Gareth said: “The most surprising thing out of everything is the acceptance of the level of abuse – the normality that abuse has been given. I find that unacceptable.
“It’s a human right that we are allowed to be who we want to be – but within this game if you’re not the stereotypical male or female we expect you to be then we’re allowed to abuse you for 90 minutes. I would give my right arm to sit down in a room with one of these people, just to understand their views.”
Gareth talks about the tormenting years before he came out, and the struggles he had with hiding his sexuality.
But it’s not all bad. He also talks about the fantastic support he got when he finally came out.
He said: “It took my team-mates, my friends, my family, probably 30 seconds of contemplation to be able to say ‘it doesn’t matter’. And to me, all of a sudden, life was completely different.”
Greyson Chance, the 19-year-old YouTube star who was made famous by Ellen DeGeneres, has come out as gay.
Greyson’s performance of Lady Gaga’s ‘Paparazzi’ at a sixth-grade talent show has had almost 60 million on YouTube views since 2010.
When the ‘Paparazzi’ performance went viral, Ellen invited him to her show and subsequently signed him to her label, eleveneleven.
Ellen was also quick to congratulate him when he just came out. “.@greysonchance, I was proud of you when we met 7 years ago and I’m proud of you now,” she wrote on Twitter after Grayson posted his coming out statement on Instagram.
“The decision to write this came after I received a message from a brave individual. Such message inspired me to shed light on an aspect of my private life which I have kept distant from my career in music,” Grayson writes in his Instagram post (which has later been removed).
“I came to fully recognize that I was gay when I was sixteen. I decided not to publicize my sexuality largely due to a matter of privacy, as I was still trying to find comfort and confidence within my own skin.”
‘Teen Vogue’ editor Phillip Picardi posts golden tweet storm after right-wing christian nutjobs attack the magazine
Last week, ‘Teen Vogue’ published an exhaustive health-oriented guide to safe anal sex, which quite predictively infuriated the right.
Among those that were shocked and appalled over the sex ed piece was “The Activist Mommy,” who posted a video of herself burning the magazine while decrying that the editors’ brains are “in the gutter.”
The fact that the article was never printed in the magazine but only posted online didn’t exactly make the magazine burning any less ridiculous.
Christian site The Stream, published a story with this awesome headline: “The Predator in the Fashion Magazine: Teen Vogue Coaches Teenagers in Sodomy.”
“Wake up, Moms and Dads! A magazine produced for your teenage daughters is giving them explicit instructions on how to be sodomized,” they wrote.
“It is teaching them to be used by a guy, in a very dangerous way, for his pleasure and satisfaction. It is giving the clear message to every teenage boy that it’s perfectly acceptable to sodomize a girl, to use her, even physically hurt her for the sake of an orgasm.
“It is glorifying as good, normal and healthy, the harmful practice of homosexual sex.”
Actor Thomas Dekker has come out as gay in a post on Instagram and reveals he’s married to a man
The 29-year-old actor, who starred in ‘Heroes’ and ‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,’ writes that he married his husband in April.
Thomas claims he was forced out of the closet after famous gay director Brian Fuller made a statement at Outfest which the actor says practically outed him.
“I had a brief stint on Heroes, where the gay character was ‘hetwashed’ after the actor’s management threatened to pull him from the show if he—the character, not the actor— were gay,” Brian said in his acceptance speech.
Even though Thomas has not officially been out of the closet until now, the actor hinted that he was bisexual in an interview with Out in 2011.
“My sexual orientation once again came into question this week when a prominent gay man used an awards acceptance speech to ‘out’ me. While he did not mention me by name, the explicit details of his reference made it easy for the public and media to connect the dots.
“While it is an odd situation, I thank him because it presents a prime opportunity for me to publicly say that I am indeed a man who proudly loves other men. In fact, this April, I married my husband and I could not be happier.
“I have never lied to the press about the fluidity of my sexuality but this man claiming that I came out is not true. Because I have not ‘officially’ until this moment. I simply refuse to be robbed of the glorious joy that belongs to me. To say the words myself. ‘I’m gay’. Those words are a badge of honor that no one can steal.
“Sexuality and who you love is a deeply personal and complicated thing. For some of us, it takes to cultivate, discover and conclude. It is not something anyone should ever be ashamed of and certainly not something anyone should be rushed into….
“I agree with many who believe it is an important responsibility for LGBTQ persons with a platform to come out. It has the power to change minds, challenge beliefs and make others feel understood and supported. It can strengthen the progression of our community and help disarm those who discriminate against us.
“It is a brave, powerful and important thing to do but it is also a deeply personal decision. One that should only be made when you are ready.
“If we are to stand strong in the gay community, our mission should be support, not exclusion; love, not shame. I choose not to look back on the past with a regretful heart but rather focus on the future with a hopeful one. A future where myself and all others can feel free to express their true selves with honor and dignity.
“I embrace you, any of you, with open arms, kindness, faith and patience. For all of you who have supported me, before and now, I thank you from the bottom of my fledgling heart.
“Be proud of who you are. No matter how long it takes.”
Welcome out of the closet, Thomas Dekker! And congratulations on your marriage. I wish you and your husband all the best.
Thomas Alexander Dekker was born December 28, 1987 in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.
What is he famous for?
Dekker is an actor and singer. He is most known for playing John Connor in the Fox Television series, “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”.
Starting out as a child actor, Dekker has appeared in numerous TV shows and movies including “The Nanny”, “Seinfeld”, “”Star Trek Voyager” and “7th Heaven”.
He played the role of “Zach” on the NBC show “Heroes” in 2006 to 2007 and “Adam Conant” in The CW’s “The Secret Circle”.
As a voice actor, Dekker has worked on “Family Guy” and “Fillmore”.
As a child, Dekker has a musical background and signed an unproductive record deal at age 15.
Afterward, he concentrated on making his own music, a mix of classical and electronic music.
He released his first album, “Psyanotic”, in 2008.
Is Thomas Dekker gay?
For years Dekker never spoke about his sexuality. In an interview with Out Magazine in 2011, Dekker said he was open to relationships with both men and women.
Dekker came out publicly as gay via Twitter on July 13, 2017. At the same time he announced his recent marriage to actor Jesse Haddock in April 2017.
Kansas State offensive tackle Scott Frantz came out to his Wildcats teammates during a team-building exercise
He is the third active FBS player ever to reveal publicly that he is gay.
“I came out to my teammates, and I’ve never felt so loved and so accepted ever in my life than when I did that,” Scott told ESPN. “And ever since then it’s been great. I’ve grown so much closer to my teammates since. So it’s been an amazing experience.”
Frantz divulged his sexual orientation to his teammates when Wildcats coach Bill Snyder brought in a motivational speaker. During the session, the players were asked to reveal details about themselves that they had never shared with anyone else.
“So the very first time I said those words were in front of, you know, 110, 120 football guys,” Scott said. “So you can imagine how scared I was, how nervous I was. … This could go either really bad or could go really good. And thankfully my teammates embraced me with open arms, and it was great.”
Scott told ESPN that he knew he was gay in the fifth grade but didn’t really accept it until he got into his junior year of high school. He told his family a week after he made the announcement to his teammates.
Wildcats coach Bill Snyder told ESPN that even though he didn’t know about Scott’s sexuality when he recruited him, it wouldn’t have made any difference if he did. He also believed Scott’s teammates would be as accepting as him.
“I was quite comfortable that they would be very receptive and that they would treat him as they always said,” Bill told ESPN, “as, you know, his teammate and someone that they cared about. And they did.”
Scott started 13 games for Kansas State last season and says in the interview that he thinks it’s important to go public with the fact he is gay to help others feel accepted.
