Is tim gunn gay

Find Tim Gunn's past married life with his gay husband/spouse and relationship with current partner/boyfriend.

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Learn his bio on age and facts on family. Gunn, who had identified as gay, [3] was raised in an intensely homophobic household where homosexuals were viewed as predators. [3] According to a video Gunn created for the It Gets Better Project, he attempted suicide at the age of 17 by swallowing over pills. [4][5] He denied his sexual orientation until his early 20s, and did not share.

Tim Gunn hasn't been in a relationship since the early '80 when his last relationship ended badly after his partner cheated on him. Gunn claims he was always sort of asexual and he leads happy and fulfilled life without a romantic partner. Tim Gunn, the Parsons professor who shot into celebrity as an onscreen contestant mentor on “Project Runway,” is commonly thought to be a gay public figure.

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Gunn had a troubled teenage life as he battled with his sexuality and got picked on quite a lot at school. Those sad circumstances contributed to him regularly changing schools. A rough split from his partner and the advent of the AIDS pandemic made him sexually inactive for a long time. Already contributed? Log in to hide these messages. As snobby as the fashion world may seem, as an industry, it's widely embraced the LGBT community.

Or as Tim Gunn puts it, "Men in the fashion industry, I assume that they're gay until proven otherwise. This is perhaps why, after his troubled youth, Gunn has seemed to find solace in the style world, acting as America's resident fashion mentor first through his role at Parsons The New School for Design and then via "Project Runway" and "Project Runway: Under The Gunn," his new design competition series.

He tells me that it was a long path to the enormous success he's achieved -- a path made only more complicated by him coming to terms with being gay. And I knew I wasn't a heterosexual male. The whole idea of being gay absolutely terrified me. Gunn cites Uncle Arthur on "Bewitched" and the decorators in Doris Day films as the only gay role models around when he was growing up in the '50s and '60s.

After years of struggling, becoming a role model himself in both the fashion and LGBT worlds is an achievement Gunn is unabashedly grateful for. Through reality television, he's opened up America to two communities that, unfortunately, aren't necessarily accessible to everyone, since he's both well-respected and adored. Though he never did come out to his family. How Gunn's managed to eschew the oft-catty, alienating reputation of his fellow style critics is a testament to his thoughtfulness and sincerity -- he truly is just being himself, and America can see that.

While his advice on both "Runway" and "Under The Gunn" is certainly kind, he takes a no-nonsense approach. He's also well-aware of the realities and limitations of the industry he thrives in. Although Gunn thinks that fashion has been largely supportive of the LGBT community, he knows there's a long way to go until full acceptance trickles down into the mass market.

Most recently, Barneys New York made headlines for enlisting a cast of transgender models for its latest campaign. But Gunn isn't quite sure that the department store is going to make a huge impact, given that it caters to an elite clientele. On the issue of transgender models, however, Gunn is at odds with himself, especially when it comes to androgynous models, like Andrej Pejic , modeling women's clothing.

With all of the flak the fashion world receives for perpetuating body image issues for women, some might think that models like Pejic make the waif standard all the more unattainable by telling women they're not supposed to have hips in the first place. I think it's horrible. But the use of trans models isn't a black and white issue, even to Gunn.

But I feel it's a dicey issue. The fact of the matter is, when you are transgender -- if you go, say, male to female -- you're not having your pelvis broken and having it expanded surgically. You still have the anatomical bone structure of a man. Andrej Pejic walks the runway during Barcelona Bridal Week Gunn seems almost apologetic about his stance on trans models.

Considering his own struggles with identity and sexuality, it's not hard to see how he'd be divided between supporting an LGBT cause and doing what he thinks is best for the fashion industry, a world that's always supported him. I can do it with so much more confidence when I can just be an open book. Considering his season tenure on "Runway" and the positive response he's received since opening up about his struggles, it seems America is just fine with Gunn's approach to honesty.

We may not have known him when he was a troubled, bullied teen, but we can certainly learn from his path to self-acceptance and success. For two decades, HuffPost has been fearless, unflinching, and relentless in pursuit of the truth.