Tag: coming out

"Are you okay with having a gay son?" In a clip from the next episode of Black Ink Crew, one of the newest tattoo artists on the series, Kevin Laroy, finally decides to come out to his father. In the scene, Kevin’s father visits Kevin at his New York apartment. The two haven’t seen each other in a few years, so Kevin is “definitely nervous to open up to him” about his sexuality, as he confesses in the clip. After some liquid...

Dancing on Ice star Matt Evers has come out. The 41-year-old professional ice skater — who’s coming back to the ITV series on Sunday after a four-year hiatus — talks openly about his homosexuality in Attitude‘s upcoming travel issue. He’ll be paired up with Candice Brown, the Great British Bake Off winner, when he returns to the show this weekend. Once married to a woman, Evers reveals his uncle died 20 years ago from an HIV/AIDS-related illness and had been “banished” from...

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Parrow, of Orlando, Florida, speaks publicly about his sexuality for the first time A professional wrestler based in Orlando, Florida, has spoken publicly about his sexuality for the first time. Mike Parrow, 34, says he finally decided to come out to friends, family and fellow wrestlers around four years ago. This was around the same time that he met, and fell in love with, the man who he recently asked to be his husband. Standing 6’4” and weighing 300lbs, Parrow...

KSHB's Gary Lezak has been on the air since 1999. A Kansas City weatherman took his holiday message as an opportunity to come out to viewers as gay and in a relationship. On December 19, KSHB Channel 41 weatherman Gary Lezak wrote that he’s been out to coworkers and friends for some time. https://twitter.com/glezak/status/943309487502450688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newnownext.com%2Fkansas-city-weatherman-comes-out-as-gay-and-married-hes-the-one-who-makes-me-whole%2F12%2F2017%2F “Although I have been out to myself for many years since I was a teenager, it wasn’t until I was around 20 years old, in 1982, when I finally...

What an inspiring story! Jake Bain, the star football player at John Burroughs High School in St. Louis, Missouri, came out in an emotional speech delivered at a school assembly back in October. He said: "Most people don't have to come out. Most people don't have to worry they'll be judged simply based on who they're attracted to." And now, just a few months later, he's signed on to play football for Indiana State. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bc70DHkAO54/ Speaking to KSDK, Bain explained that he came out to...

Aaron Carter is opening up to talk about his sexuality on the latest episode of the LGBTQ&A podcast. Back in August, Carter came out as bisexual to his fans and followers in a post shared to Twitter. Then shortly thereafter, he told TMZ: "I had an experience when I was 17 with a guy, but now as an almost 30-year-old man, I’m going to be pursuing relationships with women." But now, having taken time to address some health concerns, it would appear as...

Rev. Gregory Greiten told his congregation this past Sunday, “I am Greg. I am a Roman Catholic priest. And, yes, I am gay!" The priest serves the St. Bernadette Parish in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and after coming out to them he then came out the rest of the world through a column in the National Catholic Reporter. In the article, Greiten says that even though there are somewhere between 8,554 and 21,571 gay Catholic priests in the United States (a number he...

'If a single footballer or referee is helped and encouraged by me coming out, my coming out has paid off.' Pascal Erlachner has come out as gay. He is believed to be the first man in Swiss professional football to come out. The referee hopes that his coming out will start public discussion around the taboo of being gay in football. Erlachner came out in an interview with Swiss newspaper Blick. He explained he feels he can come out now as he is comfortable...

Now we’ll be honest, this isn’t a story about a gay teen boy. Instead, it’s about a teen girl. Yes, that shouldn’t matter, but often female driven stories don’t trend well on sites like Instinct. That said, when you have such a charming and sincere story as Elle Mills’s, you have to share it no matter what. But who’s Elle Mills? Mills is a 19-year-old Canadian youtube who creates stories in her videos. The videos are not quite vlogs but they do...

Retired rugby player Sam Stanley is sharing his experiences about coming out as the first openly gay rugby player and his eventual departure from the sport. 25-year-old Stanley had a fine career in rugby. He played for England through five Sevens World Series and became the first English professional rugby union player to come out as gay in 2015, but, unfortunately, he left the sport after having suffered from too many injuries. “Certain injuries can be hit and miss,” he told...

He's the first professional basketballer to come out as gay in Israel Uri Kokia became the first Israeli professional basketballer to come out as gay on Wednesday (29 November). The 36-year-old is a striker for Hapoel, the second division of Israel’s Ramat Gan. ‘After many years of fear, I am now completely calm,’ he said in an interview with ynet.co.il. ‘I want to show you can make a long and glorious career as a gay man. ‘The fear of coming out of the...

Philadelphia is continuing its efforts to hold public conversations about diversity and inclusivity in the gay community after several club owners and community leaders displayed racism in the past few years. In that vein, The AARP hosted an event last night in collaboration with SAGE and the City of Philadelphia’s Office of LGBT Affairs in order to discuss cross-cultural challenges that the LGBTQ community constantly deal with. "The City of Philadelphia is here to help our diverse population," said Amber Hikes,...

Dame Angela Lansbury talked to Radio Times about her first marriage to Richard Cromwell (who eventually came out as gay). Lansbury married Cromwell in 1945 when she was 19 and he was 35, but the marriage only lasted a year. After that however, the two remained good friends, Cromwell even befriended Lansbury’s next husband Peter Shaw, until Cromwell’s death in 1960. In her interview to Radio Times, Lansbury confesses that she “had no idea that was marrying a gay man." "I...

Mark Foster is a five-time British Olympic swimmer, a six-time world champion, a setter of eight world records, and a BBC sports commentator. And now adding to that list, Foster has come out as gay. The 47-year-old commentator spoke to the Guardian to share his truth because despite having a good support group of friends and family in private, he was tired of lying to the public. "It’s not like I’ve been pushed to come out,” he told the Guardian, “I’ve just...