Exclive Interview: Half Brothers star Juan Pablo Esposa on beg the gay role mol he never had “growg up Colombia a very macho culture there was always this stigma around beg gay” – The Queer Review

Contents:

• JUAN PABLO DI FATHER WANTS HIM TO GET MARRIED AND HAVE KIDS WHO COM OUT AS GAY PUBLICLY
• JUAN PABLO DI PACE SAYS HE FELT IT WAS HIS 'RPONSIBILY' TO PUBLICLY COME OUT AS GAY
• EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: HALF BROTHERS STAR JUAN PABLO ESPOSA ON BEG THE GAY ROLE MOL HE NEVER HAD “GROWG UP COLOMBIA A VERY MACHO CULTURE THERE WAS ALWAYS THIS STIGMA AROUND BEG GAY”
• ‘BACHELOR’ JUAN PABLO GALAVIS CALLS GAYS ‘MORE PERVERT,’ SAYS LGBT CONTTANT WOULD BE ‘TOO MUCH’
• FROM ‘FAY SECRETS’ TO ‘HALF BROTHERS,’ STAR JUAN PABLO ESPOSA BLAZ A GAY TRAIL
• JUAN PABLO GUTIéRREZ: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A LATO GAY ARTIST, ADVOTE
• JUAN PABLO HAS SOME NOT-SO-NICE THOUGHTS ABOUT A GAY 'BACHELOR' SEASON
• JUAN PABLO GAY: THAT’S WHY THE BACHELOR DIDN’T PROPOSE TO NIKKI FERRELL – REPORT
• 'FULLER HOE' STAR JUAN PABLO DI PACE ON HOW HIS CO-STARS REACTED AFTER HE CAME OUT AS GAY (EXCLIVE)
• ABC’S ‘BACHELOR’ JUAN PABLO GALAVIS SAYS GAYS SHOULDN’T BE ON THE SHOW
• ‘BACHELOR’ JUAN PABLO SAYS ‘PERVERT’ GAYS SHOULDN’T BE ON SHOW
• ‘BACHELOR’ JUAN PABLO SAYS ‘PERVERT’ GAYS SHOULDN’T BE ON SHOW

JUAN PABLO DI FATHER WANTS HIM TO GET MARRIED AND HAVE KIDS WHO COM OUT AS GAY PUBLICLY

Argente actor Juan Pablo Di Pace me out as gay publicly after feelg that was his rponsibily to let people know the tth. The Buenos Air native revealed his sexualy durg a TedX Talk, rerd March 2019 and released on YouTube late June, which also happens to be Pri the YouTube vio, tled “The Story of Your Life, ” Di Pace opened up that he realized was okay to be gay after he was offered the role of J Christ  the NBC seri A.

JUAN PABLO DI PACE SAYS HE FELT IT WAS HIS 'RPONSIBILY' TO PUBLICLY COME OUT AS GAY

He explaed that he had been lled an anti-gay slur when he was a child, and that moment forever shaped his abily to accept his own inty. It’s not like this is a secret that all of a sudn I need to brg out to the Pace, born on July 25, 1979, to parents Victor Di Pace and Marta Maeri, has not revealed any of his relatnship tails yet - whether he had any gay partners or boyiends.

Juan Pablo Di Pace is openg up about why he felt was his “rponsibily” to publicly e out as gay. In the clip, tled “The Story of Your Life, ” Di Pace, who was born Argenta, revealed he had been lled an anti-gay slur as a child and that moment had forever shaped his abily to accept his own inty. The Bible Contu that he realized was okay to be gay.

EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: HALF BROTHERS STAR JUAN PABLO ESPOSA ON BEG THE GAY ROLE MOL HE NEVER HAD “GROWG UP COLOMBIA A VERY MACHO CULTURE THERE WAS ALWAYS THIS STIGMA AROUND BEG GAY”

The Queer Review’s edor Jam Klemann had an exclive chat wh Juan Pablo Esposa about why beg offered a role like this Half Brothers was so rehg, what might ronate wh LGBTQ+ dienc about the film, how Oprah and a movg direct msage om a gay fan spired him to e out on social media and why he admir and intifi wh Ricky Mart.

‘BACHELOR’ JUAN PABLO GALAVIS CALLS GAYS ‘MORE PERVERT,’ SAYS LGBT CONTTANT WOULD BE ‘TOO MUCH’

In my se growg up Colombia a very macho culture there was always this stigma around beg gay. Whenever I thought about the possibily of beg an actor, was always like, oh well, you uld never be an actor and be gay, you know, that’s jt not the way works.

FROM ‘FAY SECRETS’ TO ‘HALF BROTHERS,’ STAR JUAN PABLO ESPOSA BLAZ A GAY TRAIL

I never stopped gog out, I would go to gay bars or go to gay clubs, and I would have a boyiend at the time, was very relaxed.

’ And then I realised that as a ltle boy who went to an all boys Catholic High School, full of guilt, full of qutns, full of fear, all the ncerns that I mentned earlier, like beg sgled out, or beg rejected or judged, I thk what I really need was a reference of somebody who uld be gay and still have a perfectly normal life and be happy.

JUAN PABLO GUTIéRREZ: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A LATO GAY ARTIST, ADVOTE

It tore my heart bee I unrstood that you n follow me on Instagram and see photos of flowers and sunsets and of a happy life, but I was leavg one thg asi and wasn’t nsc, but I wasn’t talkg about my life and I wasn’t talkg about beg a gay man. “I thought was somethg very simple, I jt upload this vio talkg about some of the same thgs I’m sayg to you now and sayg that I wanted everybody to know that I’m gay and that ’s wonrful and I’m very grateful. All we n do is strive to be the bt versns of ourselv and that for me is tryg to be the bt gay man that I n be, tryg to be the bt actor that I n be, tryg to be the bt son, partner, and brother.

Before him, when I was tryg to figure out my life I didn’t have a reference of another gay man who I uld intify wh as a Lato. A lot of tim when I would try to thk of somebody that I saw my everyday life who was gay and who had a perfectly normal and lovg life I uldn’t thk of anybody at that time, pecially the 80s, to be hont, somebody that was talkg about all the thgs. As well as Ricky, when Ellen DeGener me out and I was still livg outsi of the Stat Colombia to actually thk that a woman uld e out and say that she was gay and still have succs and have her edy and her show was credible to me then.

ABC’s newt “Bachelor” Juan Pablo Galavis is no duck hunter, but when to makg ments about gays, he’s fely been hangg out a bld. Attendg an ABC party Friday night, the 32-year-old Amerin-born Venezuelan, retired soccer pro and father to a 4-year-old dghter was asked by a reporter om TV Page whether he thought a gay “Bachelor” would be a good ia.

JUAN PABLO HAS SOME NOT-SO-NICE THOUGHTS ABOUT A GAY 'BACHELOR' SEASON

And there’s this thg about gay people that uh, seems to me, you know – and I don’t know if I’m more mistaken or not – I mean, great … I have a lot of iends … but they’re more “pervert” a sense, and to me the show will be too strong – too hard, to watch on TV.

JUAN PABLO GAY: THAT’S WHY THE BACHELOR DIDN’T PROPOSE TO NIKKI FERRELL – REPORT

(It wasn’t immediately clear who “Peter” was, but we’re gog wh Galavis’ “gay iend” — at least, they were likely iends at the time.

Juan Pablo Esposa n’t help but chuckle when rememberg the time that he was voted least likely to play a credible gay man. It starts 2010 wh his gut role on Secretos Faia—or Fay Secrets—a Colombian telenovela, on which he played his first gay role.

He dove to and was, fact, so fortable on set that he found himself schoolg the director and his fellow stmat on how a gay uple would act certa sceners—a rare feat for a gay Lat-Amerin actor at the time. So he was surprised when a major gossip magaze released a rear’s poll, which Esposa and three of his fellow actors were grad on how well they played gay—and he me last.

'FULLER HOE' STAR JUAN PABLO DI PACE ON HOW HIS CO-STARS REACTED AFTER HE CAME OUT AS GAY (EXCLIVE)

“I gus I was not gay enough, ” Esposa says. “But what do mean to be gay? He’s gay.

ABC’S ‘BACHELOR’ JUAN PABLO GALAVIS SAYS GAYS SHOULDN’T BE ON THE SHOW

Esposa hop to see more gay rol that don’t play to stereotyp.

Yet seems like announcg that you’re gay on social media last year hasn’t hurt your reer at all. I lived a perfectly out life Bogota, gog to every gay bar and club.

‘BACHELOR’ JUAN PABLO SAYS ‘PERVERT’ GAYS SHOULDN’T BE ON SHOW

I know that as a child, I uld have really ed a reference to someone, like ‘He’s gay, happy, and dog what he lov life and his fay.

I remember beg 13 and wantg an actg reer—and realizg I’m gay and thkg I want a boyiend that lov the same thgs I do.

48 HILLS Playg gay ed to spell reer suici—even for straight actors. It’s tertg how we live a time when an out gay actor n play straight and gay rol. Would you play gay aga?

‘BACHELOR’ JUAN PABLO SAYS ‘PERVERT’ GAYS SHOULDN’T BE ON SHOW

"The Bachelor" star Juan Pablo Galavis is still apologizg for the anti-gay ments he ma more than two weeks ago, now sayg that he has a relative who is gay. "I have a who is gay. Galavis, the realy TV show's first Lato bachelor, told a TV reporter last month that gays are "more 'pervert' a sense" and should not be allowed on the show.