Charlie Carver, a 27-year old actor best known for roles on Teen Wolf and The Leftovers, has confirmed that he is gay. The star made this reveal in a lengthy Instagram post “As a young boy, I knew I wanted to be an actor. I knew I wanted to be a lot of things! I thought I wanted to be a painter, a soccer player, a stegosaurus… But the acting thing stuck,” Carver wrote. He then got to the heart of the topic: “It was around that age that I also knew, however abstractly, that I was different from some of the other boys in my grade. “Over time, this abstract ‘knowing’ grew and articulated itself through a painful gestation marked by feelings of despair and alienation, ending in a climax of saying three words out loud: ‘I am gay.’ “I said them to myself at first, to see how they felt. They rang true, and I hated myself for them. I was twelve. “It would take me a few years before I could repeat them to anyone else, in the meantime turning the phrase over and over in my mouth until I felt comfortable and sure enough to let the words pour out again, this time to my family.” View Slideshow: 36 Celebrities Who Are Out and Proud! Along with his message, Carver shared a photo on social media of the following quote: Be who you needed when you were younger. Carver’s post is long, heartfelt and personal… and it concludes as follows: “So now, let the record show this – I self-identify as gay. And does that really matter anymore? “As a young man, I needed a young man in Hollywood to say that – and without being a dick about it, I owe it to myself, more than anything, to be who I needed when I was younger.” We admire Carver’s courage in coming out and we wish him the best.
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Charlie Carver, Popular Teen Wolf Star, Comes Out as Gay
