At the rate we are going, we might have to change the title of the show to ‘Two Homos and the Straight Dude.’ … You know Madison chose to come out on TV and make a big to do about it, which I respect.
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Madison just decided to come out on national television before I did, but as far as I know, I was out to the people I wanted to be out to well before Madison was. Josh also differentiates his decision to share his sexual orientation with viewers from Madison’s: “Madison did not beat me to the punch. I am very glad I did things the way I did because I feel I eased people into it and I made people comfortable with ME, and then kind of just dropped the fact that I like guys instead of girls. In an interview with San Diego Gay and Lesbian News, Josh said he waited to come out publicly until now because “I did not ever want people to think of me as ‘the gay real estate guy,’ I did not want that to be the only demographic that was watching me on TV or the only demographic to associate with me. Josh’s Facebook profile says he’s been in a relationship with Colton since October 24, 2007, and as this 2009 photo shows, they’re obviously together in public, just not on the show. That wasn’t explained on the show–I wouldn’t expect Million Dollar Listing to have a coherent narrative–but he was referring to Colton Thorn, Josh’s long-time boyfriend/partner. Last week’s episode hinted at Josh’s coming out when Josh discussed his book with someone who asked if “Colton” knew about certain content in the book. (He previously wrote A Simple Girl: Stories My Grandmother Told Me, which is about his grandmother, Edith Flagg, easily the best character on the show who has a pretty fascinating story herself.) That changes on Tuesday’s episode, which, in a remarkable coincidence, happens to be the same day that Josh’s second book, a memoir that includes discussion of his sexuality, will be released. But while Madison Hildebrand started as quasi-straight and eventually discovered his sexuality in about 90 seconds of thinly developed narrative, Josh Flagg’s dating life has never been a part of the show, although his Judaism and other aspects of his personal life have been included. For the second time in two seasons, a cast member on Bravo’s docudrama Million Dollar Listing is coming out as gay.