
Christian Chavez: Coming Out Has Been Great
MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- Mexican boy band
member Christian Chavez said in a TV interview Wednesday that
coming out of the closet has allowed him to live the life he always
wanted.
Chavez, a member of the wildly popular Mexican band RBD, came out three
months ago after photographs of him and his boyfriend kissing and
exchanging rings started surfacing on the Internet.
Revealing
his sexuality publicly allowed him to "begin a healing process in which
I left things behind and began many wonderful things," Chavez told the
Televisa network.
Chavez said that he was really nervous before the first appearance after
his announcement but that fans supported him all the way, "I was afraid
to go on stage, but people were really, really nice. I felt free and
could sing like I've never sung before."
He now wants to fight for gays to be respected — not just tolerated - in
his homeland of Mexico.
In April, actor Neil Patrick Harris told on
Ellen that coming out had been great for him, too. "For me that is
the greatest ending to the story so far – that nothing really has
changed at all," he told Ellen. "I'm doing nothing different and people
aren't behaving differently towards me. ... People heard and they're
like yeah, and? That attitude, I think, was great," Harris said. |