Dealing with his sexuality was difficult for Lance Bass while he was in a boy band. In a new interview with Yahoo! Entertainment, the former *NSYNC singer opens up about what it was like being gay and in the closet early in his career. READ MORE: Lance Bass Finds Out He Is Sixth Cousins Once Removed With Britney Spears “Being in the entertainment industry, you get told certain things and they allude to certain things.
No one ever flat-out said, ‘Listen, if you’re gay, you can’t do this,” he says. “But they would [say] things like, ‘You know, if you have a girlfriend, you can’t really talk about them’ and ‘Remember your audience, your fans out there.