‘Amerin Bandstand’ kept secret that teen stars were gay

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

The out actrs ma headl this year when she publicly nonted Texas senator (and failed printial ndidate) Ted Cz about his stance agast employment protectns for LGBT dividuals her Vice seri Gaytn. She has bee a vol supporter of all thgs LGBT, blastg antigay polician Rick Santom and the rporatns that support him and givg LGBT youth and drag queens the stage at MTV's Vio Mic Awards, all the while earng herself a ban om the Domin Republic. Allen rpond to the turn of events by beg an outspoken gay activist and has sce been volved producg several works of art cril of so-lled ex-gay therapy.

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. 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.

GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)

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.

CHILD STAR STGGLED TO E OUT AFTER PLAYG ‘THE GAY KID’ ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’

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. 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. 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.

15 CELEBS YOU DIDN'T KNOW HAVE GAY KIDS

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. “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.

THIS CHILD ACTOR’S GAY DAYS AT DISNEY ST HIM HIS REER

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 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.

MARCIA GAY HARN SAYS HER KIDS, WHO 'ARE ALL QUEER,' SPIRE HER LGBTQ ADVOCY

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 DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?

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. 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.

WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET

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. "When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years, and all they said was 'we know, '" Schnapp wrote of his g-out story, addg, "I gus I'm more siar to will than I thought.

‘AMERIN BANDSTAND’ KEPT SECRET THAT TEEN STARS WERE GAY

Former child actor Brian Falduto says that he wasn’t able to e out until his senr year of llege bee of the stggl he faced after beg dubbed “the gay kid” om “School of Rock. “I was so much nial [about my sexualy growg up], ” he said on the “Cooper and Anthony Show, ” “Thk about : I was the fifth gra when this movie me out and I was lled gay, and then someone told me that’s not ol, so I was jt like, ‘Oh, ok, then I’m not gay’. “So by the time I realized I was potentially gay, I was already homophobic towards myself, sentially, ” Falduto, who is now an actor, filmmaker, mician and life ach said.

Speakg to Js Cagle on SiriXM, Sally Field — whose son Sam Griman is gay — shared her advice for people expectg that their children might e out to them.

But the fact is, a parent, as a human, you should listen to what people tell you about themselv, " she told actor Alan Cummg and Chris Sweeney on their Homo sapiens podst 2020. "Cybill ShepherdThe s and Hollywood star is the parent of two LGBTQ+ kids – dghter Clemente Ford is bisexual, while dghter Ariel Shepherd-Oppenheim is gay. Photo cred: (Getty)In his third HBO special, “Rothaniel, ” edian Jerrod Carmichael opened his set by sayg, “I rried a lot of secrets my whole life, ” cludg that he is gay.