I advocate mental health for all and a part of that is self transparency. In doing my work, I’ve come to see a few truths, one of them being that I want to be free to love whomever I want.
This truth makes me Pan and part of the Igbtq+ family.
This shouldn’t shake anyone’s world, but if it bothers you at all, that’s your business: I was so afraid of having my manhood questioned, but screw that. A ‘real man’ in my eyes, isn’t afraid to be honest and happy.
From now on, I’ll be over here living my best life.
Brady explained that he arrived at pansexual and not bisexual because, to him,
…pan means being able to be attracted to anyone who identifies as gay, straight, bi, transsexual or non-binary.
(It’s) being able to be attracted across the board. Bisexual – with an open mind.”
In an interview withPeople, the 51-year-old opened up about his journey and how his sexuality was accepted by his daughter and ex-wife
People interviewed Brady while the family – 20-year-old daughter, Maile, ex-wife Mandie Taketa and her partner Jason Fordham – were filming for a reality series about their blended family.
Taketa was the first person Brady came out to,
I just said, ‘Great.’ As I knew coming out would help him be happier.”
For daughter Maile, it was an even more simple response,
Okay.”
Brady told People,
If I’m healthy, then I can go onstage at ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ and be the best Wayne Brady that everybody wants and expects … and one day, the best partner to someone, because I’m doing this for me.”
