Lance Bass: 'I'm Gay'

Contents:

• WHY LANCE BASS WAS TERRIFIED TO E OUT AS GAY TO HIS PARENTS
• LANCE BASS: I'M GAY
• LANCE BASS: 'I'M GAY'
• LANCE BASS: 'I'M GAY'

WHY LANCE BASS WAS TERRIFIED TO E OUT AS GAY TO HIS PARENTS

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.

LANCE BASS: I'M GAY

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? “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.

LANCE BASS: 'I'M 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.

Eight years ago, 2014, Diane spoke ont of her ngregatn about her journey as a Southern Baptist wh a gay child. “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.

LANCE BASS: 'I'M GAY'

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. “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.

He is a “very stable” relatnship wh mol-actor-Amazg Race wner Reichen Lehmkuhl, 32, and is velopg an Odd Couple-spired s pilot wh Fatone which his character will be gay. Bass is reportedly announcg that he is gay an exclive terview wh People magaze. "I back him up 100 percent, " Fatone had been swirlg about Bass, 27, and his relatnship wh 32-year-old realy-show star New York Post's Page Six reported that the uple had been spotted over the July Fourth weekend at Atlantic Hoe, a gay bar Provcetown, Mass.