Colton Haynes confirms that he is gay in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly

Colton Haynes, confirmed that he is gay in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly.

He revealed that he spent months being treated for anxiety spurred by the discomfort he felt earlier this year when someone on Tumblr referred to Haynes' "secret gay past" in a post to which he replied "Was it a secret? Let's all just enjoy life & have no regrets :)" and the response from anyone worth listening to on the Internet was overwhelmingly warm and positive.

He told, he's happier and healthier than he's ever been-but it took some time to get there, and the actor couldn't be less alone in that respect.

 TV stars like Ellen DeGeneres, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen and Robin Roberts, long-coupled fathers like Neil Patrick Harris and Matt Bomer, Ellen Page and Wentworth Miller, who realized more recently that life would feel so much better once they just put it out there

"I'm happy to be gay, I'm so comfortable being gay, I love being gay-and honestly it wasn't until making that choice in doing that, where I realized like, no, I was carrying a tremendous amount of shame and guilt for not being out and I felt isolated from the LGBT community, and now I don't," Ellen Page told Ellen DeGeneres on Ellen in April 2014, a couple of months after coming out on Valentine's Day during a speech she was giving at Time to THRIVE, a conference to promote the welfare of LGBT youth.

Page added, "It's so nice to just you know be at work and talk about an ex or, you know, get to wear what you want and not have a conversation about it, and to feel like you're being yourself and then connect with people in the world."

 People are still looking for-and society as a whole will be better off so long as anyone who wants to is free to find it.