Colton Comes Clean

There are some stories that do not arouse my sympathies.  These typically involve people who I perceive as having a myriad of benefits but want us to feel sorry for them.  It’s clearly a failing of mine, and I’m telling you this upfront before launching into the tale of woe that is Colton Haynes.  Last week, the hot young actor/model officially came out.  Colton grew up in Kansas, first gained notoriety as a model, and then as an actor on two successful TV shows – Teen Wolf and Arrow.  All the while, he amassed a throng of followers on social media, attracted no doubt by his frequent selfies in various forms of undress.  Speculation about his sexual orientation was rampant, but he never confirmed it – he also didn’t deny it.  But there were two clearly divergent images of Haynes – the person who had lawyers threaten websites for posting photos from his explicit, homoerotic XY spread, and the person who posted about his openly gay brother who has a child with his hubby.

Last January, gay stories about Colton picked up steam after one of his fans posted the following on his Tumblr page: “When I found out Colton Haynes had a secret gay past, I got so excited even though I know it makes absolutely no difference in my life.”  Haynes responded, “Was it a secret?”  After that, he didn’t say much.  But Colton now admits that he voluntarily committed himself to a hospital.  “I’ve had terminal anxiety my entire life.  Physically ill, fainting.  I’m 27 years old and I have an ulcer.  I had to step back.”  We are not talking about someone new to Hollywood – he’s lived in LA since 2006!  Now, a decade later, he’s given an interview to EW – a curious choice for a coming-out story.  In it, talks about how he’s been plagued with anxiety about people finding out his “secret”, and how the pressure was so great that he asked to be written off of Arrow (the show’s creator, openly gay Greg Berlanti, is one of his mentors).  My hunch is most people will laud Colton as some sort of gay hero – primarily because he’s hot and they want to sleep with him.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

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