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.