It's LGBTQ Pri Month 2022. TODAY Show talked wh Lance Bass who remembers tryg to "pray the gay away" as a young boy growg up a Mississippi town.
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- ALL ABOUT THAT BASS: LANCE BASS ON HIS BIG FAT GAY TELEVISED WEDDG
- ALL ABOUT THAT BASS: LANCE BASS ON HIS BIG FAT GAY TELEVISED WEDDG
- HOW LANCE BASS HEALED HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS PARENTS AFTER G OUT AS GAY
ALL ABOUT THAT BASS: LANCE BASS ON HIS BIG FAT GAY TELEVISED WEDDG
Lance Bass and his new hband, Michael Turch, on how they first met, g out, their weddg day, and their gay televisn special. * all about that bass gay *
I e om Mississippi and I know you don’t change people's mds until they get to know you and they get to wns what a gay person is like.
” Like so many ton for LGBTQ visibily, the airg of a gay celebry’s weddg on a major work feels like should have already happened, but hasn’ and Turch met at a party Palm Sprgs 2011, and stg the r on his way home, Turch cid to send Bass a msage on Facebook. "It’s dissected not jt by the straight muny but by the gay muny.
" Rather than claim to be reprentg the queer muny, Bass se gettg married on televisn as a way to reach and possibly ease the pa of young gay people muni like Ellisville, Misissippi, where he grew up. That shows you how far we have to go wh people’s ignorance about the gay muny. "That was brgg the gay element, ” Turch says.
ALL ABOUT THAT BASS: LANCE BASS ON HIS BIG FAT GAY TELEVISED WEDDG
When asked which misnceptns about “beg gay” he’d like to never addrs aga (if people would stop askg), he says: “There’s so much gray area between everythg. You know, a straight person is not pletely straight, a gay person is not pletely gay; there’s all this gray area.
“Everyone is so terted gay sex! “It’s a gay sports bar, ” the uple says together. ” After the premiere, they will fly down to Fort Lrdale, and Bass will oversee a mass weddg for 100 upl of var orientatns as part of a “Love is Love” event sponsored by the Greater Fort Lrdale Conventn & Visors Bure to celebrate the recent legalizatn of gay marriage Florida.
I e om Mississippi and I know you don’t change people’s mds until they get to know you and they get to wns what a gay person is like. ” Like so many ton for LGBTQ visibily, the airg of a gay celebry’s weddg on a major work feels like should have already happened, but hasn’t. “It’s dissected not jt by the straight muny but by the gay muny.
HOW LANCE BASS HEALED HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS PARENTS AFTER G OUT AS GAY
” Rather than claim to be reprentg the queer muny, Bass se gettg married on televisn as a way to reach and possibly ease the pa of young gay people muni like Ellisville, Misissippi, where he grew up. “That was brgg the gay element, ” Turch says.
” After the premiere, they will fly down to Fort Lrdale, and Bass will officiate a mass weddg for 100 upl of var orientatns as part of a “Love is Love” event sponsored by the Greater Fort Lrdale Conventn & Visors Bure to celebrate the recent legalizatn of gay marriage Florida. "Reynolds grew up Mormon, and he's long been open about his journey to rencile the church's anti-gay doctre wh his own support for gay rights.