Teen Wolf actor Charlie Carver came out yesterday on Instagram.
Carver shared five emotional posts on Instagram, explaining his decision to come out and to live openly and authentically, writes Hayley Miller on the HRC Blog. Each post was a picture of an image that read, “Be who you needed when you were younger.”
“As a young boy, I knew I wanted to be an actor…It was around that age that I also knew, however abstractly, that I was different from some of the other boys in my grade,” he wrote in his first post. “Over time, this abstract ‘knowing’ grew and articulated itself through a painful gestation marked by feelings of despair and alienation, ending in a climax of saying three words out loud: ‘I am gay.’”
The 27-year-old actor is best known for his roles in Teen Wolf, Desperate Housewives and The Leftovers.
