Tag: coming out

A father has spoken of how a technical hitch saw him come out to his family. The man shared his awkward story on Reddit, going only by the username Thrwwyniner. He described how he’d been going through a divorce when he downloaded the app, and had thought the situation was watertight. However an alleged glitch by Apple led his son – also on the family iTunes account – to discover some surprising apps. He had downloaded gay dating apps Scruff and DaddyHunt for...

A mother has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her gay son to death after a Christmas family row. 32-year-old Tatiana Lozano Pereira was arrested last month over the killing of her 17-year-old son Itaberli Lozano in their house in Cravinhos, Brazil. According to reports in local Portuguese-language media outlets, Lozano Pereira has long rejected his son because he is gay. However a row between the pair worsened over Christmas, and escalated when Lozano Pereira hired two thugs to “teach a lesson” to...

Could your coming of age story be a short film? I'm not sure if mine would be too exciting and I don't think casting Abercrombie-esque models would be an accurate representation, but I am sure producer Alexan Sarikamichian might be representing some of our readers' exploratory experience in COSMOS. COSMOS is the story of three friends spending a weekend in the woods where true feelings start to arise. Being away from home and surrounded by nature and themselves, makes their true...

Dustin Lance Black has called for gay sports stars to come out of the closet in a hope to promote further diversity among the sports community. Black, who is engaged to olympic diver Tom Daley, said that young LGBT people were too “afraid” to play sports such as football because of the lack of diverse role models. The oscar-winning screenwriter said he understands the difficulty, but urged for bravery. “It’s incredibly brave to come out. I understand that for some people that’s...

The UK’s first openly gay footballer has spoken out about his experience of coming out – and it’s not positive. Liam Davis, a winger for Gainsborough Trinity, came out in an interview with the Lincolnshire Echo. But he’s now said it’s not been easy coming out. Commenting on Greg Clarke’s comments about gay players coming out, the semi pro player says being the first out player is like being a “sacrificial lamb”. Davis told SunSport: “Although, in principle, I welcome the sentiment of...

CMT and iHeartRadio host Cody Alan came out as gay Thursday on Instagram! Cody posted: https://www.instagram.com/p/BPK4JA2gnPV/ Cody also opened up to PEOPLE about his new life and relationship (he's dating occupational therapist Michael Smith): “It’s awesome now because I have a partner, my ex has a boyfriend, and with our kids, we have this really beautiful, blended, loving, modern family that works for us,” he says. “My ex-wife is my greatest supporter; my kids are my greatest supporters!” Love it!! Congrats, Cody! Source

It’s no small secret there are scores of closeted athletes weighing their desire to live openly against the very real professional backlash that can come with coming out, and now one more former pro has revealed he’s gay. Adam McCabe has been a professional and semi-professional soccer player for teams in England, Thailand and Slovakia. He currently plays for a semi-pro team in the National Premier Soccer League in Atlanta, the Georgia Revolution. And yeah, he also happens to be...

Gay porn star Colby Keller opened up to Younger star Nico Tortorella on his podcast The Love Bomb and shared his traumatizing experience coming out to his parents. (His Evangelical Christian mother found his stash of gay porn under his bathroom sink.) As transcribed by Gay Star News: It took place with Keller on one side of his locked bedroom door and his parents on the other. ‘It was a real revelation,’ Keller says. ‘My father … he was really supportive. He was...

Adult film star Colby Keller went ahead and made Nico Tortorella cry during the most recent episode of the actor/model’s podcast The Love Bomb. Things started to get personal when Keller shared a story about how his parents reacted to the fact that he was gay when he was 15-years-old. Keller, who’s the youngest of four kids, kept a stash of gay adult meterial hidden under the bathroom sink and his mother found it one day. The box mysteriously vanished, and his parents told him...

We'd call this the Christmas gift of honesty! Imgur user Keegeroni gave his family a handmade gift this Christmas season: Keegeroni's Christmas present was a paper closet with a miniature version on himself inside proclaiming "I'm gay." He posted the present on the photo-sharing site, with a caption reading “I’m making my Christmas present for my family.” The response was overwhelming positive, though some commenters thought it wasn’t the most appropriate gift. “Why does it matter what you are?” complained one commenter,...

Olympian Gus Kenworthy and actor Matthew Wilkas have opened up about coming out and the beauty of their relationship. Talking to OUT, the couple spoke about how they met and how Kenworthy came out by announcing his relationship to Wilkas. “I wrote him this really long message on Instagram,” said the Olympic free skier. “I said, ‘Hey, I think you’re really funny, and you seem really sweet, and I’ve been enjoying following you on Instagram, and actually I’m in the closet right...

George Michael didn’t come out until 1998, and when he did it was global news. The popstar, who had become famous in the 80s with Wham, concealed his sexuality for much of his career. Although he’s reported as being openly gay in his private life from the age of 19, he didn’t share the fact with the world until much later. The star set-up by a cop who caught him in the act of soliciting sex at a public toilets. It was a...

A gay guy still not out has taken to the internet to answer one of life’s most important questions – why does he receive a load of really gay targeted ads on Facebook. Saying he is careful to use the incognito mode on Google Chrome, Reddit user newyorkansun writes that nobody knows he is gay, so he can’t understand how Facebook does. He writes: “Alright, so. I’m not out yet. “However, Facebook for the past couple months has been sending me targeted...

The 11-time Paralympic gold medallist talks sport and sexuality. This summer’s Olympic and Paralympic games showed the world how relatively progressive athletics is when it comes to sexuality, with more out and proud athletes competing than ever before. Equestrian Lee Pearson, who trotted his way to a silver medal at Rio, was one of nine openly LGBT Paralympians competing at the games, and in Attitude’s January issue – available to download and in shops now, the 42-year-old reveals how horse dressage has embraced...