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• COLTON HAYN CONFIRMS HE'S GAY: 'IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO GET TO THIS POT, BUT I'M DOG SO GOOD'
• COLTON HAYN: 'I WAS TOLD THAT MY DAD KILLED HIMSELF BEE HE FOUND OUT I WAS GAY'
• COLTON HAYN WAS TOLD HE WAS 'TOO GAY' WHEN HE GOT TO HOLLYWOOD — AND WAS ACHED TO HI
• COLTON HAYN WAS TOLD HE WAS 'TOO GAY' WHEN HE GOT TO HOLLYWOOD — AND WAS ACHED TO HI
• COLTON HAYN SAYS HE'S STOPPED GETTG ROL SCE G OUT AS GAY
• IS COLTON HAYN GAY? KNOW ABOUT HIS AFFAIRS AND RELATNSHIP
• 'ARROW' STAR COLTON HAYN OPENS UP ABOUT BEG GAY HOLLYWOOD
• COLTON HAYN SAYS HE ALMOST WASN'T ST TEEN WOLF BEE OF GAY MEN'S MAGAZE SHOOT HE DID
• COLTON HAYN SAYS HE ALMOST DIDN’T GET ‘TEEN WOLF’ ROLE OVER GAY MAG
• COLTON HAYN SAYS HE IS GAY AND 'HAPPIER THAN EVER'
• COLTON HAYN: MTV BOSS NEARLY REJECTED ME FROM ‘TEEN WOLF’ OVER PAST GAY PHOTOSHOOT
• COLTON HAYN WAS OPENLY GAY. THEN, HE MOVED TO HOLLYWOOD.

COLTON HAYN CONFIRMS HE'S GAY: 'IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO GET TO THIS POT, BUT I'M DOG SO GOOD'

Colton Hayn Confirms He's Gay: 'It Took Me So Long to Get to This Pot, but I'm Dog So Good'. In this week’s issue of Entertament Weekly, the former Arrow star publicly addrsed his sexualy for the first time, officially g out as gay. Speculatn started January after he reblogged a fan’s Tumblr post about his “secret gay past” and rpond: “Was a secret?

“People who are so judgmental about those who are gay or different don’t realize that actg 24 hours a day is the most exhstg thg the world. Though Colton Hayn said that publicly g out as gay has ma him happier than ever, was a btersweet end to a longtime stggle that began at home.

COLTON HAYN: 'I WAS TOLD THAT MY DAD KILLED HIMSELF BEE HE FOUND OUT I WAS GAY'

’ But I was told that my dad killed himself bee he found out I was gay.

Though Hayn has known that he was gay sce the first gra, he veiled his sexual orientatn for fear that would negatively impact his reer.

“Then, all of a sudn, I’m the worst, I’m a terrible person, and I’m a shame to the gay muny. In a new first-person say, Colton Hayn shar his experience of navigatg Hollywood as a gay teen and now actor, 33, om MTV’s Teen Wolf and the CW's Arrow, wr about his heartbreakg journey, g to L. He faced moralizg experienc along the way — like beg ached to be ls gay and beg directed to act out graphic sex scen.

COLTON HAYN WAS TOLD HE WAS 'TOO GAY' WHEN HE GOT TO HOLLYWOOD — AND WAS ACHED TO HI

"To be a gay actor Hollywood, even 2021, is to be undated wh mixed msag: Consumers are mostly straight, so don’t alienate them, " Hayn, who officially me out 2016, wr a Vulture say. "But lots of the cisn-makers are gay, so play that game! That year, he began go-go dancg at a gay bar Wicha and "felt at home there.

" The next year, he got his first molg agent and he and his then-boyiend, Jay, posed for a gay magaze lled XY. Then the owner of a management pany, who Hayn lls "Brad" for the story, exprsed tert potentially reprentg immediately, Brad told Hayn, "We’re fely gog to have to change your mannerisms, " sayg the way the openly gay teen spoke and stood were too "theater, " which was " for gay.

COLTON HAYN WAS TOLD HE WAS 'TOO GAY' WHEN HE GOT TO HOLLYWOOD — AND WAS ACHED TO HI

Gay, " Hayn was told. He later looked at the ntact and was for “, " a se for sex said he knew beg an actor wouldn't be easy, but he didn't know that "the thg that ma me valuable private — my nspicuoly gay sexualy — was a liabily as I tried to make my way through the dtry. " Hayn set the scene for the time, the mid-ghts, "when sual homophobia was still a regular punch le on TV ss, Morn Fay wouldn’t premiere until a few years after I arrived L.

There are still few gay leadg men Hollywood who are out of the closet. I practiced speakg wh a fold Post- note unr my tongue to teach me to make my S sounds ls sibilant, sce the softns of them ma me sound gay. However, "I unrstood bee was explaed to me repeatedly — by managers, agents, publicists, executiv, producers — that the only thg standg between me and the reer I wanted was that I was gay.

He said his handlers would "send cease-and-sist letters" to any webs that rurfaced his old XY gay magaze photo shoot pix. Now, the only dns I get are for gay characters, which rema sparse. It’s no different for the young gay actors I see g up today, tryg to make a system that isn’t built for them.

COLTON HAYN SAYS HE'S STOPPED GETTG ROL SCE G OUT AS GAY

"He wrote about those "mixed msag" for gay actors Hollywood, and how he qutns where he would be — personally and profsnally — had he jt gotten to be himself when he arrived Hollywood stead of hidg the real him.

In an emotnal Instagram post over the weekend, the 32-year-old actor shared an image of the March 2006 ver of XY Magaze, a long-nng, gay publitn.

"Partly bee so many ppl Hollywood told me I would never work as an openly gay actor, but part of was bee I was credibly ashamed.

IS COLTON HAYN GAY? KNOW ABOUT HIS AFFAIRS AND RELATNSHIP

""Beg gay is worth celebratg, " Colton nclud his heartfelt post before wishg all of his followers and supporters a happy Pri Month. After speculatn about his sexualy started circulatg onle, Colton cid to publicly and openly live his tth 2016, and sce then, he has regularly been bookg projects as a film and TV actor and has bee a great example of what means to be an out and proud gay man. But I felt like I was lettg people down by not g forward wh the rt of what I should have who are so judgmental about those who are gay or different don't realize that actg 24 hours a day is the most exhstg thg the world, " Colton told Entertament Weekly at the time.

'ARROW' STAR COLTON HAYN OPENS UP ABOUT BEG GAY HOLLYWOOD

"RELATED | Colton Hayn, Elt Glazer Are Workg On a TV Show About InstaGays. Colton Hayn, who is bt known for playg Jackson Teen Wolf and Arsenal Arrow, publicly me out as gay 2016.

COLTON HAYN SAYS HE ALMOST WASN'T ST TEEN WOLF BEE OF GAY MEN'S MAGAZE SHOOT HE DID

Colton Hayn has opened up about beg gay the actg dtry and how hard 's been to fd rol sce he me 2016, Colton Hayn publicly me out as gay after mours about his sexualy and photos om his past surfaced onle. "Now, Colton has revealed how that cisn has impacted his reer and lled out Hollywood for failg gay MORE: Teen Wolf revival movie nfirmed wh origal st returng. Colton Hayn says he's stopped gettg rol sce g out as gay.

"The 33-year-old ntued: "It’s no different for the young gay actors I see g up today, tryg to make a system that isn’t built for them. To be a gay actor Hollywood, even 2021, is to be undated wh mixed msag: Consumers are mostly straight, so don’t alienate them. But lots of the cisn-makers are gay, so play that game!

Though he adms that he is gay, I don’t know why people are so agast the system or ‘Beg Gay’. Is Colton Hayn Gay?

COLTON HAYN SAYS HE ALMOST DIDN’T GET ‘TEEN WOLF’ ROLE OVER GAY MAG

Y, do appear jt as he is gay and a tly glad one.

For stance, he om a place lled Andale, Kansas and that you n’t be ‘Gay’ there, no matter what. He says “I was told that my dad killed himself bee he found out I was gay. So, spe all thgs, is he really Gay?

COLTON HAYN SAYS HE IS GAY AND 'HAPPIER THAN EVER'

And: Teen Wolf's Colton Hay out as gay.

"Teen Wolf" star Colton Hayn appeared to open up about his sexualy a y social media post some media outlets have emed his public g Tumblr, a er wrote of the 27-year-old actor, "When I found out Colton Hayn had a secret gay past, I got so exced even though i know mak absolutely no difference my life. Let’s all jt enjoy life & have no regrets:)Although the "Arrow" actor has th far remaed tight-lipped about the meang behd his remark, a number of publitns have terpreted the post as him publicly acknowledgg that he's gay.

COLTON HAYN: MTV BOSS NEARLY REJECTED ME FROM ‘TEEN WOLF’ OVER PAST GAY PHOTOSHOOT

The "secret gay past" that the Tumblr er was referencg uld refer to a March 2006 photo seri that ran the now-funct publitn XY which purportedly showed Hayn kissg another 2013, Hayn was spotted an airport holdg hands wh his "Arrow" -star, John Barrowman, who is gay. Meanwhile, Hayn has a gay brother, Joshua.

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Colton Hayn opens up about the challeng of beg openly gay Hollywood. — -- "Arrow" star Colton Hayn took Hollywood to task for what he says is s poor treatment of gay actor, who me out publicly an terview wh Entertament Weekly May 2016, took to Twter on Tuday to rail agast homophobia Hollywood. "He thanked the openly gay creators of those three seri for stg him.

COLTON HAYN WAS OPENLY GAY. THEN, HE MOVED TO HOLLYWOOD.

He has prevly said he first disclosed beg gay when he was 14. In a 2016 terview wh Out magaze, Hayn said he was told by someone that his g out as gay played a role his father’s ath: a vastatg thought for someone still g to terms wh their sexualy.

Like many gay men, some parts of Colton’s life have been challengg. When his profile began to rise, some homoerotic photos he shot for XY magaze when he was a teenager began to surface on the ter.