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- KARAMO BROWN OPENS UP ABOUT BEG A SGLE GAY FATHER: 'NO ONE GAVE ME A MANUAL'
- KARAMO BROWN SAYS HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS FATHER 'END' FOR 10 YEARS AFTER HE CAME OUT AS GAY
KARAMO BROWN OPENS UP ABOUT BEG A SGLE GAY FATHER: 'NO ONE GAVE ME A MANUAL'
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KARAMO BROWN SAYS HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS FATHER 'END' FOR 10 YEARS AFTER HE CAME OUT AS GAY
When I was 17 gog on 18, I told him that I was gay.
For anyone who knows Karamo Brown beyond his role as the warm, sensive but strong, tear-ducg culture gu on Queer Eye, they know his most important role life is the 38-year-old father of two beme part of the Fab Five and showed his smooth mov on this season of Dancg Wh the Stars, Karamo was troduced to the world as one of only a handful of out Black gay men on realy TV (at the time), on MTV's The Real World: Philalphia 2004. This is a young man who grew up a hoehold where his father is a reer gay. "Karamo is hont about havg to face some of the fears that many queer parents have alg wh ignorant and homophobic stereotyp.
""When I got ctody of Jason, people said, 'Don't have your son be raised wh a gay man, bee 's gog to turn him gay, '" ntu Karamo. “This is a young man who grew up a hoehold where his father is a reer gay… I’ve lerally been on televisn, open and proud about my sexualy, worked social servic wh LGBT youth, he was around LGBT youth and adults, he’s seen the healthy relatnship that I’ve been for ten years — yet there was still a fear his md of sharg wh me.