Former Bachelor Colton Underwood received well-wishes from several celebrities, including Billy Eichner and Dan Levy , after he came out as gay last week. But his announcement drew a fair number of critics , too.

Much of the ire was focused on the 29-year-olds plans to document his coming out journey in an upcoming Netflix series featuring Olympian Gus Kenworthy as his gay guide. Others pointed to the fact that Underwoods ex-girlfriend Cassie Randolph accused him of stalking her last year a point overlooked in many of last weeks reports.

Lance Bass summed up some of those less-than-enthusiastic sentiments during an appearance on The Ben & Ashley I. Almost Famous podcast last week.

Hes definitely going to get a lot of backlash from the community at first, the former *NSYNC star said in the interview. There is a small percentage of the community thats just going to not like the fact he came out this way, that hes monetizing the experience.

Bass said Underwoods series would probably ultimately help the [LGBTQ] community, but that it would take some time.

When you first come out, most people ... have no clue about the LGBT community, he said. They dont know what the issues are, they have no idea because theyve been so separated from that on purpose. So when someone comes out as a public figure, so many people immediately go to: Screw that! Its too late. They dont like to support it because they dont feel like you know what youre talking about yet.