PRIDE: Soccer star Robbie Rogers on coming out. 'I just wish that I had that courage when I was younger, when I was in the Olympics, to be like Gus Kenworthy or Tom Daley'
— the prolific TV producer behind such hits as “Riverdale” and “Supergirl” — couldn’t have scripted meeting his husband better if he’d written it himself. At a 2013 rooftop Pride party, a friend offered to introduce Berlanti to, the professional soccer player who had recently joined the L.A. Galaxy. “I’m slightly embarrassed to say this part,” Berlanti recalls. “My friend said to me at the time, ‘I’m going to introduce you to your next boyfriend.
They started out as friends. Only later did their relationship turn romantic, after Rogers invited Berlanti to be his plus-one at the ESPY Awards, an event that Berlanti — who doesn’t watch sports — wouldn’t normally have attended. “It happened organically for me, and I just fell in love with him over time,” Rogers says. “If I’m going to fall for someone, I have to get to know them. I’ve never been much of a one-night-stand person.
They officially wed in 2017, and had a second child — daughter Mia, who joined older brother Caleb. They’ve noticed how much progress they’ve seen in the LGBTQ movement in a relatively short time. In 2018, Berlanti directed “Love, Simon,” the first teen gay romantic comedy released by a studio. “It’s hanging over my head, that anything else I do, Robbie will never like it as much,” Berlanti says. “That’s not true!” Rogers responds.
Like a lot of things as a LGBTQ person, it meant so much more than I ever realized. I guess when you tell yourself this may not happen to you for so long, you learn to live without the possibility of something like that. And then when it goes happen, it makes it even more profound, because you never thought you’d get there.It was not. The day Caleb was born, I was so in love and so obsessed with this little creature and so worried for how I was going to take care of him.
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