly e out after filmg all that md, feels like would be a real missed opportuny for the Bachelor powers that be to not rest Unrwood for the anchise’s first-ever Actually Gay season wh an Actually Gay would the first gay season of The Bachelor look like? That was one of the first major attempts at givg gay guys the gay versn of The Bachelor so many longed for, though greatly hred self by secretly addg a bunch of straight men to the st whout rmg s starrg bachelor first. Drawg on stereotyp about gay people beg ceptive and untstworthy?

Though for all the ways that Fdg Prce Charmg provid better reprentatn than s spirual precsor, was also borg – seemgly more ncerned about provg to viewers that gay men’s romantic aspiratns were every b as normal as their straight unterparts than wh pictg gay men on their own The Bachelor portrayed love eply heteropatriarchal terms (multiple women pete for the attentn of a sgle man, lookg for monogamy and, of urse, marriage), Fdg Prce Charmg simply gave the long-nng seri a h at of homosexual pat.

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