11 Historil Figur You Didn’t Know Were Gay | TheRicht

Contents:

• WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU WERE GAY?
• HOW DID I NOT KNOW I WAS GAY?
• I ASKED GUYS WHEN THEY FIRST KNEW THEY WERE GAY
• AM I GAY?
• I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY
• 11 HISTORIL FIGUR YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY
• AM I GAY? HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY?
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• COMG OUT AS GAY IN YOUR 20S, 30S & 40S

WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU WERE GAY?

I was blsed to enter Yale Divy School wh Chris Glaser, one of the urageo gay pneers the Prbyterian Church (U. It’s also important to pot out that “straight” and “homosexual” were the only optns I knew of at that time, so there was still no word for me as bisexual. Then he addrsed the class, stctg each to take out a piece of paper and a pen and wre down the moment when we all realized we were gay.

I had already been asked a ln tim, "When did you know you were gay", but I was thrilled to have someone state the qutn aloud, the ntext of an amic exercise. If I was gay, I wonred if meant that I would be required to cut my hair to a buzzcut like the (first, ostensibly) lbian (I had ever nfirmed as such) my mother had poted out to me at the Ralph Lren outlet a middle-class untry town you might fd somewhere like Vermont; a untry town where you might fd lbians.

HOW DID I NOT KNOW I WAS GAY?

The paed entri, not wantg to tear up the fay we had built over the, there I was, my late 30’s — sperately tryg not be gay.

We red for each other, but there was always a disnnectn how uld I not know I was Gay until midlife?

Not only that, Lil Nas X ma history as the first openly gay mician to be nomated for a Country Mic Associatn Award. He was the first mil artist to e out as gay while his rerd was stg at number one, where stayed for over 19 weeks. Takei urageoly me out as gay 2002 and has been married to his hband, Brad Takei, sce 2008.

I ASKED GUYS WHEN THEY FIRST KNEW THEY WERE GAY

I took a female iend to premier and parti, and then I’d take her home and go to a gay bar.

On the Ellen DeGener show 2018, speakg of his marriage, he said, “It’s such a weird thg beg a gay uple at my age, bee when we got together, you uldn’t get married. In 2012, Miller told The Daily Beast he intified as queer, gog on to say, "the way I would choose to intify myself wouldn't be gay. In an terview wh Piers Man on CNN 2011, she was asked if beg gay was harr than beg black.

Lambert publicly me out shortly after his stt on Amerin Idol and was the first openly gay artist to top the Billboard 200 album charts 2015. When asked about the difference between his g out 2009 vers what ’s like beg an openly gay artist 2019 an terview wh Variety 2019 he said, “It’s a totally different landspe. Superman: Dawn of Jtice and Chappie), Cooper has always been out and is nsired the most proment openly gay journalist on Amerin televisn.

AM I GAY?

Even current Apple CEO Tim Cook sought out Cooper's advice before g out to the public as gay. Acrdg to a blog by Time magaze, before Cook publicly me out as gay 2014, he lled Anrson Cooper for his advice.

Shortly after she me out 2018, an terview wh Gay Tim Magaze when asked about how she felt about g out publicly she said, “This was a moment time when I wanted to give nfince to girls who are trapped and feel like they n’t tell their parents that they are gay. He heroicly me out as gay 1999 and has been married to X-Fil actor Devl Elltt sce late 2015. He told his publicists, “I’m not ready to discs whether I’m gay or not wh Oprah.

I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY

Not bee mak me look gay, or mak me look straight, or mak me look bisexual, but bee I thk looks ol. Known for her rol The Hunger Gam and The Hate U Give, Amandla Stenberg me out as gay June 2018.

Although Stenberg officially clared herself bisexual 2016 an terview wh Wonrland magaze 2018, she said she realized that she was actually gay. “I was so overe wh this profound sense of relief when I realized that I’m gay—not bi, not pan, but gay. In 2013, Garber nfirmed that he was gay, though had long been spected seeg as he hadn't really hidn his 20-pl-years relatnship wh Raer Andreen.

11 HISTORIL FIGUR YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY

To be fair, he was open about his sexualy durg his life, even sayg, "like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experienc and I am not ashamed.

In the same terview 1976, when homosexualy was still nsired taboo to discs, let alone somethg to adm to Brando said, “I have never paid much attentn to what people thk about me.

However, as recently as 2010, Chamberla felt that homosexualy was still wily unaccepted and advised leadg man-type actors to stay the closet. Bt known for his role as the homophobic villa Adam Carrgton on Dynasty. Thomson announced a September 2017 terview wh The Daily Beast that he is a gay man at the age of 72.

AM I GAY? HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY?

"I'm probably as homophobic as any gay man alive bee of my background.

Growg up homosexual a time of sexual reprsn, Thomson says he never told anyone bee was first fed as a crime and then a mental illns.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

Quto me out as gay 2011, after playg Louis Signature Theater's rtagg of "Angels Ameri. And at the same time, as a gay man, ma me feel like there’s still so much work to be done, and there’s still so many thgs that need to be looked at and addrsed.

Although he didn't e out as gay until 2009, he has been wh his hband, Brian Hargrove, sce 1983. Another history-makg athlete, Jason Colls, was the first NBA star to e out as gay and ntue playg. In an terview for “The Last Lgh” podst 2019, Lynch said that Ellen’s g out 1997 “ma my beg a gay person Hollywood a no-braer, not a problem at all, bee she basilly took one for the team, if you will.

COMG OUT AS GAY IN YOUR 20S, 30S & 40S

This former NFL star ma history as the first out gay player to be drafted. In 2014, after years of publicly nyg , Thorpe me out as gay an terview wh Atralian talk show host Michael Parkson. Jt two years after releasg his tobgraphy 2012 which he vehemently nied beg gay, durg his terview wh Parkson he said, “I’m fortable sayg I’m a gay man, and I don’t want young people to feel the same way that I did.