“I’m lucky because my family wants nothing but the best for me. So drop the cloak, drop the act just be yourself.” “As I grew older and as I matured, I realized that the best thing that you can really offer your family is to be yourself. Like, ‘Can I go through this first before you label me anything?’”īut Raymond realized that he owed it to himself, his family, and his friends to be true to himself. “I was still going through so many emotions at that time that I had no idea. You walk in to backstage and people will say, ‘Ah, diba ‘yun ‘yung baklang kapatid ni Richard (Isn’t that Richard’s gay brother)’ Like I can literally hear them.” “Being gay now is not the same as being gay back then. He also recalled that he was even bullied when he was starting in the TV industry. So, that was kind of like the burden that I was carrying.” Things that I do will not only affect me, but will also affect my family. “Being part of a family that is in the public space – we’re all entertainers for many generations already – I wasn’t deciding on things just on my own. Raymond, the twin brother of actor Richard Gutierrez and son of celebrity couple Eddie Gutierrez and Anabelle Rama, added that he had to consider how his sexuality would affect his family’s image.
