‘Ugly Betty’ star Mark Indelicato on having his sexuality scrutinized as a teen: “It wasn’t anyone’s business”

On a positive note, I will say that our journeys [Mark and his character Justin Suarez] intersected at the same time.

Similarly to the ways in which people talk to me about how Justin helped them on their own journey of coming out or whether or not watching that on television helped them be allies to their friends and family that were maybe going through the same thing.

There were all of these struggles that he was going through that I felt gave me a lot of power to deal with in my own life.

Looking back, while I’m extremely grateful, it’s also really tough to be a teenager and be going through the same thing but also having to be the poster child for anything.

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