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Chris Appleton Has Opened Up About Coming Out As Same-sex attracted At 26 — After Welcoming Two Children With A Long-Term Girlfriend
“I was bullied quite a bit at institution, and people used to say I was gay because I did hair,” Chris went on. “I never was too focused on sexuality, but people at school always mentioned it, and, as a kid, you just don’t ever want to be different — I already felt different because I was dyslexic.”
“I was, I guess, just determined to verify everyone wrong, but so much that I did myself a disjustice [sic],” he admitted. “It wasn’t until I experienced it at 26 that I was also going through it as well as everyone else. The complicated thing is, then you’re hurting people around you that you’ve committed to, and you perceive that.”
“People feel appreciate they know you, and you notice like you realize them, and all of a sudden you’re telling a different story which you’re trying to figure out,” Chris added. “So it was really challenging for a scant years, it was really difficult.”
Bethenny then praised Chris for realizing that “something massive was missing” from his being and deciding to make the “courageous jump” by coming out.
“It sounds cheesy, but there’s honestly so much influence in living
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Chris Appleton has opened up about coming out as gay later in life — and how he had to battle with letting go of the “guilt” and “shame” surrounding his sexuality.
The 41-year-old celebrity hairstylist, who works with the likes of Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez, admitted that he thought he had it “all figured out” when he and his long-term partner welcomed two children in his 20s.
Speaking on Bethenny Frankel’s podcast, Just B, Chris explained that while he and the mother of his children never married, they were together for nine years before he realized that he is gay
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“I think coming out later on in life — I was 26 — was incredibly difficult because I had two kids, I had a partner I’d been with for nine years, I thought I had it all figured out. Everybody else also thought I had it figured out,” he began. “So when you’re all of a sudden then altering the record, people are like: ‘Well, you must have always known,’ and I didn’t understand I did.”
“I was bullied quite a bit at school, and people used to say I was gay because I did hair,” Chris went on. “I never was too focused on sexuality, but people a
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James Christopher Homosexual, 39, October 15
Chris Same-sex attracted and I were on Yosemite Search and Rescue (YOSAR) in Yosemite Valley together from 2019 through 2023. We spent half of our time on call, carrying pagers in exchange for a alabaster canvas tent in Camp 4 and had everything we needed to inhabit a simple life in the dirt. We lived without running water, without electricity, without being tied to a nine-to-five profession, and we loved it. Every year, like the waterfalls that ebb and flow, returning in packed force with the melting snow, we eagerly returned to the Valley—often arriving as early as Protest and staying as after time as December. We common a deep love for Yosemite and wanted to spend as much day as we could there while we had the privilege of living in paradise.
To many members of the local community, the traveling dirtbags and the weekend warriors, Chris was a fixture of Yosemite’s warmer seasons. His easily recognized white and yellow van was a comforting sight, providing reassur
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Passed away on May 12, 2025
Chris Lane Gay, 63, of Pooler, GA, died Monday, May 12, 2025, at St. Joseph’s hospital.
He was born in Savannah, GA to the late Joe W, Sr., and Nita Morris Male lover. He was raised in Pooler, a member of the Savannah Christian Preparatory School Class of 1979, and pursued a career in the retail grocery business. Chris was a member of Rothwell Baptist Church and attended Garden City First Baptist Church.
Chris’s heart and compassion for others was as massive as the “big boy” chairs he declared he must sit in. Once he realized there was a physical, financial, or spiritual need he was your biggest supporter and cheerleader. He was the family ‘baby whisperer.” Modern babies loved to be held and comforted by Chris’s special touch. He was a immense presence at any gathering and was a gifted storyteller and comedian. Everyone who knew Chris had a story with him. Finally, Chris was the biggest UGA football fan, watching a game with Chris was to encounter football at its finest.
Chris began his career in the grocery industry at the Garden Municipality Piggly Wiggly, he