Lance Bass: How He Healed His Relatnship Wh His Relig Parents After Comg Out As Gay

Contents:

• WHY LANCE BASS WAS TERRIFIED TO E OUT AS GAY TO HIS PARENTS
• LANCE BASS: I'M GAY
• DANIELLE FISHEL REVEALS WHICH NSYNC MEMBER TOLD HER LANCE BASS WAS GAY WHILE THEY WERE DATG
• LANCE BASS: 'I'M GAY'
• IS LANCE BASS MARRIED? IS LANCE BASS GAY?

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

Lance Bass' plan on how he would e out as gay to his 'N Sync band members didn't exactly go acrdg to plan. I have so many gay iends — I don't re. 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. Bass me out as gay 2006.

LANCE BASS: I'M GAY

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.

“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.

DANIELLE FISHEL REVEALS WHICH NSYNC MEMBER TOLD HER LANCE BASS WAS GAY WHILE THEY WERE DATG

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.

CelebryLGBTQ+ Joy For All“Boy Meets World” Star Danielle Fishel And Lance Bass Jt Reflected On Their Yearlong Romance And Revealed They’re Turng Their Relatnship Into A MovieLance me out as gay four years after NSYNC went on hiat — and six years after he broke Boy Meets World star Danielle Fishel’s on Augt 30, 2022, 4:08 pm. Lance ntued to exclively date women until he was 22 years old, but 2006 — four years after NSYNC went on a hiat — Lance me out as gay a ver story for People magaze. His cisn to open up about his sexualy me amid mountg speculatn, wh Lance beg pictured at gay bars and clubs by the paparazzi the weeks leadg up to to the terview.

LANCE BASS: 'I'M GAY'

The sger admted that he didn’t thk that he would ever be able to “act on beg gay, ” and that his management and rerd label lay down the law on what he uld and uldn’t say and do public.

IS LANCE BASS MARRIED? IS LANCE BASS GAY?

Discsg the breakdown of Lance’s relatnship wh Danielle, her podst host Will Friedle asked: “When you broke up wh her, had you told yourself yet that you were gay? I had realized that y, I wasn’t to girls, but also — my head — there was no way I would ever act on beg gay.

“They’d disguise a way … If they knew that I was gay, then they wouldn’t say, ‘Hey, if you’re gay, don’t e out. “So I knew beg out gay was fely not gonna be [an optn.

Durg the chat, Danielle revealed that several people — cludg her mother — had speculated about Lance’s sexualy after he dumped her, but bee beg gay was a much more taboo topic back the '90s, she didn’t believe them. “Other people said to me, ‘Danielle, Lance is gay, ’ before Lance did and were really tryg to tell me, like, If you n’t see , that’s what’s gog on, and was such a thg back then, Lance was so private about and… You were forced to be the closet, ” she shared. “Even for me, someone sayg to me, ‘It’s actually that he’s gay, ’ I was like, ‘Well, no, that’s not possible, ’ bee wasn’t as accepted, wasn’t as mon, was like everyone was sayg that [so I’d] thk ’s not me.