Adamo Ruggiero Comes Out Gay
Degrassi cutie, Adamo Ruggiero, just made the show a whole lot gayer. Adamo, who plays a gay student on the hit show, just came out of the closet himself! The cute 21 year old actor spent most of his teenage years on the show playing Marcos, and like his character, struggled to accept his sexuality and come out to his friends and family. Adamo says that his character help him cope with own sexuality… Marcos just happen to come out of the closet a little faster in TV world. See what else Adamo has to say after the jump.
“It really scared me…Everything I was feeling, and all the questions I was having, were kind of being broadcast to the world.”
Adamo joked, “the upside was inheriting an instruction manual for coming out”.
“Every time Marco did it, I did it. Marco came out to his mom in his room, on the bed, and I did the exact same thing with my mother in my bedroom. Marco confronted his dad in his kitchen, and I did the exact same thing with my dad, in my kitchen. And I didn’t plan it that way. Maybe it’s life imitating art, or maybe Degrassi let me do something real. I feel like I’m living proof of what this show was working to accomplish.”
Aww, he’s getting cuter by the letters ;-) Adamo’s coming out story will also be featured on Canadian Fab Magazine.
“I was growing up at the exact same time that my character was growing up. He was questioning things that I was questioning and I was just a kid and I’m completely petrified and you don’t really understand or know where you fit in or who you are, and my character’s asking these exact same questions, but he moved along a little faster than I did - for TV time’s sake.
I think it really scared me. I think I suddenly had this kind of third life. There was the composed life and the TV life, and then there was my personal life in a way. So it was a little overwhelming in the sense that everything that I was feeling…”
Congrats for coming out Adamo. We’re all proud of you!
You can check out the full interview here.
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March 1st, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Adamo Ruggiero is such an inspiration to all, including myself, i’m also gay. to tell you the truth to be honest i was just like Marco in school (in middle school) I came out in 2001 at the age of 14, I love the show Degrassi, it’s awesome. Had my first love at 19, but now im focused on myself. Becoming an artist. Since in 2003, I watched Adamo on Degrassi. He has set the bar to a beginning that never ends. and his coming out publicly is very brave.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:13 am
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June 22nd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Hey im only 14 but i watch degrassi, i think he is so brave and im a boy and im gay but im afraid to come out, also in the town i live in everyone knows eachother and everyone is straight (or pretends to be). I just dont want the whole town laughing at me and there is no other boys that are gay.. if adamo ruggero reads this find my email and i want to talk to you about some stuff.
July 1st, 2008 at 9:22 am
hey, good for him.it is really hard to come out of the closet in front of the whole world. I’m a girl im 14 but im bisexual. I recently came out with my true self. It was really diffucult. I’m glad he did the best thing and not deny who he was like i did. He was extremely brave.
August 26th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
i have been watching degrassi just for few weeks.
it is hard for him to tell everyone that he is gay.
really love him.