Because of how Colton Haynes looks, you know, that chiseled face, his square jaw.

Because of that, Hollywood decided very quickly that he was a leading man.

He was a jock, he was an asshole, those are the roles they wanted him to play, and as he

was told, all of that meant that he could not be gay. So back into the

closet he went. This is something that I didn't know about Colton before reading his book. I didn't

know that growing up, he was an out, proud, loudly gay teenager, and all that had to change

when he started acting. He's best known today for having been on hit shows like Teen Wolf and Arrow.

Now, when Colton moved to LA, this was 2007,

and things were very different for queer people.

In Hollywood, and just the world in general.

A lot has changed since then, but as Colton points out, necessarily, in many ways,

we still are very much stuck. Colton joins us today to talk about that. We also talk about

how discovering that he was attractive when his 13 colored the rest of his life, and we talk

about his new memoir that's called Miss Memory Lane, and it's out now.

From The Advocate Magazine in Partnership with Glad, I'm Jeffrey Masters, and this is LGBTQ and A.

One of the most interesting parts of the book in your story is that to me, so many people

have an internalized shame and stigma around being gay.

And growing up, you did not.

You were out in high school.

You took your boyfriend to prom.

You were a go-go

dancer at a gay bar. And it was only the industry that then forced you back in the closet,

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