Josh groban is gay

Despite ongoing speculation, Josh Groban isn't gay -- and not even Ryan Gosling can change that. "If I was gonna be gay, that would've been the moment. That was probably my greatest test. Josh Groban and his girlfriend, British stage star Natalie McQueen, are a match made in theater heaven. While the singer has kept details of his romance with the actress mostly private, he has.

“I’m like, ‘Are you a baseball team?’” says Josh Groban, recalling an early-career encounter with a man who informed the crooner about his growing number of gay bear fans. Nearly 15 years. Actually, Josh Groban is not gay. After years of speculation, Groban finally addressed the allegations about his sexuality in an interview with the online magazine ET.

Groban, 34, who has sold over 25 million records worldwide since releasing his self-titled debut in , has insisted that if he was gay, he wouldn’t have had an issue with being open about it “from day one”. It all began with the bears.

Nearly 15 years later, members of the LGBT community — even the non-hairy ones — are still feeling struck and soothed by Groban's elastic range. While discussing the release during a recent interview, the year-old also highlighted the significance of performing with the Washington, D. Gay Men's Chorus during Obama's ial inauguration, the validation his younger "awkward" self felt after being named "Sexiest Newcomer" and how Ryan Gosling put the singer's sexuality to the test.

I'll always put my gay on for Rufus. During an interview you did regarding that performance, Rufus referred to you as a "dreamboat. Yeah, it's happened from time to time. Look, when Rufus Wainwright is complimenting you, musically or otherwise, it's a great honor. Something that was surprising to me that happened when I first got signed at 19, 20 years old: I was at some kind of shop, and I was walking around with someone — it was probably my girlfriend — and this guy comes up to me and goes, "Hey, I just want you to know, the bears love you.

I'm like, "Are you a baseball team? How did you figure out what type of bears he was referring to? I think some Googling had to take place. And it was like, "Oh. If you could duet on a love song with any man, who would it be and why? If I could sing with any man, it would probably be Brian Stokes Mitchell. I love his voice, and I grew up listening to his voice. There's such a warm tone to the way he sings, and he's just such a great actor and a really great guy.

You're from L. I imagine you've been immersed in the gay community for much of your life. Did you find a lot of gay people gravitating to you at a young age? Like you said, I went to a wonderful arts camp at Interlochen. I went to a great arts high school in Los Angeles — L. County High School for the Arts — and grew up in Los Angeles and with a wonderful arts background, and I got to meet all sorts of people.

Many of my friends were gay at these places — at camp, at school. The wonderful thing I found about the arts and the arts connection was, I had come from a situation where I had a hard time making friends at school and I was bullied, and I finally went to school where everybody had the same inspiration for the arts, everybody had the same passion.

It was the first situation where I had felt that everybody was friends with everybody, and everybody felt the most comfortable being themselves at these places.

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And so, for me, the arts were the first scenario where I found a connective tissue between everybody. When you look back, did that closeness to the queer community ever make you question your own sexuality? No, not at all. It wasn't in any way, shape or form about my own life or my own sexuality — it was about understanding and accepting everybody, and being friends regardless of that.

I think that's also what the straight community needs to understand — that it's about friendship and alliance. It's not about questioning yourself or anything like that — it's about the togetherness of it. I think the wonderful thing about the arts is that I grew up in a community where I felt there was acceptance and friendship regardless of our own personal lives.