On the magazine's cover, Haynes, then 17, gazes at the camera while embracing his real-life boyfriend. But soon after his acting debut, queer publications unearthed surprising pictures of the onetime Abercrombie and Fitch model posing for the queer youth magazine XY. His character had a girlfriend, and he was assumed to be hetero offscreen.
Colton Haynes first came to fame as an all-American dreamboat on Teen Wolf, MTV’s breakout scripted hit from 2011.