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Oct 08 2017
YOUNGER Star Dan Amboyer Gets Married, Comes Out As Gay Comments (0)

Screen Shot 2017-10-08 at 2.48.12 PMYounger's Dan Amboyer has always kept people guessing about his sexual orientation — but no more.

He is now on-the-record gay after wedding longtime BF Eric P. Berger, a financial planner, in NYC Saturday.

Amboyer also opened up to People about his journey from closeted newbie to out TV star ...

Screen Shot 2017-10-08 at 2.46.50 PMMr. and Mr. Amboyer-Berger (Image via Instagram @danamboyer)

Via People

“Being a young actor in the industry, I had a lot of people who strongly advised me to stay quiet,” Amboyer tells PEOPLE. “That was hard to live with. But I’ve never played a gay role before and I didn’t want to be limited by some strange perception.”

So as he found Hollywood success, he kept quiet about his decade-long relationship with financial planner Eric P. Berger.

“When I went to work on a new show or film, there was always a process of letting people know,” explains Amboyer, who plays twins Thad and Chad on TV Land’s Younger and scored a recurring role on The Blacklist: Redemption.

But on Saturday — in front of 115 family and friends — Amboyer, 31, wed Berger, 37, in New York City and is opening up for the first time publicly about his relationship.

“It was a hard decision to figure out how to approach it in a public way,” says Amboyer. “There are some actors out there now who just keep it as an unspoken aspect of their life and never discuss it in public. But then there are men like Matt Bomer and Zachary Quinto. I look up to them and see how them being so open affected other people and the country’s perception of gay people. And Nico Tortorella, who is also on Younger, has inspired me by the way he’s become such an advocate for gender fluidity. I think the more open actors can be the less stigma there will be attached, which will be a positive thing moving forward.”

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