Ronen Rubenstein is sharing his truth in a new profile.
The 27-year-old
9-1-1: Lone Star actor, who plays openly gay character T.K. Strand on the hit series, just came out as bisexual.
“I fully identify as bisexual,”
Ronen told
Variety. “I literally just got goosebumps saying that. It feels so good to talk about it, it feels so good to finally be comfortable with it.”
Ronen‘s role on the series is what led to him accepting his sexuality.
“The biggest thing for me is where I come from, it’s like people like me and people who have identified as bisexual or gay or as any part of the community, you’re just not welcomed. It’s as brutally honest as that,” he added. “It’s either you faced insane amounts of profanity, like the F-word was thrown around all the time or you would get your ass kicked if you were gay. So there was definitely a fear of sort of embracing how I felt. I was definitely more aware of it in high school. I was aware of my feelings and ho