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Bachelor Nation Stars Who Came Out As Members of the LGBTQ+ Community
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Bachelor Nation Stars Who Came Out As Members of the Queer Community
Gabby Windey, Colton Underwoodand more Bachelor Nation alums are living their most authentic lives after appearing on the franchise.
Windey, for her part, revealed in August 2023 that she is dating a woman for the first time. The season 19 Bachelorette, who split from ex-fiancé Erich Schwer in 2022 after a televised proposal, sparked a romance with comedian Robby Hoffman.
“I didn’t really know to pay attention to it,” Windey said during an appearance on The Viewabout realizing she was attracted to women. “I think when this happens, there’s some shame obviously surrounding it, so I think I had to a little bit navigate through the shame. Like, what is it? Where is it coming from? But ultimately, I always just want to kind of do me, do what I wish, figure it out later."
She continued: “I was on dating shows dating men and a Broncos cheerleader, so it was appreciate my whole world was male-gaze. … Obviously, it’s about sexuality, but it’s also the person I met. Like, she is
Colton Underwood, the First Homosexual ‘Bachelor,’ Confronts His Controversial Coming Out
Colton Underwood didn’t plan on ever telling the world that he was gay. After all, he’d starred as “The Bachelor” in 2019 to scout for a wife on national television, searching for love among 30 aspiring brides-to-be. The television personality was convinced he’d spend his entire animation pretending to be a straight man — pushed into that direction by his church and small-town, conservative upbringing in Illinois.
But last month, Underwood made national headlines by coming out to Robin Roberts in a bombshell “Good Morning America” interview, shattering the heteronormative conventions of ABC’s top-rated reality online dating juggernaut franchise. After hiding his attraction to men since his early teens, the 29-year-old former NFL player initially disclosed his sexuality to someone else a year ago: his publicist.
The confession was prompted not by liberation but out of fear. “I’ll just say it,” Underwood reveals on a recent afternoon, still adjusting to his new life as an openly gay gentleman. “I, at one signal, during my rock
I feel I must confess: I am not a member of Bachelor Nation. I have many friends who are in this community and consider myself an ally to it. Once, I watched an episode of The Bachelorette with a bunch of queer people and was shocked by how much queer subtext it contained but then was informed it wasn’t typical for there to be two Bachelorettes at once, which was a bummer to me personally because that dynamic was so fascinating!!!!! But recently, I was introduced to Jasmine Goode, a former Bachelor and Bachelor in Paradise contestant who now appears on the Bravo series The Valley and who is bisexual. I knew about Becca Tilley already, of course. I decided to investigate just how many queer women have been a part of the often aggressively hetero planet of The Bachelor and its various spinoffs. By expanding it to include international versions of the franchise, I was really able to grow this list!
Gabby Windey
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In August 2023, Gabby Windey came out when talking about her girlfriend, comedian Robby Hoffman, on The View. She participated in season 26 of The Bachelor, competing for Clayton Echard’s rose.
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- Gabby Windey has married comedian Robby Hoffman.
- Windey is part of a growing list of LGBTQ+ members of Bachelor Nation.
- Colton Underwood, Jasmine Goode, and Becca Tilley have identified as part of the queer community.
Gabby Windey, a former "Bachelorette" lead, announced on Wednesday that she and her partner, Robby Hoffman, got married in Las Vegas earlier in the year.
Windey came out as gay in August 2023 during an appearance on "The View." Since then, she's been dating Hoffman, a comedian — and in March 2025, they revealed to Cosmopolitan that they'd eloped in Vegas after evacuating from the Los Angeles fires.
After starring on "The Bachelorette," Windey has become a breakout luminary of reality TV. She was the runner-up of season 31 of "Dancing with the Stars" and made it to the
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