Lance Bass said growing up in the boy band NSYNC meant he was called "gay" all the time: "Being in a boy band, I got called gay every single day that I was in the band. And it wasn't because they actually thought I was gay. It's just because I was in a boy band. All of us got that. I definitely wasn't singled out. I think all of us got it equally."

He also reveals that his mom went on the road with him on his first tour, and that it was strongly advised not to talk about his personal life: "Being in the entertainment industry, you get told certain things and they allude to certain things. No one ever flatout said, 'Listen, if you're gay, you can't do this," Bass says. "But they would [say] things like, 'You know, if you have a girlfriend, you can't really talk about them' and 'Remember your audience, your fans out there. They don't want to really know about your personal life.' So that always to me was kind of a backhanded, like, 'Look, we know you're gay, keep it a secret, kid.'"

The episode of "Are the Kids Alright" originally aired on Nov. 11, 2021: https://yhoo.it/3Qgt7wa


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