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But it still feels like the character is eternally tied to his sexuality and all of the suffering it brought him in his formative years.

In interviews promoting his 2003 memoir, he advised other handsome leading actors to keep their sexuality to themselves.

He did not publicly address his sexuality until the release of his memoir, Shattered Love, in 2003, where he revealed that he was gay.

Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis also spent years feuding with Disney, after the company criticised a state law, known as "Don't Say Gay" that restricted the teaching of sexuality in schools.

Ben Gibbons, now 38, says he needed years of therapy after an elder at his church forced him to make himself sick every time he had "impure thoughts", in an attempt to change his sexuality.