Ricky Mart Rells Comg Out as Gay - Variety

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• RICKY MART ON G OUT AS GAY: 'I'VE BEEN SUPER HAPPY EVER SCE'
• RICKY MART REFLECTS ON NOT BEG READY TO E OUT AS GAY, HOW 'AMAZG' FELT WHEN HE DID
• RICKY MART ON THE MOMENT HE CID TO E OUT AS GAY: ‘I’VE BEEN SUPER HAPPY EVER SCE’
• RICKY MART REVEALS HE'S GAY
• RICKY MART TALKS NEW MIC, WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A GAY LATO IN
• RICKY MART RELEAS HIS FIRST ALBUM AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
• RICKY MART REVEALS HE IS GAY
• LAT SGER RICKY MART SAYS HE IS GAY
• RICKY MART IS A PROUD GAY FATHER — MEET HIS FOUR KIDS BORN VIA SURROGATE
• RICKY MART ON THE MOMENT HE DECID TO COME OUT AS GAY: ‘I’VE BEEN SUPER HAPPY EVER SCE’

RICKY MART ON G OUT AS GAY: 'I'VE BEEN SUPER HAPPY EVER SCE'

”“I got to the place I was fightg as I was wrg my book between sayg, ‘Am I gay?

Am I gay? And then I said, ‘Rick, you are a very fortunate homosexual man.

You are gay.

RICKY MART REFLECTS ON NOT BEG READY TO E OUT AS GAY, HOW 'AMAZG' FELT WHEN HE DID

"Am I gay? In 2000, when he was 29, he was asked by Barbara Walters on natnal televisn if he was gay.

"You uld say, 'Y I am gay or no I'm not. "Mart officially me out via a statement on his webse 2010, statg: "I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. "Mart said, " jt felt amazg" when he eventually share wh the world that he was gay, but he knows everyone do so their own time and when they feel fortable.

" "I got to the place I was fightg as I was wrg my book between sayg, 'Am I gay? And then I said, 'Rick, you are a very fortunate homosexual man.

RICKY MART ON THE MOMENT HE CID TO E OUT AS GAY: ‘I’VE BEEN SUPER HAPPY EVER SCE’

After years of sisteppg qutns about his sexual orientatn, sger Ricky Mart reveals a heartfelt postg onle that he is gay. “I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man, ” Mart, 38, said Monday on “I am very blsed to be who I am.

RICKY MART REVEALS HE'S GAY

After Mart’s announcement Monday, the Gay, Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn issued a statement support of the sger.

“When someone like Ricky Mart out, hundreds of lns of people now have a cultural nnectn wh an artist, a celebry and, perhaps most importantly, a father who happens to be gay, ” said Jarrett Barrs, Print of GLAAD. “His cisn to mol this kd of openns and honty n lead to greater acceptance for untls gay people U. I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man.

RICKY MART TALKS NEW MIC, WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A GAY LATO IN

In 2010, the Puerto Rin sger me out to his fans as a gay man; nearly 10 years later, he received his first Emmy nomatn, for his role The Assassatn of Gianni Versace: Amerin Crime Story. It really tickl me to see Bad Bunny as a gay in — jt like Cher uld be.

To see Rossello rign, pecially after those flammatory chats were leaked [where Mart is scribed as a “male chvist” for beg gay] — was a powerful show of force. And there’s no blueprt for beg a gay parent. Ricky Mart opened up about the personal stggle he endured g to terms wh his sexualy while also wantg to bee a a new ver story for Out magaze, the 48-year-old sger said that he had difficulty acceptg that a gay man n also be a dad.

RICKY MART RELEAS HIS FIRST ALBUM AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN

“Many years I dreamt of beg a father, and many, many, many tim I went through this grievg procs of I am gay, I am a closeted gay man, and I’m not gog to be able to be a daddy, ” he said of his experience. “Obvly adoptn is an optn and ’s very betiful, but unfortunately for gay men ’s very difficult to adopt some untri, ” he, who nfirmed his marriage to Jwan Yosef 2018, is father to four kids: tws Valento and Matteo, born 2008, dghter Lucia, 1, and newborn son Renn, 9 four of Mart's children were born via surrogate.

Sger Ricky Mart, who publicly me out as gay 2010, told the magaze that Bad Bunny, born Beno Os, had bee “an in for the Lat queer muny”’s genero praise falls le wh the recent attentn Bunny has received on social media and om LGBTQ publitns. Recent exampl clu the blatant queer-bag of former Disney star Nick Jonas, who would promote his new mic at famo gay clubs and even received an Out Magaze ver.

This posng extends to a recent LA Tim profile (where Bunny nfirmed he was straight and had a girliend, but said “ do not fe me”) and var thk-piec celebratg his “new masculy” or how he “bridg LGBTQ and Latx inti” be obv there is more pal to be gaed om wearg the queer activism of the moment like a stume than actually livg and embodyg Bunny really wanted to dispel homophobia wh reggaeton mic, he would e his large platform to feature the queer and trans artists that are equently silenced and ignored wh the issue wh Bad Bunny receivg praise for his activism is different than criqug his actns. ” When Bad Bunny blurs genr l, ’s amed as “endg” toxic masculy and homophobia. In Ricky Mart's new vio, the sger rips a gag om his mouth and a para of gay and straight upl appear, wh the "equals" symbol pated on their chts, as he sgs about how he n't wipe the se om his Monday, nearly a year after endg years of speculatn about his sexualy by tellg the world he was a "fortunate gay man", the 39-year-old will release his first album as an openly homosexual pop is a big step for Mart, who beme one of the world's biggt sellg artists on a diet of machismo, teenage female fans and songs like She mic dtry is watchg to see whether he n mata his populary.

RICKY MART REVEALS HE IS GAY

"This is an tertg time for homosexualy pop mic.

Lady Gaga, the biggt sellg female pop act of the past few years, followed up months of support for gay rights wh the song Born This Way, which she sgs: "No matter gay, straight, or bi, lbian, transgenred life, I'm on the right track baby. "Last year, she walked the red rpet at MTV awards wh a group of discharged gay soldiers to prott at the US ary's policy of don't ask, don't Perry and Ke$ha have also released songs which purport to show support for gay rights.

LAT SGER RICKY MART SAYS HE IS GAY

Perry shot to fame 2008 wh the song I Kissed a Girl and also had a h wh Ur So Gay, which the word "gay" is ed as a her most recent h, Firework, preach the msage that there is nothg wrong wh beg different, and was acpanied by a vio showg two boys me out an emotnal msage posted on his webse March of last year, which he said: "The word 'happs' tak on a new meang for me as of today. "As attus have changed, pop stars are tendg to e out earlier their reers, cludg Will Young and X Factor wner Joe Mart, Boy Gee famoly flected speculatn about his private life durg Culture Club's heyday, by claimg he would rather have "a nice cup of tea" than John, who had scribed himself as bisexual, only fully me out the early 1980s followg his divorce om wife Renate Blel, while Gee Michael was forced to reveal his sexualy 1998 after beg ught a "lewd act" wh an unrver police officer a Los Angel public famoly turned crisis to opportuny wh the release of Outsi, a sgle which poked fun at his even openly gay pop sgers rarely make reference to genr songs, although a track on the Morrissey album, Rglear of the Tormentors, was njectured to referred to a male Peter Robson, edor of the webse Popjtice, says pop stars still feel prsure to hi their sexualy. "As soon as you're out you bee a 'gay' act, " he said.

Gambacci said: "I know many gay micians who say they still don't want to e out.

RICKY MART IS A PROUD GAY FATHER — MEET HIS FOUR KIDS BORN VIA SURROGATE

Gambacci is equally cynil about the motivatns of artists such as Perry and Ke$ha, scribg the way certa female stars play wh homosexualy as "dippg their toe the water whout gettg their foot wet". Like Mart, Elton John also me out later life and recently beme a father to baby the publicy trail for Mart's album, Mi + Alma + Sexo, h high gear last week, an Amerin supermarket censored an image of Elton and his partner David Furnish holdg their new baby on the ont US Weekly are some parts of the world, seems, where hostili rema, no matter how many rerds a person has those hopg that Mart's new album will offer a ep reflectn of gay life may be disappoted.

NEW YORK — After more than a of dodgg mors and speculatn about his sexual orientatn, Lat sger Ricky Mart has e out of the closet and clared himself a “fortunate homosexual man. “In 2000, I phed Ricky Mart very hard to adm if he was gay or not, and the way he refed to do ma everyone ci that he was, ” she told the Toronto Star. You uld say, as many artists have, ‘Y I am gay, ’ or you uld say, ‘No I’m not, ’ or you uld leave , as you are, ambiguo.

RICKY MART ON THE MOMENT HE DECID TO COME OUT AS GAY: ‘I’VE BEEN SUPER HAPPY EVER SCE’

The sger rpond, “When Ricky Mart, a man whom I admire very much, says whether he’s gay or not, that’s when I will tell you. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Sger Ricky Mart clared publicly that he is gay Mart says, "I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man" His song "Liv' La Vida Lo" rose to top of mic charts 1999 LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Pop sger Ricky Mart clared publicly this week what he avoid discsg for years: He is gay.

"I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man, " Mart wrote on his official Web se. On March 29, 2010, Ricky Mart me out as gay on a post on his webse.

“I am very proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man, ” he wrote. Wh Mart’s announcement, gay artists, who had long kept their sexual inti a secret, fally had a bean of hope. Sce that pot, a growg number of Lat artists have eher e out after years the spotlight, or many have simply started their reers by embracg their gay inti.