Gay chad allen

Chad Allen of "Dr.

Since then, Allen has continued his

Quinn, Medicine Woman," is proudly gay and one of those who has been steadfast in his quest to enjoy his life without succumbing to external influences. Starting with Third Man Out (), Allen stars as Strachey, a gay private detective in a monogamous relationship, in a series of television movies for the here! network based on novels by Richard Stevenson.

Since then, Allen has continued his acting career relatively unabated, and he has also established a theater career, both as actor and producer, and another career as a show business activist. Gay actor Chad Allen makes one of his final film appearances in Hollywood, Je t’aime as a sweet pot dealer. In , at age 21, Allen was outed as gay when the US tabloid The Globe published photos of him kissing another man in a hot tub at a party.

The photos had been sold to the paper by Allen's then-boyfriend. Who I am is really good news today. In a constantly evolving Hollywood culture and society-at-large, Allen happily tackles material laden with controversy, the likes of which once stifled him creatively and personally. The Chad Allen of today who produced and starred in the recent L. Quinn at the height of its success after tabloid-ignited rumors started flying.

For a while, the gay pride festival in Los Angeles was sort of an anniversary party for a group of friends I was exceptionally close with. When I was about eighteen, we were like a little surrogate family taking care of each other in Hollywood. But today, I exist absolutely in love with who I am. I enjoy the person I am today, I enjoy the people around me, and I am absolutely proud of the man I am.

I know it sometimes takes young people a while to get to that. MW : Was your experience growing up gay pretty universal, or was it more unique as an entertainment industry celebrity? But on the inside the feelings are the same. MW : What kind of support resources could you turn to as a young gay person? I had a couple of close friends. Probably most of all, I had my work.

I would say that the theater saved my life. If I was angry, upset, sad, or scared, I would put it on stage. It gave me an outlet for what was going on. In many ways, that really helped keep me generally stable during an unstable time. But I never felt that there was really a point in my life and career where I was lying or hiding.

I lived my life exactly the way I knew I had to. I went out, I had fun, I was open. When the tabloid stuff happened, I almost felt that the greatest amount of hurt came from the idea that anybody could pose [being gay] as bad — that there could be anything wrong with me being exactly who I was. Did you have any influence over that? I was on a hit television show by the time I was twelve. My entire life — my entire being — was run by managers, publicists and agents.

When I was finishing high school and they offered me Dr. It makes me sad. Not even just sexuality. Everything they wrote was based on some other idea. But [the Dr. So during the Dr. Quinn years, there was almost none of that. I did very little publicity about me, just stuff with other actors about the show.