Coming out: Last News

Victorian father of four, Shaun Williams, 53, kept his sexuality a secret for almost 25 years.  “I had to decide between coming out, losing my family and my amazing wife or ending it all to get away from the pain I knew I was going to cause everyone.” In an interview with Daily Mail, Williams said, “I suppressed it, I decided it would be something I would die with. I grew up in the 80s when there was a lot of gay-bashing, and the grim reaper with the AIDS ads made it, so I was too frightened to come out.”Eventually, not being himself started to affect his mental health. “I was struggling with depression and anxiety, I wasn’t being honest with myself,” he said.“My oldest daughter came out at 16, and two of my other children have come out as queer since.

A 17-year-old is the first actively out professional soccer player in Britain since 1990.Blackpool’s Jake Daniels is the first member of the Premier League in over 20 years to be out while actively playing soccer. In an interview on Monday with British media outlet Sky News, Jake Daniels came out as gay. In the video, Daniels explained he felt it was time after “such a long time of lying” about his identity. Daniels was signed as a forward onto the Blackpool team in February of 2022.

3 min read In a plot twist that not even TV’s break out hit Ted Lasso has tackled (pardon the pun), 17-year-old Jake Daniels has become the first UK male professional footballer in more than 30 years to come out as gay and has been praised for his bravery by everyone, including Josh Cavallo, the Australian player whose […]

Fox Sports reporter Megan Barnard, who was dramatically outed by a former colleague, has spoken out about the incident and how it impacted her life in a revealing new interview.Speaking with Stellar, Barnard, 37, said,“No one should ever be forced to come out before they’re ready, it can be dangerous.”Barnard was relating her personal experience of being outed by her former colleague, AFL journalist Tom Morris, who made disparaging remarks about Bernard’s sexuality in an audio clip posted to a WhatsApp group chat. The leaked audio was made public in March, and outed Barnard, who prior to the leak was not public with being gay.Barnard, who has been a sports presenter for Fox Sports since 2013, told Stellar, “People have messaged to share their stories, struggles and fears of coming out — and of being outed.”“I have tried to respond to everyone that has contacted me. If this resonates with just one person and makes them realise it’s OK to be gay, that it’s not something to hide or run from then sitting down for this article has been worth it,” Barnard said.“I knew I was gay from the age of 12… It was such a painful time during my teens, feeling what I was feeling and desperately wanting those thoughts to go away and to be like everyone else,” Barnard said.“I tried to fight it for years because we had all been taught that being gay ‘wasn’t normal. It was just so overwhelming, it was the elephant in the room.

On Thursday last week, Fox Sports presenter Megan Barnard’s personal life was made devastatingly public following a leaked  WhasApp audio, which allegedly contained sexist and homophobic slurs made against her by former colleague Tom Morris. The incident showed that homophobia and sexism is still extremely rampant in the sports industry and in the broader mainstream culture.Morris was sacked on Friday from Fox Sports due to the “unacceptable” remarks which were shared widely on social media. Morris took to to apologise, admitting he had demonstrated “disgusting and disgraceful” behaviour.   A post shared by Megan Barnard (@megan__barnard)“I have been overwhelmed by the amount of support I have received over the past few days in response to the comments about me in the media,” Barnard, who is currently in New Zealand anchoring coverage of the ICC Women’s World Cup, wrote on Instagram.

Ian Carlos Gonçalves de Matos, Brazil’s out diving star who competed in the 2016  Olympics, died Tuesday in Rio De Janeiro, following complications  from a throat infection. Matos was 32 years old. Matos had been in the hospital for two months for a throat infection, which ultimately spread to his stomach and lungs. “We are profoundly saddened to have received the news of the  premature death of the Olympic diver Ian Matos, aged just 32,”  Brazil’s Olympic Committee said in a statement. “Team Brazil acknowledges his contribution to the evolution of the  discipline.

Former out gay Socceroo player, Stephen Laybutt, 44, texted Ian Pavey, 67, a was a patient at St Vincent’s Hospital where he was working in its rehabilitation unit. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the message said, “Hey mate it’s Steve from St Vincent’s. I want to investigate if I could give you a kidney.

“I think for me, and I think this is a big part of why I’m still at Minus18, I really admire and look up to the next generation of LGBTQIA+ leaders and people,” they said.These role models include non-binary trans writer Nevo Zisin, speaker and educator and queer First Nations activist and artist Aretha Brown, and co-creator of Hue: Colour the Conversation Elsa Tuet-Rosenberg.Currently, the Religious Discrimination Bill is a focus of Adrian and Minus18.We are “engaged with advocacy groups, such as Equality Australia, as this [Bill] could create a greater divide in the equality of LGBTQIA+ Australians.”“Back then, Prime Minister Morrison backtracked on expelling gay students, but these were empty promises, with a bill in the works that could

Actor Colton Haynes, in a provocative and disturbing self-penned  essay for New York magazine, is exposing Hollywood’s dark and  seamy side, and the emotional abuse he suffered in his quest for  stardom.  “Before I came to Hollywood, I was confidently queer,” writes Haynes,  in Losing a Teenage Dream.

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Following a string of high-profile relationships, actress Kristen  Stewart has gone public with her engagement to girlfriend,  screenwriter and actress Dylan Meyer.Stewart, 31, who is generating significant Oscar buzz for her role as Princess Diana in the upcoming biopic Spencer, revealed her  engagement during an interview on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show.  “We’re marrying, we’re totally gonna do it,” Stewart told Stern.

Kal Penn, star of the Harold and Kumar film franchise,  Designated Survivor, House, and How I Met Your Mother has come out as gay in his new memoir You Can’t be Serious.  In a interview with People magazine, Penn, 44, discussed his  decision to come out, his partner Josh, and why he hadn’t made his sexuality publicly known before now.  “There’s no timeline on this stuff,” said Penn, who currently stars  on the CBS crime drama Clarice.

pic.twitter.com/NKSEP2kVWV— Adelaide United (@AdelaideUnited) October 27, 2021In a separate post on Twitter, Cavallo said he was “ready to speak about something personal that I’m finally comfortable to talk about in my life.”“I am proud to publicly announce that I am gay,” he wrote. It’s been a journey to get to this point in my life, but I couldn’t be happier with my decision to come out.

On the Fringe of Wild (★☆☆☆☆) appears headed for prime coming-out territory as it introduces in swift succession three Canadian high school boys, each wrestling in various ways with adolescent sexual confusion. Lonesome artist Peter (Harrison Browne), closeted bully Miles (Mikael Melo), and shy, gentle Jack (Cameron Stewart) all reside in a remote Ontario town, representing that a healthy percentage of the young dudes in this tiny burg might be gay.

Amanda Bearse, perhaps most recognized for her role as Marcy D’Arcy on “Married With Children,” is joining Billy Eichner and the rest of the LGBTQ principal cast in Universal Picture’s history-making film ‘Bros,’ the first studio production to be feature an all LGBTQ+ principal cast. Photo: Richard Dickey.

The Voice Australia, Aria award winning Jessica Mauboy spoke openly about her gay sister, and the time she came out to their father in a particularly heartwarming moment during a coaching session with queer contestant Seann Miley Moore.As the talent on this year’s season of The Voice Australia, continues to astound, Moore’s blind audition and rendition of Andrea Bocelli’s The Prayer stunned both judges and audiences alike.While the pair were discussing Moore’s relationship with his farther, Mauboy opened up about the time her sister came out to their father.“I have a gay sister.

New Zealand’s longest-serving Member of Parliament Nick Smith,  has apologised for voting against same-sex marriages in his valedictory address to the house after submitting his resignation. Much of the details about his resignation remain undisclosed.

infamous internationally for its homophobia and violence directed against members of the LGBTQ community.Leite, 36, from the center-right Brazilian Social Democratic Party, made the announcement during an interview with Brazil’s top broadcaster, TV Globo, last Thursday. “I’m gay — and I’m a governor who is gay rather than a gay governor,” Leite said in the interview. “Just as Obama in the United States wasn’t a Black president, but a president who was Black.

Parabenizo o gov. @EduardoLeite_ pela bravura! Sei a dor que é a prisão do armário, sobretudo num ambiente conservador como a Política, e cada um deve descobrir seu momento certo para esse gesto.

NBC Sports. Former University of Missouri defensive end Michael Sam came out as gay before the 2014 NFL draft, was drafted by the then-St.

RuPaul’s Drag Race season 6 star Leganja Estranja has come out as transgender, saying she has “never felt more beautiful and comfortable in my own skin.”In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Estranja, 32, shared her journey towards coming out as transgender.“There are so many other women around me who’ve inspired me to come forward today, and it’s because of their fight and their struggle that I’m able to really do this and say that I’m nervous, but I’m not scared,” she said. “I’m not going to live my life in fear anymore.”Estranja said that after 10 years of “presenting as female” and finding her identity, she is now able to be her true self.“I do want to be able to express this at all times.