Shawn Mens: 'There Was A Dperatn For Me To Come Out As Beg Gay' - Towleroad Gay News

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• SHAWN MENS EXPLAS WHY IT’S “SO, SO FSTRATG” THAT PEOPLE THK HE’S GAY
• SHAWN MENS REVEALS WHY HE GOT ‘UPSET’ OVER RUMORS HE WAS GAY: ‘IT’S COMPLETELY IGNORANT’
• SHAWN MENS EXPLAS WHY ‘IGNORANT AND SENSIVE’ GAY MOURS UPSET HIM
• SHAWN MENS SAYS RUMORS HE'S GAY DEEPLY AFFECTED AND 'FSTRATED' HIM
• IT'S GIVG GAY? - ON THE DISURSE ABOUT SHAWN MENS' SEXUALY
• 'GAYDAR' OR 'WISHDAR'? THE DANGER OBSSG OVER SHAWN MENS' SEXUALY
• TOP 10 WHY DO PEOPLE THK SHAWN MENS IS GAY BEST AND NEWEST
• SHAWN MENS: ‘THERE WAS A DPERATN FOR ME TO COME OUT AS BEG GAY’
• SHAWN MENS ALREADY TOLD US HE’S NOT GAY — SO WHY IS IT STILL ASKED?
• SHAWN MENS ADDRS THE RUMORS OF BEG GAY; SAYS, ‘IT WAS SO FSTRATG FOR ME BEE…’

SHAWN MENS EXPLAS WHY IT’S “SO, SO FSTRATG” THAT PEOPLE THK HE’S GAY

Why do people thk the sger Shawn Mens is gay? "Everyone's been llg me gay sce I was 15 years old. "Everyone's been llg me gay sce I was 15 years old, " said Mens, 22, rellg how he "didn't grow up wrtlg" but stead "grew up gettg my hair braid on New Year's Eve" wh his female explaed how the speculatn not only ma him start policg his actns and closg himself off emotnally, ma him worry about his iends who were not ready to e out.

"It was so, so tratg for me bee there were some people my life that I was very, very close to who were gay and the closet, " the three-time Grammy nomee explaed. ""I thk a lot of guys go through that and, even worse than that, there are so many guys who are gay and the closet and mt be hearg s--- like that and beg like, 'I'm terrified to e out, '" the "Stch" sger said. You are here: Home / Misc / Shawn Mens Explas Why It’s “So, So Fstratg” That People Thk He’s Gay.

Shawn Mens spoke out about his sexualy and the mors that he is gay. “It was so, so tratg for me bee there were some people my life that I was very, very, close to, who were gay and the closet”.

SHAWN MENS REVEALS WHY HE GOT ‘UPSET’ OVER RUMORS HE WAS GAY: ‘IT’S COMPLETELY IGNORANT’

You want to say, ‘I’m not gay but ’d be fe if I was gay — but also there’s nothg wrong wh beg gay but I’m not. Everyone’s been llg me gay sce I was 15 years old. I’m not gay and I’m like, ‘What do that mean?

SHAWN MENS EXPLAS WHY ‘IGNORANT AND SENSIVE’ GAY MOURS UPSET HIM

“I thk a lot of guys go through that and even worse than that there are jt so many guys who are gay and the closet and mt be hearg s— like that and jt beg like, ‘I’m terrified to e out, ’” he ntued. How many tim do Shawn Mens have to nfirm he’s not gay?

SHAWN MENS SAYS RUMORS HE'S GAY DEEPLY AFFECTED AND 'FSTRATED' HIM

“There was a speratn for me to e out as beg gay, which is such a ridiculo thg, ” Shawn told The Guardian after he was asked about accatns of beg a fake relatnship wh Caa — which sparked om mors about his sexualy. “I got upset bee I know people who are gay who haven’t e out yet and I know the sufferg they experience bee of that, ” Shawn ntued, addg, “It’s jt pletely ignorant and sensive of people to be on that sh-t.

IT'S GIVG GAY? - ON THE DISURSE ABOUT SHAWN MENS' SEXUALY

In a seri of several vio msag, he clared that he was not gay spe the “gay vib” fans had mentned on social media. “I thought, ‘You f-ckg guys are so lucky I’m not actually gay and terrified of g out, '” he told the magaze while speakg about how he was acced of beg “too feme. Who r if I’m gay?

'GAYDAR' OR 'WISHDAR'? THE DANGER OBSSG OVER SHAWN MENS' SEXUALY

Sign up to Rois O’Connor’s ee weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the si track on all thgs micGet our Now Hear This email for eeShawn Mens has said that mours about his sexualy are “ignorant and sensive” Canadian sger-songwrer explaed that he was left upset by claims that he was gay, and that his relatnship wh fellow pop star Caa Cabello was an elaborate publicy stunt. “There was a speratn for me to e out as beg gay, which is such a ridiculo thg, ” Mens told The Guardian.

“I got upset bee I know people who are gay who haven’t e out and I know the sufferg they experience bee of that. The Canadian sensatn sent the ter to overdrive after a sort of cryptic, long took his wrg as him announcg he was gay.

Shawn Mens' cryptic tweet about his tth and honty started speculatns about him g out as gay. People Thought Shawn Mens Was Comg Out as GayYou always risk your words beg misnsted if you're cryptic.

TOP 10 WHY DO PEOPLE THK SHAWN MENS IS GAY BEST AND NEWEST

And they did, but many had the same terpretatn — that Mens was announcg he was after the tweet went live, repli om Twter ers speculatg he was gay flood . " another one put forth their were very certa the Canadian sger was gay.

While Shawn did not mentn anythg about beg gay, many spected that was his g out statement. "So he's sayg he's gay, right?

SHAWN MENS: ‘THERE WAS A DPERATN FOR ME TO COME OUT AS BEG GAY’

"I'm mad as hell I read all that and didn't end wh 'I'm gay/bi'… I gus he stayg that closet wh the glass slidg door a ltle longer, " one person assumed.

LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space. Shawn Mens spoke ndidly on Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podst about how people speculatg he was gay when he was a teen eply affected him and ma him qutn himself.

"It was so, so tratg for me bee there were some people my life that I was very very close to, who were gay and the closet, " Mens said. You want to say, 'I'm not gay but 'd be fe if I was gay—but also there's nothg wrong wh beg gay but I'm not. I need to be really fuckg msy and say the wrong thgs and apologize and say the right thg after I apologize and be nfed about how to rpond when people say I'm gay.

SHAWN MENS ALREADY TOLD US HE’S NOT GAY — SO WHY IS IT STILL ASKED?

Everyone's been llg me gay sce I was 15 years old. I'm not gay and I'm like, 'What do that mean? There are jt so many guys who are gay and the closet and mt be hearg sh like that and jt beg like, 'I'm terrified to e out, '" he is datg Caa Cabello, and he spoke to Shepard too about how his girliend has helped him embrace beg vulnerable as a human tra and not a feme one.

I will take a look to why people thk the sger is gay and whether is okay to make such assumptns. ' Lastly, one er tells everyone to 'chill out' bee is not homophobic to make jok about stereotypilly gay language, everyone is jt too sensive the days. We would most likely go so far as to ll that act homophobic.

The term possibly origated on an episo of Divorce Court where Rollg Ray, who is a disabled gay man, troduced himself wh the phrase "’s givg very much how you dog your honor Ms. Consirg the fact that the phrase is thought to be herently feme and was first said by a gay man, is thought to be a ltle odd for Shawn Mens – who is a cisgenr, straight man – to e unironilly.

SHAWN MENS ADDRS THE RUMORS OF BEG GAY; SAYS, ‘IT WAS SO FSTRATG FOR ME BEE…’

Most men that do e the phrase are queer, gay, or bisexual for example, meang that the phrase belongs to a queer lguistic repertoire. ‘It’s givg’ is part of a lguistic repertoire that is associated wh femy and as happens, an crease femy a man is often seen as an ditn that he is gay (Kranz et al, 2016). Are all the nice guys gay?

Pop stars Shawn Mens and Caa Cabello announced last week that they are endg their two-year relatnship, sendg a meteore crashg through the LGBTQ universe — or at least gay Twter. Hundreds of ers posted mem on social media the past week, many of them jokg about how gay men will be flockg to the heartthrob's home now that he’s sgle. Google search for “Shawn Mens gay” h a three-year peak last week as news of the uple’s spl broke, dwarfg search for Transgenr Awarens Week, which land at the same time.