Colton Underwood publicly came out as gay in April 2021 during an interview on Good Morning America.

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  • Colton Underwood is a former NFL player and lead of The Bachelor who later shared that he is gay.
  • He came out in a nationally televised sit‑down with Robin Roberts on Good Morning America in April 2021, describing it as the next step after privately accepting his sexuality earlier that year.
  • His coming out later became the focus of the Netflix docuseries Coming Out Colton , which follows his early life as a newly out gay man.

“I’ve ran from myself for a long time. I’ve hated myself for a long time, and I’m gay… The next step in all of this was letting people know.” — Colton on his 2021 interview.

TL;DR: When did Colton Underwood come out? In April 2021, on Good Morning America , and that moment set up the story later explored in his Netflix series Coming Out Colton.

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