{"id":1886,"date":"2016-05-09T02:35:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T09:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2016-05-09T02:36:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T09:36:23","slug":"colton-comes-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/05\/09\/colton-comes-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Colton Comes Clean"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are some stories that do not arouse my sympathies.\u00a0 These typically involve people who I perceive as having a myriad of benefits but want us to feel sorry for them.\u00a0 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<\/strong>.\u00a0 Last week, the hot young actor\/model officially came out.\u00a0 Colton grew up in Kansas, first gained notoriety as a model, and then as an actor on two successful TV shows – Teen Wolf<\/em><\/strong> and Arrow<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 All the while, he amassed a throng of followers on social media, attracted no doubt by his frequent selfies in various forms of undress.\u00a0 Speculation about his sexual orientation was rampant, but he never confirmed it – he also didn’t deny it.\u00a0 But there were two clearly divergent images of Haynes – the person who had lawyers threaten websites for posting photos from his explicit, homoerotic XY<\/em> spread, and the person who posted about his openly gay brother who has a child with his hubby.<\/p>\n

Last January, gay stories about Colton picked up steam after one of his fans posted the following on his Tumblr <\/em>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.”\u00a0 Haynes responded, “Was it a secret?”\u00a0 After that, he didn’t say much.\u00a0 But Colton now admits that he voluntarily committed himself to a hospital.\u00a0 “I’ve had terminal anxiety my entire life.\u00a0 Physically ill, fainting.\u00a0 I’m 27 years old and I have an ulcer.\u00a0 I had to step back.”\u00a0 We are not talking about someone new to Hollywood – he’s lived in LA since 2006!\u00a0 Now, a decade later, he’s given an interview to EW<\/em> – a curious choice for a coming-out story.\u00a0 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<\/em> (the show’s creator, openly gay Greg Berlanti<\/strong>, is one of his mentors).\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Not that there’s anything wrong with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are some stories that do not arouse my sympathies.\u00a0 These typically involve people who I perceive as having a myriad of benefits but want us to feel sorry for them.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}