Boy Band Members Who Are Out As Gay, Bisexual or Queer

Contents:

• BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
• AMERI’S GOT TALENT DNS “THE WORLD’S GAYT BOY BAND”
• AMERI’S FIRST ALL OPENLY GAY BOY BAND RELEASE DEBUT SGLE

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

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.

Neverthels, there is a group of notable boy band members who publicly intify as gay, bisexual or queer. This week on Ameri’s Got Talent, jt time for Pri Month, Cowell and his fellow judg dned The Other Directn, a group that bills self as “the world’s gayt boy band. “We ma a pact that when we turned 21, we would e together and form the world’s gayt boy band, and here we are!

An spirg gay pelin uple has stayed together for nearly two s. 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.

AMERI’S GOT TALENT DNS “THE WORLD’S GAYT BOY BAND”

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.

AMERI’S FIRST ALL OPENLY GAY BOY BAND RELEASE DEBUT SGLE

Although several boy bands the past have had one of s members e out as gay at some pot (Jonathan Knight of New Kids on the Block, Lance Bass of *NSYNC), there has never been one that has tly nsisted of five openly gay men one band… until now.