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• BOY BAND STAR DUNN JAM ‘PROUD TO BE GAY’
• BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
• BLUE’S SIMON WEBBE PROUD TO BE LGBT ALLY WH GAY DGHTER AND BANDMATE DUNN JAM: ‘IT’S HARD FOR PEOPLE TO TRY AND BE ACCEPTED’

BOY BAND STAR DUNN JAM ‘PROUD TO BE GAY’

Sign up to Rois O’Connor’s ee weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the si track on all thgs micGet our Now Hear This email for eeBlue sger Dunn Jam has said that the band’s mostly female fanbase ma more difficult for him to e me out as bisexual 2009 and has more recently scribed himself as gay. “There was no RuPl’s Drag Race, there was no TV shows like It’s A sger Dunn Jam pictured 2021 (Getty Imag)“You know, I thk the clost thg we got to anybody beg a gay in was Nadia (Almada) om Big Brother. Boy band star Dunn Jam ‘proud to be gay’He was a teen heart-throb the early noughti — now Blue sger Dunn Jam is showg off the man who mak him “proud to be gay” Jam said he’s “proud to be gay” as he posted a picture of himself sied up wh Brazilian boyiend Rodrigo Reis.

BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER

”The 41-year-old star thanked fans for the “amazg” support and “love” sce he me wrote: “I didn’t intify as a gay man for many years bee of my own issu wh g out, but fally im happy my sk & this guy next 2 me mak me proud 2 be gay. ” RELATED: Boy band Blue clar bankptcyDunn said 2009 he was bisexual and me out as gay 2012, tellg his Blue bandmate Simon explaed: “When I told Simon, he enuraged me to speak to my mum, who was LA wh me a hotel at the time. “She said, ‘You’re gay?

”Earlier this year, Dunn told Brish TV show Loose Women that g out as gay was the “bt thg he ever did” after years of “livg a lie”, who has a 14-year-old dghter lled Tiane om a prev relatnship, first started postg pictur of Rodrigo a month ago when they went to Amsterdam’s Tropikali Ftival. The mastream populary of boy bands wtern mic almost ensur that one or two members of each group intifi as gay, bisexual or queer. Most out gay boy band members talk about their early reer days of havg dual personas - the public heterosexual teen male, and the private gay dividual - creatg an thenticy paradox.

There have been sporadic attempts to create succsful all-gay boy bands to ter to the LGBTQ dance club crowd.

BLUE’S SIMON WEBBE PROUD TO BE LGBT ALLY WH GAY DGHTER AND BANDMATE DUNN JAM: ‘IT’S HARD FOR PEOPLE TO TRY AND BE ACCEPTED’

Neverthels, there is a group of notable boy band members who publicly intify as gay, bisexual or queer. Former member of UK boy band Blue, Dunn Jam, has revealed that he is "fally fortable" his own sk, sharg a photo wh his new boyiend, Rodrigo Reis, on social, who me out as bisexual 2009, then as gay 2012, exprsed his gratu at the overwhelmg 'love' he had received om fans. "I posted this pic on my Insta yterday & uldn’t get over the amazg rponse, ments and love om people, " the 41-year-old father wrote on ntued: "I didn’t intify as a gay man for many years bee of my own issu wh g out, but fally I'm happy my sk & this guy next 2 me mak me proud 2 be gay.

”And Dunn, who later me out as gay, admted: “I had more than my share of betiful women on my arm back those days.

“So I stood there, a boyband star turned prime-time TV entertaer gazg out at the untry’s biggt dience, eatg their dners, and I’m havg a panic attack, secretly gay, takg antiprsants to pe wh strs and I have jt soiled my unrpants, live on air. He said: “Beg brought up as a strict Catholic, the whole gay thg my head was bad and wrong.

“And wasn’t until I was the band, beg around other gay guys, unrstandg that actually you n be gay.

For as long there have been boy bands, there have been gay or bisexual boy band members. Sger Dunn Jam, who has a dghter wh an ex-girliend, first me out as bisexual 2009 but later clarified that he is gay, acknowledgg a Brish TV documentary that he had a three-year relatnship wh one of Blue's hunky male backup dancers. He also admted he was so sred people would fd out he was gay that he dated women, even havg sex wh some of them, which was, ultimately, what broke up his relatnship wh his dancer boyiend: "I broke his heart to the pot where he uldn't be wh me that way anymore and end .

Lead sger L McKeown told filmmakers he had lived a secret gay life for more than 30 years, even keepg his pas om his wife of 25 years, Peko McKeown. Dunn Jam om Blue says people were shocked when they found out he was gay (Picture: Getty)Dunn Jam, 35, was boy band Blue and had a reer mils when they spl 2005. People were shocked when they heard I was gay.