MTV’s 2010 Teen Wolf reboot series was host to a whole gaggle of LGBTQ+ characters and actors, helmed by openly gay showrunner Jeff Davis. Players like Charlie Carver, Colton Haynes, and Gage Golightly helped make the series something of a cult queer fave (even if they were overshadowed to some fans by the nonexistent romance between hetero characters Stiles Stilinski and Derek Hale).
Over the past couple of years, the show’s main star, Tyler Posey, has come out as sexually fluid in a series of public revelations. Now, the leader of the wolf pack is sharing what helped him reach his closet door bustdown moment.
In a recent interview with Gay Times, Posey chatted about his role in the upcoming Teen Wolf movie that premieres on Paramount+ on January 26th. He took the opportunity to express his gratitude to the show’s culture for helping him mitigate his feelings about his own sexuality.
“[Teen Wolf] definitely helped not let the subject die in my head. It was constantly there and it was constantly being accepted,” he says.
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“For me, it was easier to not be ashamed about what I was going through. I was just instilled with this idea of acceptance for who I am.”
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Posey also praises his feeling that the show “didn’t shove the subject down everyone’s throat; it was just natural and normal.”
“It was like what everyday life is like. You’re gay, you’re straight, whatever. These topics weren’t like, ‘Here’s gay! Here’s straight!’ It was all super normal. I think that’s what people really appreciated because we’re all normal.”
His comments could use a little nuance and finesse, but his heart’s in the right place.
“There’s been weird stigmas put in the air for hundreds and thousands of years and we were sort of breaking that stigma of, ‘This is just how we are. This is everyday life. This is how people are and how they interact.’ We spotlighted it by taking the spotlight off, if that makes any sense. It was just normal and, for me, that’s what I loved about it.”
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There’s no word yet if Posey’s sexuality will make its way into the movie, but there’s certainly precedent for it. After Colton Haynes came out in 2016, his written-off character who’d previously been played as straight returned to the show in a relationship with Charlie Carver’s character.
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abfab
Let’s all send him a carton of our sexual fluid……I know, that was just dumb.
Fluid. Fluid. Fluid. Knock yourselves out people. Fluid. Even the word is all washed up. Fluid. I must revisit my Hydrology notes…..wishy-washy is more like it.
LumpyPillows
Lol.
lykeitiz
“His comments could use a little nuance and finesse, but his heart’s in the right place.”
Actually, I think he worded it quite well.
abfab
”It was all super normal. I think that’s what people really appreciated because we’re all normal.”
No, we’re not all normal. That’s just hysterical.
Steve
Don’t get me wrong. I really like Tyler Posey. But, how do you go through this entire interview and not mention your gay co-stars? Did they not help you in feeling your way through this? Or was it just the way the show was handled to make you feel that a television fantasy show depicting straight and gay people both as ‘normal’ which helped you?
skeldare
Some people are just so afraid of the bisexual label
Donston
A lot of people feel uncomfortable fully embracing a “bi label” if they don’t have plenty of sexual attractions, romantic attachment, relationship ambitions towards men and women. While probably half of Hollywood is in the bi/pan spectrum (and that includes many gay-presenting celebs). So, “bi” can feel nondescript. While fluidity is an actual thing. Sometimes for some people certain attractions, desires, paraphiliacs, romantic feelings can lessen or strengthen over time, which can also complicate a bi identity. As I’ve said here many times, identity is important for many folks, but it shouldn’t be as important as understanding how individual sexuality, sexual journey, insecurities, preferences, the gender, sexual, affection, romantic, emotion, commitment spectrum are.
I will say that it’s hard to take Tyler that seriously. He’ll talk about his supposed queer elements while still being super evasive and coming off really insecure. While it’s difficult to forget just how much he baited and scammed and exploited men who are unabashedly into men (and to an extent exploited trans women) on his OnlyFans. It seems queerness only comes up when he’s trying to sell or promote something. People forget that having queer dimensions doesn’t mean you don’t have plenty of privileges, doesn’t mean you can’t exploit and use certain people, doesn’t mean that you’re not manipulative. Folks like to forget that when they find someone to be “hot”.
Diplomat
Tyler is attracted to both men and women.
Therefore, for the ease of the everyday human, Tyler Posey is bisexual.
bsg1967
Load of bollocks guy still gay baiting after all these years, never been with a man or in a relationship with a man just trying to get clicks and views for a show that was only good for one season.
Donston
I don’t like determining someone else’s dimensions. He probably does have some queer dimensions (like half of the entertainment industry). And he’s non-directly talked about hooking up with dudes and trans women. At the end of the day, we don’t know anyone’s exact sexual dimensions or preferences or where they are in the gender, sexual, affection, romantic, emotion, commitment spectrum. The problem is that he only brings up queerness when he’s selling something. While the dude was charging people over $30 a month for old shirtless pics before this reboot was greenlit. He clearly has no issue with exploiting queers and his supposed queerness, and with manipulating and scamming people.
bachy
“Smarmy” is not a sexual identity.
dbmcvey
Well, this triggered a lot of people.
SDR94103
another cop out.
SFMike
Teen Wolf was his master class in gay baiting and he continues to refine that talent to the present day although the bloom is certainly off this sad graffiti covered B lister.
Huron132
I love Tyler a lot. He is a really good looking man. But he needs to stop and find a “Fluid PR person”. He tries really hard to explain his feelings. But he just misses the finesse of his words. Tyler I hope you reach out to someone to help with your words! Other than that I love to see him anytime I can! ?