All singing, all dancing

All kidding aside, kudos to *NSYNC's Lance Bass for coming out as a gay man. Any time is the right time.

But he is not the first boy band performer to come out of the closet. In the modern era of boy bands, that tradition goes back at least as far as Stephen Gately, of Ireland's Boyzone. He came out around the same time I did. I recall that this seemed significant at the time.