Tim Gunn Never Came Out to His Family to 'Spare Them the Disappointment'

By Lindy West | September 21, 2013 | 12:00am

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Ouch ouch ouch, my heart. Tim Gunn talked to Larry “Still a Thing?” King about his admiration for gay youth who are open about their sexuality, and his own struggles communicating with his parents.

“It was a very different time. It was a very different era. And I had a lot of fears about being gay, about what that actually meant. And I had already presented my family with a lot of disappointments and I didn’t feel that I wanted to present them with yet this. It’s very funny, though. My mother died two years ago. And I think she eventually figured out my sexuality, but we never talked about it. And my father was gone long before. We never once talked about it.”

OOPS THERE’S SOMETHING IN MY EYE—I THINK IT’S 24 HOURS OF GUTTURAL WRACKING SOBS. [Towleroad]

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Couric added, “Again, I think that unfortunately, linking has replaced reporting and it’s just a strange way of covering the news.”

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Oh, hello. Don’t mind if I do.

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