Lance Bass on his coming out: “I was uneducated with what the issues were and what was going on at the time”

Lance Bass irritated more than a few people back in 2006 when in his People magazine coming out story he described he and his friends as “straight acting gays.”

Lance now says he would have done things differently. He tells Wonderwall:

“If there was one thing that I could take back, it was how rushed it came out, but that wasn’t up to me. I had 24 hours to do it. I would love to have had a chance to sit down and figure out a way it could really hit in a positive way to change people’s minds [about LGBT people].

“At the time, I wasn’t involved in the LGBT community and I was uneducated with what the issues were and what was going on at the time. When the story was at its height, I could’ve had some really great ammunition to support the LGBT community.”