Is michael tate gay

Former Newsboys lead singer and DC Talk founder Michael Tait has been the subject of a maelstrom of rumor and innuendo over why he suddenly stepped down from the band that he fronted for a decade, with a noted and prominent LGBTQ activist claiming he left because he was outed as a gay man, while also accusing him of being a serial sexual abuser and a predator.

Michael DeWayne Tait (born May 18, ) is a former American contemporary Christian music artist. Tait met Toby McKeehan in when he was in high school. Both Tait and McKeehan and Michael met Kevin Max while attending Liberty University in the late s, and together they formed four-time Grammy winning band DC Talk, releasing five acclaimed studio albums. Following the group's entrance.