‘Bachelor’ fans mand gay season amid Colton Unrwood’s g out

Contents:

• COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
• COLTON UNRWOOD, THE FIRST GAY ‘BACHELOR,’ CONONTS HIS CONTROVERSIAL COMG OUT
• ‘BACHELOR’ FANS MAND GAY SEASON AMID COLTON UNRWOOD’S G OUT
• FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR SAYS HE IS GAY
• COLTON UNRWOOD, FIRST ‘BACHELOR’ STAR TO E OUT AS GAY, SAYS HE WAS BLACKMAILED
• ‘THE BACHELOR’ HAS A TROUBLED HISTORY WHEN TO GAY ROMANCE. IT’S NOT ALONE
• FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe 29-year-old former football player had wrten about qutng his sexualy a memoir, published Shotwell/Invisn, via Richard Shotwell, via Invisn, via Associated PrsColton Unrwood, a star of “The Bachelor” and a former football player, me out as gay an terview wh Rob Roberts that aired Wednday on “Good Morng Ameri. And I’m gay. “I would have rather died than say, ‘I’m gay.

COLTON UNRWOOD, THE FIRST GAY ‘BACHELOR,’ CONONTS HIS CONTROVERSIAL COMG OUT

“‘You know, Colt, we’d still love you and support you if you were gay, ’” he relled his mother tellg father was more nontatnal.

‘BACHELOR’ FANS MAND GAY SEASON AMID COLTON UNRWOOD’S G OUT

“He’d pulled up the history of recent Google search, which clud gay porn s and a variety of qutns: ‘Am I gay? How do you know if you’re gay?

FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR SAYS HE IS GAY

)In s 20 years, the anchise has never featured an all-gay st. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe former “Bachelor” star announced he is gay on natnal TV April. Lebacker, who ma hearts flutter two years ago as the virgal leadg man on ABC’s aggrsively heterosexual h datg anchise “The Bachelor, ” said the no-gog-back words “I’m gay.

The seri, which started filmg before his “Good Morng Ameri” appearance, is a heartfelt but refully packaged diary, which Unrwood reveals his sexual orientatn to unspectg fay members, iends and others, and gets a crash urse gay. But he also wants to make amends for gog on “The Bachelor” a failed attempt, he said, to “bury beg gay.

”Unrwood gets an assist on the seri om his iend G Kenworthy, the skier and Olympian who me out as gay 2015.

COLTON UNRWOOD, FIRST ‘BACHELOR’ STAR TO E OUT AS GAY, SAYS HE WAS BLACKMAILED

Compared to Unrwood, Kenworthy is a gay sage: He teach Unrwood what cisgenr means (“cis means that your genr that you intify wh is the same as the genr you were assigned at birth, ” he explas one scene) and ss wh Unrwood for a history lson at the Stonewall executive producer on the seri, Unrwood knows he has privilege and a platform, which is why he said he sought unsel om people who aren’t whe gay cisgenr men, cludg Nile Garcia, a transgenr Lata pastor. In an email, Garcia said Unrwood uld be a role mol, pecially to let young athlet know they “n be male, athletic, gay and be succsful, loved and rpected.

‘THE BACHELOR’ HAS A TROUBLED HISTORY WHEN TO GAY ROMANCE. IT’S NOT ALONE

”This beg realy TV, Unrwood didn’t prepare the people he out to on mera — what we see, he said, is their genue reactn to the news that he is gay. “We cid if we uld help a sgle fay, and hopefully multiple fai, by showg the love and support that I believe I displayed, other gay men and women hidg uld see a flicker of hope that their parents are gog to rpond wh open arms, ” she said a phone terview.

FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

Unrwood said his hand had been forced bee, as he also told Variety, he got an anonymo email last year om someone who claimed to have nu photos of him at a spa known for a gay clientele. “The easit way for me to say is that was like me brgg a girl home, ” Unrwood said, blhg and soundg like someone who really is new to this whole gay thg. ”Unrwood isn’t sure what next — maybe another gay TV project of some kd.

“I have to take re of myself first, ” he that means social media, Christians, gay guys, Bachelor Natn, everybody else will have to wa. Liftyle reported at the Unrwood beme the first openly gay man Bachelor Natn April C. The outlet reported that the rtrag orr was dropped that later, April 2021, Unrwood me out as gay durg an terview on "Good Morng Ameri.

"This mak him the first former lead to be part of the LGBTQ+ muny, and the first gay man volved wh the May 2023, Unrwood married polil strategist Jordan C.