Karamo Brown opens up about beg a sgle gay father: 'No one gave me a manual'

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• KARAMO BROWN OPENS UP ABOUT BEG A SGLE GAY FATHER: 'NO ONE GAVE ME A MANUAL'
• KARAMO BROWN SAYS HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS FATHER 'END' FOR 10 YEARS AFTER HE CAME OUT AS GAY

KARAMO BROWN OPENS UP ABOUT BEG A SGLE GAY FATHER: 'NO ONE GAVE ME A MANUAL'

For anyone who knows Karamo Brown beyond his role as the warm, sensive but strong, tear-ducg culture gu on Queer Eye, they know his most important role life is the 38-year-old father of two beme part of the Fab Five and showed his smooth mov on this season of Dancg Wh the Stars, Karamo was troduced to the world as one of only a handful of out Black gay men on realy TV (at the time), on MTV's The Real World: Philalphia 2004.

This is a young man who grew up a hoehold where his father is a reer gay.

"Karamo is hont about havg to face some of the fears that many queer parents have alg wh ignorant and homophobic stereotyp. ""When I got ctody of Jason, people said, 'Don't have your son be raised wh a gay man, bee 's gog to turn him gay, '" ntu Karamo. “This is a young man who grew up a hoehold where his father is a reer gay… I’ve lerally been on televisn, open and proud about my sexualy, worked social servic wh LGBT youth, he was around LGBT youth and adults, he’s seen the healthy relatnship that I’ve been for ten years — yet there was still a fear his md of sharg wh me.

KARAMO BROWN SAYS HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS FATHER 'END' FOR 10 YEARS AFTER HE CAME OUT AS GAY

The TV star add: “When I got ctody of Jason, people said, ‘Don’t have your son be raised wh a gay man, bee ’s gog to turn him gay, ’ and obvly, I know that’s ignorant, I know that’s not te… but when he let me to his life [about his pansexualy], I immediately thought, ‘Oh, here we go. “I me out at 16-years-old as a proud, gay man, ” he told. ' I don't even thk I tly unrstood that word at that always talk about the experience of beg lbian, gay and now recently that of trans people.

But what I n do is ntuoly you feel that there's a specific prsure placed on you as a sgle gay father raisg two boys? Sce his high school girliend, Karamo has been livg as a proud openly gay man and was even engaged to his longtime partner Ian Jordan om 2010 until they went their separate ways 2020.