Jonathan Knight tells Entertainment Tonight that if times were different in the late ’80s, he would’ve been “openly gay from day one” with New Kids on the Block, “and it wouldn’t have been an issue. Back then there was such a stigma that I couldn’t even tell my best friend.” Knight noted that he also went to prom with a lot of Catholic girls who were his “really good friends” and wouldn’t have expected him to put the moves on them. “Today most girls love gay guys and would be like, ‘Yeah! Let’s go to prom!’ Being able to be open back then, we would’ve just had a better time. I know I would have.”

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