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Contents:
- STARS WHO HAVE GAY CHILDREN
- GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
- CHILD STAR STGGLED TO E OUT AFTER PLAYG ‘THE GAY KID’ ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’
- 15 CELEBS YOU DIDN'T KNOW HAVE GAY KIDS
- THIS CHILD ACTOR’S GAY DAYS AT DISNEY ST HIM HIS REER
- MARCIA GAY HARN SAYS HER KIDS, WHO 'ARE ALL QUEER,' SPIRE HER LGBTQ ADVOCY
- WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?
- WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
- ‘AMERIN BANDSTAND’ KEPT SECRET THAT TEEN STARS WERE GAY
STARS WHO HAVE GAY CHILDREN
This list ntas rmatn about celebri wh gay children and celebri wh transgenr children, loosely ranked by fame and populary. * gay child stars *
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Anne HathawayLGBT rights have long been a prry for Prcs Diari star Anne Hathaway, who left the Roman Catholic Church prott of s tolerance after her brother Thomas me out as gay.
GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
Some of your favore Disney Channel stars are also proud members of the betiful LGBTQIA+ muny. Whether they intify as gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer/qutng, tersex, asexual or somethg else, the inic celebs have shared personal rmatn about their inti to help provi more visibily for queer people around the world. Learn more about Miley Cys, Demi Lovato, Mollee Gray and more! * gay child stars *
Dolly PartonA Tennsee child wh a blue-llar, eply relig upbrgg, Dolly Parton got a rad gig at 10, a rerd ntract at 13, and a gay followg that ntu to the diva's goln years. While she hasn't labeled herself gay or straight, she stead told Nylon, "You don’t have to label your sexualy; so many kids the days are not labelg their sexualy and I thk that’s so ol. Photo: Watch What Happens Live Wh Andy Cohen / BravoDigner and Heirs Gloria Vanrbilt wrote a book wh her gay son, journalist Anrson Cooper, 2016, lled, The Rabow Com and Go: A Mother and Son Talk About Life, Love, and Loss.
Vanrbilt - who had Cooper wh her fourth hband, Wyatt Emory Cooper - also told People 2016, "I hope you know that I am more than 'OK' wh ; I rejoice that you are gay! " Advertisement - Contue Readg Below8 Bella ThorneDiree Navarro//Getty ImagAdvertisement - Contue Readg Below9 Raven SymoneJason LaVeris//Getty ImagThe star of 'That's So Raven, ' a Disney Channel staple, officially me out when gay marriage was legalized across the Uned Stat by tweetg "I n fally get married! McIver rells, "When I was 14, I me very close to beg a gay teen suici 'statistic, ' but I then turned to mic, my piano, my loved on, and disvered that do fact get better.
Her three-year-long relatnship wh "AzMarie" Livgston, a relatnship that end not long ago, seems to put her the gay tegory, but don't tell her we lled her that.
CHILD STAR STGGLED TO E OUT AFTER PLAYG ‘THE GAY KID’ ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’
Walt Disney personally fired the child star of Old Yeller and The Swiss Fay Robson after fdg out he was gay. * gay child stars *
He said, "I had a brief stt on Hero where the gay character was 'hetwashed' after the actor's management threatened to pull him om the show if he—the character, not the actor—were gay. Dekker took Instagram to clarify thgs, sayg, "S*xual orientatn once aga me to qutn this week when a proment gay man ed an awards acceptance speech to 'out' me… [while] is an odd suatn, I thank him bee prents a prime opportuny for me to publicly say that I am ed a man who proudly lov other men.
Acrdg to stats rived om polls nducted or missned by groups like the Pew Rearch Center and the Human Rights Campaign, ne out of 10 adults the Uned Stat say that they know somebody who is gay, and more than a third of the populatn say they personally know someone who's trans.
15 CELEBS YOU DIDN'T KNOW HAVE GAY KIDS
Actor Marcia Gay Harn said her queer children spire her LGBTQ advocy, cludg agast bills that would rtrict drag performanc * gay child stars *
But she didn't bee a gay advote until her first child, then known as Chasty, me out as a gay woman, and eventually a transgenr man whom we know today as Chaz Bono. After Lil Nas X me out publicly as gay and fully embraced his sexualy his Montero (Call Me By Your Name) mic vio, his father, gospel mician Robert Stafford, wrote on Instagram, “Very creative vio. Durg a film screeng of his movie My Fake Boyiend June, McDermott posted an Instagram Story which said, part, “The thg I love about this movie is I got to share wh my 15-year-old, who intifi as trans, and my gay son.
“As a parent, I wanted EJ to know that we loved him and would always love him, ” Magic Johnson told the New York Tim of his reactn when his son, makp artist EJ Johnson, me out to him as gay when he was a teenager.
THIS CHILD ACTOR’S GAY DAYS AT DISNEY ST HIM HIS REER
A Mnota school district is facg a Department of Jtice vtigatn and a private lawsu over s alleged failure to bat antigay bullyg.... * gay child stars *
“As long as I am upright, I will fight [so] that Sam and everyone’s children and grandchildren and sisters and brothers will be protected every state of the Uned Stat, ” Sally Field said of her son, Sam Greisman, who is gay — and why she’s a part of the Human Rights Campaign’s work towards the Equaly Act. I jt want to make sure he gets to have a fay when he wants one, ” Marcia Gay Harn said of son Hudson at the Fay Equaly Council’s Impact Awards. 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.
MARCIA GAY HARN SAYS HER KIDS, WHO 'ARE ALL QUEER,' SPIRE HER LGBTQ ADVOCY
The world knew he was gay — but he kept other secrets for more than a . * gay child stars *
Gay actor Matt Bomer won a Goln Globe for playg a closeted journalist the TV film adaptatn of Larry Kramer's AIDS epimic-foced play "The Normal Heart. 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 DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?
XY Anatomy of a Boy: Directed by Mette Carla Albrechtsen. Wh Sune Demant, Esben Weiergang Larsen, Anrs Bobek, Alexanr Stang Asmsen. Can you be a virg, gay and to girls? This film is an timate study of six homosexual boys. In the changg room some of the uncertati and embarrassment's of youth emerge, such as the tale of hunky Peter, romance and the naff value of losg your virgy durg a Disney movie." data-id="ma * gay child stars *
"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. 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.
WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
From Angela Jolie to Cher, more and more celebri are openly sharg about their children who intify as gay or even transgenr. * gay child stars *
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.
‘AMERIN BANDSTAND’ KEPT SECRET THAT TEEN STARS WERE GAY
That same month, he donated $1 ln to GLSEN (Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network), which works to create clive and safe environments schools. While his most notable role of the last few years put beg gay ont and center stage, actor Lee Pace was not always as forthg about his own sexualy. While he adms he was never outright srned for beg gay, there have been stanc where he felt was more of a hdrance than jt a fact that shouldn't matter.