{"id":60058,"date":"2021-06-21T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=60058"},"modified":"2021-06-21T00:00:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T07:00:20","slug":"colton-comes-clean-kinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/06\/21\/colton-comes-clean-kinda\/","title":{"rendered":"Colton Comes Clean&#8230;Kinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <strong><em>Ask Billy<\/em><\/strong> question is more of a comment.&nbsp; <strong>Oscar <\/strong>in San Diego writes, <em>\u201c<strong>Colton Haynes <\/strong>just posted that <\/em>XY Magazine<em> cover that he did in 2006.&nbsp; I guess he\u2019s not embarrassed by it anymore.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTimes have changed, and we\u2019ve often rewound the clock, since the Puritans got a shock, when they landed on Plymouth Rock.\u201d&nbsp; So, what can I say?&nbsp; He\u2019s older, wiser, and over it.&nbsp; What was troublesome when he was a tyke trying to make it is now pass\u00e9.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019ve never posted this picture before.&nbsp; In fact, I spent a big part of my career trying to erase it from the internet while I was still in the closet.&nbsp; Partly because so many ppl in Hollywood told me I would never work as an openly gay actor, but part of it was because I was incredibly ashamed.&nbsp; It made me sad to see these pictures I had taken as a 15 year old model,\u201d he began.&nbsp; He went on and on, but ended with, \u201cBeing gay is worth celebrating.&nbsp; I wish I\u2019d figured that out sooner, but I\u2019m so glad I know it now.&nbsp; To everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community, I hope you celebrate yourselves this month &amp; always, exactly as you are.\u201d&nbsp; Except, of course, Colton is not quite ready to celebrate himself exactly as he was \u2013 he edited the post and changed \u201c15 year old model\u201d to \u201cteenage model\u201d.&nbsp; The more things change\u2026the more you can see on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>When Colton Haynes is touchy about his age, it\u2019s definitely time to end another column.&nbsp; You can touch yourself while checking out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">www.BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 the site that is brought to you by the letters X and Y.&nbsp; If you have a question, send it along to <strong><a href=\"mailto:Billy@BillyMasters.com\">Billy@BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>, and I promise to get back to you before a special episode of <em>Sesame Street<\/em> when <strong>Ernie <\/strong>and <strong>Bert <\/strong>go to a sperm bank!&nbsp; Until next time, remember, one man\u2019s filth is another man\u2019s bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Ask Billy question is more of a comment.&nbsp; Oscar in San Diego writes, \u201cColton Haynes just posted that XY Magazine cover that he did in 2006.&nbsp; I guess he\u2019s not embarrassed by it anymore.\u201d \u201cTimes have changed, and we\u2019ve often rewound the clock, since the Puritans got a shock, when they landed on Plymouth<\/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-60058","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\/60058","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=60058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60059,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60058\/revisions\/60059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}