Terrence Stone is a a Billboard- and iTunes-charting recording artist from Philadelphia. In a new interview with Philadelphia Magazine the 27-year-old says “it’s time” to open up about his sexuality.
“I’m a bisexual male,” he says, proudly.
Stone, who has appeared on American Idol, BET’s Sunday Best, Showtime at the Apollo, The Word Network, and many more TV shows, credits his ex-boyfriend, James, for helping him find the courage to live his truth:
He taught me a lot about myself. I always felt like I didn’t deserve him. Because I had such a dark past I wasn’t willing to grow with him over time to reveal all of who I was because I was afraid he wouldn’t love me anymore. Being together off and on for four years really showed me what true love is when it comes to a relationship. It’s not about the title, but it’s about being there for each other mutually no matter what.
He and James broke up last year, but they remain close friends.
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For many years, Stone was an accomplished gospel singer, performing under the stage name Aaron Thomas, though he says he often struggled with the church’s teachings, especially around things like same-sex love.
“One thing I could never agree with was the religious aspect,” he recalls. “As a gospel artist, it was always challenging for me to be me.”
“I lived my life according to others’ opinions of what I should do and who I should be.”
Ultimately, this led him to search for a new genre. He’s now working on relaunching his career as an R&B singer.
“The gospel industry always made me feel like I wasn’t good enough,” he says. “The R&B platform gives me the opportunity to encourage, inspire and uplift people in an authentic way.”
He continues, “The key to freedom is to constantly create yourself. When you stop trying to find yourself and you began to create yourself, you become limitless.”
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Kangol
I knew the first time I saw him singing that he was probably gay or bi. Very glad to see that he’s come out, and I wish him the best.
Jaxton
Good on Terence. He’s a good man who is being true to himself. He is entitled to have sexual feelings for men and women. Ultimately he will find that one special person. Whether it’s a man or woman is up to him.
Monogamy means you are faithful to one person. A person can only be male or female, not both.
Knight
I honestly can’t understand how these types of “gospel” singers find it so difficult to come out. There are SO MANY protestant churches that teach homosexuality is just A-OK (the episcopalians are probably the biggest example). In other words, if one church doesn’t teach what you want, move on to one that does. Easy as that.
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Rex Huskey
I’m guessing they realized one cannot sing the gay away either…..
draven
Bi=lies
StupidBoy
I hope he can begin to make a difference in the black churches. I have had too many black friends die because they were too embarrassed to get tested or come out. Some got disowned by their parents because they were gay. The churches have no problem with effeminate men or DL men, as long as it’s not out in the open, but shun and turn away from their own children and brothers and uncles and fathers when it is. “Gospel” and “bisexual” go together like oil and water, but I hope it opens up some people’s thinking and may keep some young boys or girls from committing suicide because his or her family and church won’t accept them. Many of my friends told me about the “deacons” in the church preyed on them as children, on the DL, of course. The black churches need their own MeToo movement to bring this into the light.
demetreus
Not all black people go to Gospel churches. Not all black people are raised in families that will disown them for coming our gay or bi. Not all black people are coward enough to live their lives on the DL.
With that being said, ALL churches need a #MeToo movement.