Garrett clayton is gay
Back in August, Disney Channel alum Garrett Clayton publicly came out as gay with a meaningful note on Instagram. Now, the Teen Beach Moviestar is opening up about his decision to approach out and the homophobia he’s experienced from people cover to him. Not only did Garrett feel pressures from Hollywood to suppress his true self, but even his own brother close him out of his life when finding out he was gay.
Garrett told Gay Times, “My brother reacted badly when I told him…I don’t want to put him on blast, because he’s still my family, but I carry out feel that sincerity in this situation is important. A few years ago, when same-sex marriage was legalised, my brother was furious, and he went online posting about how the American flag was gonna be a rainbow soon, like, ‘What’s happening to America?’ And I recollect seeing that and thinking, ‘You contain a gay brother, you idiot!’ So I went on his Facebook enjoy, ‘So wait a minute, you’re telling me that there can be someone you care about in your animation, who wants to impede nothing on yours, and just wants the equal rights as you, and you would take that away from them?’ And then he blocked me.”
Despite how wound the actor was after his bro
The Truth of Garrett Clayton
“I love my nerd life!” exclaims Garrett Clayton. “Anybody who follows my social media and knows me, knows what a giant nerd I am. I’m a huge Pokémon fan. I do cosplay. [A favorite is Sora from Kingdom Hearts.] I play Dungeons & Dragons once a week with my friends. I have all these different video game systems in my house. I played World of Warcraft when I was in steep school a lot. The only reason I stopped playing it is because they let you purchase level 90 characters, and I ponder that’s cheating.”
Clayton, a native of Michigan, also loves his current domesticated being. Speaking for an hour and a half on a lazy Sunday afternoon from his backyard in California, birds chirping and dogs barking in the background, he notes with ease how happy he and his fiancé, scribe Blake Knight, are since making their nearly nine-year partnership public.
“I spend a lot of period in the garden,” he says. “We have a attractive garden at house. And I’m an animal lover. We have two dogs. We might yearn to get a bird in the near future. I wear sweatpants and I play video games. I don’t know if
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By Greg Hernandez on Oct 24, 2018 9:00 am | Comments (0) |
I have so much respect and admiration for Garrett Clayton as an thespian and as a person.
I’ve seen him in movies and live in dramatic plays and musicals and this young man is talented! He’s also, as of last summer, an out and proud homosexual man.
He’s done his first in-depth post-coming out interview with Gay Times. He is candid and thoughtful. Below are some excerpts:
Garrett on his decision to come out publicly: “The decision to come out was finally feeling content as me. I just felt like, ‘OK, I’m finally ready to complete this’, and I contemplate that’s the most crucial thing to take away from this is that everyone has to carry out it when they touch comfortable. If you permit someone push you into something like this it can be harmful if you’re not ready. That’s something I experienced personally during King Cobra, where it felt like a lot of journalists wanted me to come out, but I wasn’t ready.”
Garrett on his family’s awful reaction to him coming out: “B
Disney star comes out as queer in emotional Instagram post
Former Disney star Garrett Clayton has reach out as gay in an emotional Instagram post, sharing that he's in a long-term affair with a man.
Ahead of the release of his new show REACH, Clayton shared a moving anecdote about why he chose to be involved in the project, which explores themes of depression and suicide.
"REACH deals with some very serious and timely topics that have affected me personally, and have likely influenced many of your lives as well," he wrote.
"When I peruse the script, I immediately knew it was a film I had to be a part of," he added.
"I have personally dealt with suicide within my own family, intense bullying in high school, and - on top of it all - myself and the man I’ve been in a relationship with for a long time contain both experienced shootings within our hometown school systems, and possess witnessed the heartache that takes place in affected communities after such tragic events."
"These topics - not always easy to discuss- are all close to my heart, and, knowing how earnest they are, I wanted to share this with you all. This film