Tag: coming out

A Polish couple have been sent death threats after their beautiful coming out video went viral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sGI1DrvZ2w Polish TV presenter and journalist Jakub Hajduk and his partner David, shot the adorable coming out video over 3 days in July at the Baltic Sea. However, the couple were sent abusive messages online. The couple were told to “cut their throats”, whilst other said that they wanted to “send them to the gas chamber.” The couple also received private messages on their Facebook accounts with...

A gaggle of LGBTQ paranormal investigators from Columbus, Ohio have joined together for Queer Ghost Hunters, a new reality web series with a simple mission: To locate gay ghosts and assist them in coming out in the afterlife. No, this is not a joke. This is totally, 100 percent serious. The show, we mean. The existence of gay ghosts, on the other hand, cannot be confirmed or denied. Equipped with rainbow flags and “lavender cams,” the investigators poke around old insane asylums, abandoned bathhouses, empty prisons, “well-appointed mansions,”...

Rev. Danny Cortez had spent over two decades as a Southern Baptist pastor, and as such was not supportive of homosexuality. When his son came out as gay in 2014, he had a monumental change of heart that would shake up his church. Rev. Cortez decided he needed to preach a message of support for his son and to let his congregation know not only that he had changed him mind on the matter, but also why. “That morning I came to...

Melodifestivalen star and fashion blogger Viktor Frisk has come out, revealing “I like both girls and boys”. The star of the Melodifestivalen, which Sweden hosts each year to pick its Eurovision entry, wrote on social media to announce that he is attracted to men and women. He opted not to put a label on his sexual orientation in the post. Writing on Facebook and Instagram, the star said: “I would never make a big deal of this. Do not think it matters very much...

American Idol alum David Hernandez has come out as gay in a new interview with Out magazine. Out reports: In 2008, Hernandez made it onto the reality competition series American Idol, landing in the top 12 before being eliminated. Rumors, however, quickly started circulating about the “real reason” Hernandez was sent home. Viewers bombarded Hernandez with comments about his past as a male stripper and soon questioned his sexuality, wondering if it influenced his exit from Idol. Hernandez has said members...

Apple‘s Tim Cook said Anderson Cooper had an important influence on his decision to come out as gay, which he did in 2014, making him the first CEO of a Fortune 500 company to do so. Cook spoke with the Washington Post in a wide ranging interview on Saturday, and answered questions about his coming out process. Cook says it took about a year. “Just thinking through what to say, how to say it, where to say it, how to do that in...

Ollie Locke has revealed he’s gay and wants to have his first relationship with a man. The Made In Chelsea star came out after breaking up with ex-girlfriend Catherine Louise Radford. Locke has previously described himself as bisexual in the past, but claims he’s never had sex with a man. “It’s the first time the viewers have seen me as gay instead of bi,” he told The Sun. “I do say the words ‘I am a gay man’ “I lived with a woman last...

The Olympic diver says his relationship with Dustin Lance Black gave him the courage to be who he really is. Tom Daley has opened up about the moment he told his mum that he was in a relationship with another man – saying coming out was much easier than he originally thought. The diver told his mum about his relationship with Dustin Lance Black during a birthday celebration to which he’d invited his new boyfriend. “My mum had no idea. It was just...

Where I grew up, in the South, the concept of homosexuality was limited only to tidings of damnation to all those guilty of indulgence. Where being a color other than white was a crime, to be gay was to be the spawn of Satan. It was here that I, a freshman at our small town’s deeply Christian high school found out who I truly was. My parents had moved there from Alabama when I was 8. As soon as I...

I know it is a very personal decision to get out of the closet but the idea behind this entry is to encourage those who are doubtful, there is a whole world out there for gay people and you are missing a great part of it if you keep yourself in a small closet for the rest of your life. When you are into the closet you can't express yourself the way you are. You have to be acting all...

Openly gay actor from The Real O'Neals, Noah Galvin started a fire with his commentaries regarding Colton Haynes coming out as gay. Galvin said that Colton Haynes' come out was not real, that what he did was just "giving them more masturbation material." Regarding Colton Haynes come out in EW magazine, Galvin said: "That’s like, enough people assume that I sleep with men, so I’m just going to slightly confirm the fact that I’ve sucked a dick or two." We guess...

23-year-old Daniel Rodriguez has just been crowned this year’s winner of International Mister Spain. He competed with other 47 men but the jury chose him. After the big win, Rodriguez came out as gay publicly. His friends and family knew about his sexuality. My family knows I’m gay, my friends too. And I’m living in such a positive way with my sexuality that I felt a responsibility to share it with others,” Gutiérrez said. “There have been more than 70 homophobic attacks...

Last month, water polo Olympic star Víctor Gutiérrez came out as gay just before attending the Rio Games. The athlete took the decision to come out in the hope that others will follow his example. ‘I hope my coming out serves to break a taboo within the sport,’ he said. ‘You have to be judged not by your sexuality but by your sporting merit.’ And it seems that results came shortly after. Another major sports figure from Spain decided it was time...

For Christian rock star Trey Pearson life has always been led by religious beliefs, so, for more than 20 years he denied his sexuality. 'Most of us reach at least one pivotal moment in our lives that better defines who we are,’ Pearson says. ‘These last several months have been the hardest—but also have ended up being the most freeing months—of my life. To make an extremely long story short, I have come to be able to admit to myself,...