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• 11 HISTORIL FIGUR YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY
• 15 FAMO PEOPLE YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY!
• WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU WERE GAY?
• 15 CELEBRI YOU DIDN'T KNOW WERE GAY

11 HISTORIL FIGUR YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY

On the Ellen DeGener show 2018, speakg of his marriage, he said, “It’s such a weird thg beg a gay uple at my age, bee when we got together, you uldn’t get married. When asked about the difference between his g out 2009 vers what ’s like beg an openly gay artist 2019 an terview wh Variety 2019 he said, “It’s a totally different landspe.

Shortly after she me out 2018, an terview wh Gay Tim Magaze when asked about how she felt about g out publicly she said, “This was a moment time when I wanted to give nfince to girls who are trapped and feel like they n’t tell their parents that they are gay. To be fair, he was open about his sexualy durg his life, even sayg, "like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experienc and I am not ashamed.

In the same terview 1976, when homosexualy was still nsired taboo to discs, let alone somethg to adm to Brando said, “I have never paid much attentn to what people thk about me. And at the same time, as a gay man, ma me feel like there’s still so much work to be done, and there’s still so many thgs that need to be looked at and addrsed. In an terview for “The Last Lgh” podst 2019, Lynch said that Ellen’s g out 1997 “ma my beg a gay person Hollywood a no-braer, not a problem at all, bee she basilly took one for the team, if you will.

15 FAMO PEOPLE YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY!

Jt two years after releasg his tobgraphy 2012 which he vehemently nied beg gay, durg his terview wh Parkson he said, “I’m fortable sayg I’m a gay man, and I don’t want young people to feel the same way that I did. Although Young was not sure how the news about him beg an openly gay wrtler would be received, he was relieved at the amount of support he actually received.

LOG IN WITH FACEBOOKHome›Polics and Activism›20 Historil Figur You Didn't Know Were Queer›For a very long time, beg gay was illegal, meang that many people were forced to live their whole liv the closet. The artist was twice publicly acced of havg gay sex, his youthful male protege was removed bee of the “wicked life he had led” wh Leonardo, and his own wrgs repeatedly med on his own attractn to men – and borrle revulsn to sex wh women. While the sexualy of some remas hotly disputed--even the face of documented sexual enunters--some people still refe to believe any of the ins on this list uld ever have tried the big gay way.

However, the Tony and Emmy-nomated gay actor has also played Victor Strand on several seasons of "Fear the Walkg Dead, " and appeared films like "If Beale Street Could Talk, " "Selma, " and "Zola. The actor explaed how he felt that "livg a gay life whout publicly acknowledgg is simply not enough to make any signifint ntributn to the immense work that li ahead on the road to plete equaly. It wasn't until she began watchg sci-fi TV seri "The X-Fil" that the first openly gay woman star of "SNL" Kate McKnon said she realized she was attracted to women.

WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU WERE GAY?

"When we get to the pot where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live fear that he'll be shunned by teammat or outed by tabloids … then g out won't be such a big al, " Colls wrote, but ultimately nced that we're "not there yet.

" In 2013, he nfirmed that he is gay, though he hadn't exactly been hidg his LGBTQ+ stat—or his more than 20-year relatnship wh Raer Andreen, for that matter. After g out at a Prop 8 rally 2008, the edian claimed she was subsequently treated like a "unirn, " that most gay or bisexual Ain Amerins don't openly share their LGBTQ+ stat. " Carver has sce been vol about Hollywood's tenncy to perpetuate negative LGBTQ+ stereotyp, as well as pigeonholg openly gay actors to playg specific typ of rol.

15 CELEBRI YOU DIDN'T KNOW WERE GAY

Bt known for playg Obi-Wan Kenobi the origal "Star Wars" trilogy, Sir Alec Guns kept his sexual orientatn—and his arrt for a homosexual act 1946—away om the public eye for the entirety of his adult life. Long before directg movi like "Prec" or -creatg Fox's "Empire, " Lee Daniels was a young gay man g to terms wh his homosexualy while growg up Philalphia. Hopg to quash the ntroversy, Banks me out as bisexual that same year, addg that nearly all of her iends are gay and that one of her siblgs is transgenr.

He told Variety that while watchg "Love, Simon, " a love story wh a gay protagonist, he realized, "Straight people go to the movi and lerally see themselv all the time.