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Lance Bass: "The music industry is still very homophobic"

Singer and TV personality Lance Bass has revealed that coming out as gay once *NSYNC called time on their successful career showed him how homophobic the music industry really was. 

Chatting to Billboard magazine this week, he explained that the band's end was complicated:  

“When *NSYNC ended, it was a rocky time, because I came out of the closet. The music industry is still very homophobic. I 100 percent felt that — even to this day I feel that."  

"When I found out there wouldn’t be another *NSYNC album, I wanted to try some solo stuff, but my record label never returned a call. My manager never called me. I lost everyone. Even Michael Jackson had to have the best people to succeed. Without that support, there’s no way you’re going to make it in the industry.” 

Referring to his showbiz career now, Bass explained that he feels a need to make sure every project he undertakes allows him to "give back" in some way: “Everything I do in entertainment, it has to have some element of giving back. I wanted to be a part of [Finding Prince Charming] because I knew this would help a lot of people, and people could see some really wonderful storylines." 

"There are a lot of stigmas in our community, and they’re going to hit those on the head a lot during this series. Things we don’t really talk about in public: the stigma of HIV/AIDS, conversion therapy, stuff that the straight community doesn’t know much about. I hope this show educates them.”  

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