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After g out as gay 2021, former 'Bachelor' star Colton Unrwood is engaged to boyiend Jordan C. Brown

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COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY

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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe 29-year-old former football player had wrten about qutng his sexualy a memoir, published Shotwell/Invisn, via Richard Shotwell, via Invisn, via Associated PrsColton Unrwood, a star of “The Bachelor” and a former football player, me out as gay an terview wh Rob Roberts that aired Wednday on “Good Morng Ameri.

And I’m gay. “I would have rather died than say, ‘I’m gay.

“‘You know, Colt, we’d still love you and support you if you were gay, ’” he relled his mother tellg father was more nontatnal.

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“He’d pulled up the history of recent Google search, which clud gay porn s and a variety of qutns: ‘Am I gay?

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How do you know if you’re gay? )In s 20 years, the anchise has never featured an all-gay st. “I’m gay, ” he told anchor Rob Roberts, shaken though visibly relieved.

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I’m hant to ame Unrwood’s g out as some kd of signifint “gay first”, given how such narrativ often end up portrayg LGBTQ+ people as new, as if we haven’t been here the whole time. “The media that make visible simultaneoly obscure our prence history by ntually amg trans people [and, this stance wh Unrwood, gay people] as new, as a morn, medilized phenomenon only now g to light, ” wrer and artist Man M Page wrote 2017.

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Other nttants have, siar to Unrwood, publicly e out after filmg all that md, feels like would be a real missed opportuny for the Bachelor powers that be to not rest Unrwood for the anchise’s first-ever Actually Gay season wh an Actually Gay would the first gay season of The Bachelor look like? That was one of the first major attempts at givg gay guys the gay versn of The Bachelor so many longed for, though greatly hred self by secretly addg a bunch of straight men to the st whout rmg s starrg bachelor first.

FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

Drawg on stereotyp about gay people beg ceptive and untstworthy? Though for all the ways that Fdg Prce Charmg provid better reprentatn than s spirual precsor, was also borg – seemgly more ncerned about provg to viewers that gay men’s romantic aspiratns were every b as normal as their straight unterparts than wh pictg gay men on their own The Bachelor portrayed love eply heteropatriarchal terms (multiple women pete for the attentn of a sgle man, lookg for monogamy and, of urse, marriage), Fdg Prce Charmg simply gave the long-nng seri a h at of homosexual pat. Could the first gay season of The Bachelor offer somethg different om what the aforementned rivativ spired gave years past?

), I’d want s hypothetil first-ever gay season to look somethg like MTV’s sexually fluid 2019 season of Are You the One? I’d love to see a Bachelor season do new thgs like acknowledge the probable sexual tensn between the nttants, and a gay season of The Bachelor seems as well poised as any to explore that terrory. Somethg tells me that we wouldn’t see that kd of sex-posive change of format on the first gay season of The Bachelor though.

) So, maybe I don’t really want a gay season of The Bachelor after all? "And I'm gay.

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Ms Randolph then filed for a rtrag orr agast Mr Unrwood, accg him of stalkg her, but she later requted the police vtigatn be source, Getty ImagImage ptn, In The Bachelor, he chose nttant Cassie RandolphMr Unrwood said he cid to e out after the panmic h, addg that was a time which forced people to "look at themselv the mirror and figure out who they are and what they've been nng om or what they've been puttg off their liv" said he had been aware of his sexualy for a long time, knowg he "jt felt different" om the age of Unrwood said he "learned the Bible that gay is a s" Catholic school. Durg his time playg football, he relled the term "gay" held "a nnotatn of negativy". "I thk there's a lot of thgs, when I look back, I'm like, 'No wonr I held , '" he may also be terted : Media ptn, Kenh Felts has e out as gay at 90 years old...

The former Bachelor nttant me out as gay April 2021 and has been attached to Brown sce last fall. Unrwood then me out as gay April 2021 an terview wh Rob Roberts on Good Morng Ameri, and went on to star on Netflix docu-seri Comg Out Colton, tracg Unrwood's own g out journey and teractns wh other notable gay public figur.

He was the first lead of The Bachelor anchise to e out as gay. Related ntent: Former Bachelor Colton Unrwood out as gayStars celebrate newly out Bachelor alum Colton Unrwood: 'You're ee now'Why Comg Out Colton is a major fumble Episo Reps Zach on the season fale of The Bachelor S27 E10 Rep The Bachelor fale rep: Zach go om 'eak-out mo' to pickg a fiancée By Kristen Baldw The Bachelor rep.

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