Lynn & Alex from Season 7 will be getting married on June 1, in Ottawa, Canada. In an interview with The Ottawa Sun, they talk about coming out to their families.

Alex says that he held off telling his Egyptian-born father until filming was over. His father’s responded “with shock and blaming himself and blaming me and everybody,” he says. “It has caused all the problems in my family that I knew it would”.

But he’s not sorry that he did it. “It has also given me a lot of courage because it took a huge weight off my shoulders,” he says. “And now that it’s out in the open and really out in the open, like national TV out in the open, I feel like I’m free to live my life the way I want”.

Lynn also talks about his worries about coming out to his family, saying “My dad being in the military for 25 years I was really worried about how he would take it. But the first words he said were, ‘I just want you to know that I will always love you and this doesn’t make any difference.’”

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