Wayne Brady Confesses He Felt Like a ‘Sham’ Before Publicly Coming Out As Pansexual
usmagazine.comWayne Brady confessed that not telling anyone he was pansexual made him feel conflicted over the years.“I’ve always had a wonderful community of friends who are in the LGBTQ+ community, people that I’ve grown up with in shows, gays and lesbians, and, later in life, my trans relatives and my niece,” Brady, 51, said in an interview with People on Monday, August 7. “I’ve always had that community, but I’ve always felt like a sham because I wasn’t being forthcoming with myself.”Brady went on to say it was easier for him to “speak out about Black issues” because he couldn’t hide that part of his identity.
However, that wasn’t the case for his sexual identity“And you can play at being an ally, but until the day that you can truly say, ‘This is who I am, and I wanna stand next to you,’ that’s not … I always wanted that day to come,” he confessed. “I’ve told myself in the past, also, nobody needs to know my personal business.
The world can absolutely go without knowing that Wayne identifies as pan.”He continued: “But that gave me license to still live in the shadows and to be secretive.
What does that feel like to actually not be shameful, to not feel like, ‘Oh, I can’t be part of this conversation because I’m lying?’ I had to break that behavior.”Brady revealed that the first person he came out to was his ex-wife Mandie Taketa.
