Charlie Carver (Photo: Miikka Skaffari/WireImage)
In a long and incredibly thoughtful note on Instagram, Charlie Carver, one half of the Carver twins who you may recognize from The Leftovers, Teen Wolf, or as Felicity Huffman’s twin boys on Desperate Housewives, has come out.
Carver, 27, begins by speaking about himself as a young boy — he made his acting debut alongside his twin brother Max in Desperate Housewives.
“I … knew, however abstractly, that I was different from some of the other boys in my grade,” Carver writes. “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.’”
“If you’re ready and feel safe, then think about sharing this part of yourself with others,” Carver says. “I recognize that I was born with an immense amount of privilege, growing up in a family where my orientation was celebrated and SAFE. If you feel like you want to Come Out, make sure first and foremost that you have a support system and will be safe. I would never encourage anyone to Come Out only to find themselves in harm’s way — a disproportionate number of homeless American (and global) youth are members of the LGBTQ community who were kicked out of their families and homes out of hate and prejudice.”
In a long and incredibly thoughtful note on Instagram, Charlie Carver, one half of the Carver twins who you may recognize from The Leftovers, Teen Wolf, or as Felicity Huffman’s twin boys on Desperate Housewives, has come out.
Carver, 27, begins by speaking about himself as a young boy — he made his acting debut alongside his twin brother Max in Desperate Housewives.
“I … knew, however abstractly, that I was different from some of the other boys in my grade,” Carver writes. “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.’”
“If you’re ready and feel safe, then think about sharing this part of yourself with others,” Carver says. “I recognize that I was born with an immense amount of privilege, growing up in a family where my orientation was celebrated and SAFE. If you feel like you want to Come Out, make sure first and foremost that you have a support system and will be safe. I would never encourage anyone to Come Out only to find themselves in harm’s way — a disproportionate number of homeless American (and global) youth are members of the LGBTQ community who were kicked out of their families and homes out of hate and prejudice.”
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