Join Wayne Brady as he opens up about coming out as pansexual, the importance of living authentically, and the heartwarming dynamics of his unique family in his new show, The Family Remix.
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00:00I don't think that coming out is a necessity, but I would also say that to a degree, some
00:07of the people that say they don't need to come out, they also have the luxury of being
00:13represented.
00:15So I don't think that anyone has to come out.
00:18For me personally, I needed to, A, for my own mental health, because if you live with
00:26a secret, whether you're gay or lesbian or pansexual or bisexual, if you identify as
00:35something but you can't show it in public, then the lengths you go to to try to be happy
00:42with no one knowing, it's not worth it.
00:46The mental drain and the unhappiness that you go through, it's not worth it.
00:51So I didn't come out for anybody.
00:54I came out for me because I knew that it would allow me to operate in a different way,
00:59which would allow me to be mentally healthy.
01:03And I also realized that by me coming out, the byproduct of that is representation, especially
01:09when it comes to pansexual awareness and erasure, just like bisexual erasure and the conversations
01:17around that.
01:19So the byproduct is being able to represent a community that doesn't always have a voice.
01:27I mean, he's the same.
01:29It's the same person.
01:31He is exactly the same.
01:33If anything, whether correlation equals causation, he's really in his fashion era right now.
01:43That's a bigger difference.
01:45But otherwise, he's the same person.
01:48No one found out.
01:49But we we knew we were part of that process as well.
01:52So it wasn't like he's stepping into this new personhood and all of these things.
01:56It's more that everyone else is getting to see him.
02:00But he's been the same old person to us, I think.
02:04Wayne is a superhero.
02:06I feel like he's just untouchable.
02:07He's the most talented person I've ever witnessed in my entire life, you know, and people forget
02:15that he's a he's a man, that he's human.
02:18He's just expected to do everything at an expert level, right out the gate.
02:24And so I'm really excited for people to meet Wayne and to see that he's mortal.
02:30You know, he's mortal.
02:32I think family is today.
02:35I think it's one of the most radical ideas you can construct and live into.
02:41It means a safe space where you're supported and you can sort of really unfold.
02:48You can bloom your life in whatever that looks like for you, like with support, like we can't
02:54do anything by ourselves, you know, as much as I want to do everything on my own, like
03:00I can't.
03:01And that's I think that's a fact of life.
03:03And so family means the, you know, sort of the ground to to really bloom into whoever
03:10you are, however that looks and pursue, you know, your hopes, your dreams, your desires
03:15from that space.