The juxtaposition of his generic MTV teen dream image and the newly surfaced imagery of queer love was especially striking back in the 2010s, before a generation of young out stars defined a new Hollywood era.Īs Haynes became more and more famous - he later played a superhero sidekick on the CW’s Arrow - he was out to neither the public nor the industry. On the magazine's cover, Haynes, then 17, gazes at the camera while embracing his real-life boyfriend.
But soon after his acting debut, queer publications unearthed surprising pictures of the onetime Abercrombie and Fitch model posing for the queer youth magazine XY. His character had a girlfriend, and he was assumed to be hetero offscreen. Colton Haynes first came to fame as an all-American dreamboat on Teen Wolf, MTV’s breakout scripted hit from 2011.
