Tag: coming out

Iceman had his first gay kiss (again!). The comic book hero has had interesting year or two. The X-Men member has had to come out twice now and now even gets his first gay kiss twice too. You see, there’s currently two canon iterations of the character right now. One that we’ve all known and loved for years and a younger version of him that’s done some time traveling into our time. It was the younger version that came out first and then...

We have the latest celebrity coming out news for you and this time it comes from a star of the TV Land show Younger. Dan Amboyer went to People Magazine when he wanted to share the news of his coming out and getting hitched. “Being a young actor in the industry, I had a lot of people who strongly advised me to stay quiet. That was hard to live with,” Amboyer shared. “But I’ve never played a gay role before and...

"Maybe I'll find out I'm only 30% gay," Cindy Chupack's husband told her. Sex and the City writer Cindy Chupack has been open about her ex-husband coming out as gay. She discussed it in a New York Times article in May and even shared the story of when he confessed that he “might be gay” at a Moth storytelling event. “It was five days before my ten-year high school reunion that my husband told me he might be gay,” begins Chupack,...

"We love just like everyone else. Please, Australia." The postal survey that will help decide the fate of marriage equality in Australia underway, with the results being announced on November 15. And a number of celebrities have been vocal in their support for same-sex marriage Down Under. Below, we list 11 of the biggest names encouraging Australians to vote “Yes.” Hugh Jackman https://www.instagram.com/p/BVz2EhmjKBy/ The Wolverine star is the latest celebrity to announce he’s voting “yes” in the poll, tweeting that he and his wife...

One brave teen decided to take the plunge live on national TV on Tuesday night. Coming out to friends and family can be one of the hardest decisions LGBT people ever have to face, but one 16-year-old boy has provided a welcome source of inspiration for others after deciding to take the plunge live on national television. Eighty 16 to 22-year-olds were been invited to share their views as part of BBC Newsbeat’s Generation Misunderstood? programme, which aired on the BBC...

Andrew Garfield may have been heavily criticised by some for describing himself as a “gay man right now just without the physical act”, but he’s still a big supporter of the LGBT community. The Spider-Man actor recently played the lead in a National Theatre production of Tony Kushner’s two-part classic Angels in America, a play set during the AIDS crisis in New York in the 1980s. “It’s sadly very pertinent to the political climate,” he told Time Out London of the...

"While I was growing up it was a crime." Gordon Thomson, who played the villainous Adam Carrington in the original Dynasty, has come out as a gay in a new interview. The 72-year-old actor told The Daily Beast: “It’s not something I’ve ever announced. I’m assuming that people know, and now that I’m my age that’s fine. “I don’t go out of my way because it’s my generation, I think. I’m probably as homophobic as any gay man alive because of my...

Xavier Colvin is a 20-year-old sophomore majoring in marketing at Butler University. He’s 5’9”, 210 pounds, has the nickname of "X," the son of a two-time Super Bowl winner, and is a linebacker for Butler’s football team. The reason that we’re talking about Colvin here is that in August he stood on stage in front of his fellow Butler Bulldogs and announced that he was gay. Colvin admits that he had known about his sexuality for years and before even entering...

The singer has previously addressed his sexuality to fans. Shawn Mendes fans were sent into a tizzy earlier this week after a fake tweet that appeared to be from his account suggested that the singer is gay. Earlier this week, a screenshot of a tweet that looked like it came from Shawn’s account appeared across social media. The fake tweet read: “Guys my sexuality shouldn’t be anyone’s business. Yes, i’m gay and i’m proud.” The tweet, which did not come from his...

The Blue Neighbourhood singer joins a star-studded cast for the 2018 film. Move over, Harry Styles. There’s a new heartthrob musician making the jump to film. Troye Sivan has just joined the cast of Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased, a “coming-of-age and “coming-out drama” based on a memoir about gay conversion therapy. In the original book, Garrard Conley’s Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family, Conley describes the situation he faced after being outed in his freshman year of...

'I've been hurled abuse, called a faggot, queer and fat drag queen' Tom Bleasby got his big break after he recorded a duet with pop superstar, Jessie J. Since then, he’s appeared on the Ellen Degeneres show and the UK X Factor, as well as opened for Jason Derulo. But there’s one thing he’s never mentioned publicly – he’s gay. Although he admits the ‘public certainly guessed,’ he addressed his sexuality on the Scott McGlynn Show. He talks about his decision to not talk...

An openly gay referee has officiated a professional football match for the first time in England. Last night, Ryan Atkin, who came out earlier this month , was the fourth referee for a game in the Checkatrade Trophy. And the match’s excitement level matched its historic nature, as Stevenage Borough was thrashed 6-2 by Oxford United in the cup game. The referee, who attended Cornwall Pride over the weekend, wrote after the match that it “was an absolute pleasure. ?” Since coming out,...

Jackson on his family support: 'I've got the best parents' World champion sprinting and hurdling athlete Colin Jackson casually came out as gay yesterday (27 August). He revealed his sexuality in a clip on Swedish television promoting the series Rainbow Heroes. On why he waited to reveal his sexuality, he said: ‘The way you asked me, it was a whole storytelling kind of thing and you were just interested in the way it affected me sports-wise, emotionally-wise and my preparation. ‘I think lots...

'I am a gay, Muslim, Arab-American man' Haaz Sleiman, actor and star of comedy-drama television show Nurse Jackie, came out as gay on Saturday (26 August). In a sassy Facebook post, he publicly came out for the first time since denying he was gay during an interview in 2009. In a touching video, he says: ‘A new study finds that more LGBTQ people living in the United States have been murdered so far this year than in 2016. ‘So this video is my...