16 Bachelor Stars Who Have Come Out as LGBTQ+ – See Who Found Love Beyond the Show!

• Gabby Windey has married comedian Robby Hoffman.

• Windey is part of a growing list of LGBTQ+ members of Bachelor Nation.

• Colton Underwood, Jasmine Goode, and Becca Tilley have identified as part of the queer community.

Gabby Windey, a former "Bachelorette" lead, announced on Wednesday that she and her partner, Robby Hoffman, got married in Las Vegas earlier in the year.

Windey came out as queer in August 2023 during an appearance on "The View." Since then, she's been dating Hoffman, a comedian — and in March 2025, they revealed to Cosmopolitan that they'd eloped in Vegas after evacuating from the Los Angeles fires.

After starring on "The Bachelorette," Windey has become a breakout star of reality TV. She was the runner-up of season 31 of "Dancing with the Stars" and made it to the finale of the third season of "The Traitors." She also has her own podcast, "Long Winded with Gabby Windey."

Windey is part of a growing community of LGBTQ+ people who have appeared on "The Bachelor" and its related spinoffs around the world.

Here's who else has identified as LGBTQ+ from "The Bachelor."

Gabby Windey

Windey appeared first on Clayton Echard's season of "The Bachelor" before becoming the "Bachelorette" herself alongside Rachel Recchia in 2022. After breaking off her engagement to Erich Schwer, Windey was publicly single until August 2023.

On August 2, 2023, the "Dancing with the Stars" star posted a carousel of photos on Instagram with Hoffman, along with the caption, "Told you I'm a girls girl." On the same day, she appeared on "The View" to talk about her new relationship.

"I don't want to live and not be living my full truth," she said on the show. "I don't want to do that to myself. I don't want to do it to my girlfriend."

In March 2025, Windey and Hoffman revealed to Cosmopolitan that they had gotten married in Las Vegas while they were evacuating from the LA wildfires. "Everything just fell into place so naturally. It felt so serendipitous and so precious and so meant to be," said Windey.

Colton Underwood

Underwood originally appeared on Becca Kufrin's season of "The Bachelorette" in May 2018, before moving to "Bachelor in Paradise" and finally to his own season of "The Bachelor" in January 2019. At the time, he was marketed as the "virgin Bachelor."

He dated Cassie Randolph for around a year before the two split, with Randolph filing for a restraining order against Underwood in September 2020, People reported. The outlet reported that the restraining order was dropped that November.

Months later, in April 2021, Underwood came out as gay during an interview on "Good Morning America."

"I'm emotional, but I'm emotional in such a good, happy, positive way," Underwood told "Good Morning America's" Robin Roberts. "I'm the happiest and healthiest that I've ever been in my life, and that means the world to me."

It made him the first former lead to be part of the LGBTQ+ community and the first gay man involved with the show. His journey was documented on the Netflix series "Coming Out Colton."

In May 2023, Underwood married political strategist Jordan C. Brown, per People. Their son Bishop was born via surrogate in September 2024.

Becca Tilley

Tilley, who appeared on both Chris Soules' and Ben Higgins' seasons of "The Bachelor" in 2015 and 2016, respectively, kept her relationship status a secret for years.

In late 2018, she revealed she was dating someone on her podcast, "Scrubbing In," though she kept the details private.

Then, on May 20, 2022, Tilley starred in the music video for Hayley Kiyoko's song, "For the Girls," which spoofed "The Bachelorette." The same day, Tilley went public with the relationship, posting a video to Instagram.

"I didn't even give people a chance to be more open-minded than I thought. People were just rooting for me to find love. They just were rooting for my happiness," Tilley said, speaking of her fans to The Cut in July 2022.

"These people were also rooting for me to get engaged in eight weeks," she joked. "They may not have the best perspective in all cases."

Kaitlyn Bristowe

Bristowe, who first appeared on Chris Soules' season of "The Bachelor" in 2015 before starring in her own season of "The Bachelorette" that year, had come out as bisexual to her friends and family before appearing on reality TV.

On a 2023 episode of the "Out & About" podcast, Bristowe told the hosts she had shared her sexuality with the show's psychologist during the casting process, who recommended she not share her true orientation.

"She was like, 'Don't tell [producers] that you're into women, they might spin it,"' Bristowe said.

Jasmine Goode

Goode, who originally appeared on Nick Viall's season of "The Bachelor" in January 2017, appears to have been dating blogger Melissa Marie since at least 2021.

Marie has called Goode "the woman who stole my heart" in an Instagram post celebrating the "Bachelor" star's birthday in June 2023. Goode also cheered her partner on as she appeared on "Squid Game: The Challenge."

Marie and Goode have since appeared together on the "Vanderpump Rules" spinoff "The Valley" — and the two got engaged in November 2024, which means that it might be seen in season two.

Elizabeth Corrigan

To celebrate Pride Month in June 2022, Corrigan, who appeared on Clayton Echard's season of "The Bachelor" earlier that year, wrote about her sexuality in an Instagram post.

"It's important to me today to share with you all that I am queer. More specifically I am, always have been, and always will be bisexual," she wrote in the caption of her post.

Brooke Blurton

Blurton made "Bachelorette" history as the first bisexual lead in 2021 — her season featured men and women for the first time.

Blurton, who was also the first Indigenous lead in "Bachelorette Australia's" history, appeared on both "The Bachelor" and "Bachelor in Paradise" in Australia in 2019. On camera, she came out to Nick, a fellow contestant on "Paradise," and shared that she had been in previous relationships with women.

At the time, the show's casting call asked for both men and women to apply, a first for the entire franchise worldwide.

At the end of her season of "The Bachelorette," which concluded in November 2021, Blurton ended up choosing to date Darvid Garayeli.

However, in January 2022, Garayeli and Blurton confirmed on their respective Instagram stories that they had broken up, as Yahoo! Lifestyle reported at the time.

Blurton is now dating an actor, Mia Pimentel.

Demi Burnett

Burnett was introduced to audiences during Colton Underwood's season in January 2019, becoming one of the most popular people from the franchise.

When she went on "Paradise" in August 2019, she initially began exploring a relationship with Derek Peth, before admitting she had been dating someone before the show who she was still interested in — a woman named Kristian Haggerty.

Haggerty eventually joined the cast of "Paradise" and the two remained together for the rest of the season, becoming the first same-sex couple in the show's history.

Burnett proposed at the end of the season, but they broke up a few months later in October 2019, confirming the end of their relationship with a statement on Instagram.

Alexa Caves

Caves appeared on Weber's season of "The Bachelor" in January 2020. After she was eliminated, she took to her Instagram stories to address her sexuality that month, Yahoo! reported.

"The amount of people that ask me about my sexuality in my DM's is crazy. Lol I've been getting it since the first episode," she wrote at the time. "I'm fluid. I've been with women and I've been with men. I'm open-minded. To me, this really isn't a big deal," she continued. "I just do my thang."

Jaimi King

King was a contestant on Nick Viall's season in January 2017, and she was open about her bisexuality from the moment she appeared on the show — she was the first woman in "Bachelor" history to be openly bisexual.

She reappeared on "Paradise" that summer and made it clear she was open to pursuing relationships with men or women.

When asked if she thought the show was too conservative in a 2017 interview with Refinery29, King said, "I guess I would say they're less conservative. I wouldn't say they cared about my sexuality like that. They probably wanted to take advantage of it. Like, 'Hey, we should probably highlight this because we do want to move in a more progressive way.'"

She's now married to graphic designer Geoff Parrish.

Abbie Chatfield

Chatfield, of the Australian "Bachelor," has spoken about her evolving sexuality on her podcast, "It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield."

She appeared on Matt Agnew's season of the Australian "Bachelor" back in July 2019 and then on Australia's "Bachelor in Paradise."

In the caption of an Instagram post in which she shared a clip from an episode of her podcast in April 2023, she wrote that she wondered whether she was "a bisexual with ADHD that needs extra stimulus or just a lesbian who has compulsory heterosexual tendencies," after sharing that she was thinking about women while she was with men.

Kristian Haggerty

Although Haggerty hadn't been on a "Bachelor" show before, when she showed up and joined the cast of "Bachelor in Paradise" in the summer of 2019 to get back together with Demi Burnett, she became a member of "Bachelor Nation."

The two got engaged at the end of the season but broke up a few months later, in October, announcing their split in a joint statement on Instagram.

Haggerty is now engaged to influencer/lifestyle blogger Taylor Blake, according to her Instagram.

Minh Thu

Thu's emotional declaration of love for her fellow contestant, Truc Nhu, instead of the lead of "The Bachelor: Vietnam," went viral in 2018, as BuzzFeed News reported at the time.

On the show, Thu confessed that she had fallen in love with someone — just not the Bachelor — and then asked Nhu to leave with her.

While Nhu decided to stay, the two began dating once Nhu was eliminated from the show.

"Going the traditional way and having a husband and child doesn't necessarily mean that you will find happiness," Thu told BuzzFeed News in October 2018.

Truc Nhu

When Nhu was eliminated from the show, the two started dating.

Speaking to BuzzFeed News in October 2018, Nhu said she missed Thu immediately.

"The moment when Minh Thu left and I stayed behind, I had a lot of longing. I had a lot of memories of our time together," she said.

It's unclear whether the two are still dating, but, in April 2019, they appeared to be together, as The Pink News reported they had attended Hanoi Pride together.

Megan Marx

Marx met Tiffany Scanlon in July 2016 while they were competing on Richie Strahan's season of "The Bachelor: Australia." Their close friendship sparked speculation at the time, as Elle Australia reported.

Marx seemingly confirmed their relationship on Instagram in October 2016.

"From that first cocktail party, it was like this instant calibration between souls, as if we had known each other once before. Friendship ripened into something bolder," she wrote in the caption of her post, which she signed off with: "Happy birthday Tiffany. I love you."

However, the relationship didn't last and they broke up in March 2017, according to a since-deleted Instagram comment, The Daily Mail reported. She confirmed the news during an interview with TheFIX later that month.

In January 2021, Marx spoke about the breakup on the "So Dramatic" podcast.

"Basically we ended up really not liking each other as human beings. It was just a disaster," she said on the podcast, according to the Australian outlet Now to Love. "There was all this pressure. The biggest thing was letting down the LGBTIQ community."

Tiffany Scanlon

Scanlon hasn't really spoken much about their breakup, though she did write about it on her blog in November 2017.

"I was finding it more and more difficult to enjoy myself now that we were more recognizable to the public," she wrote. "Strangers grabbing at us for pictures, not even introducing themselves or talking to us, men asking for threesomes, people accusing us of faking our relationship."

She later joined the cast of "The Bachelor: Winter Games
in 2018, but didn't make any connections.

As of 2024, Scanlon doesn't appear to have made her relationship status public.

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