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• RICKY MART REFLECTS ON NOT BEG READY TO E OUT AS GAY, HOW 'AMAZG' FELT WHEN HE DID
• RICKY MART REVEALS HE'S GAY
• RICKY MART ON THE MOMENT HE CID TO E OUT AS GAY: ‘I’VE BEEN SUPER HAPPY EVER SCE’
• RICKY MART OPENS UP ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY
• RICKY MART, 49, SHAR HE WAS ' LOVE' WH THE WOMEN HE DATED BEFORE G OUT AS GAY
• RICKY MART MARRI PARTNER JWAN YOSEF 8 YEARS AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• RICKY MART AND JWAN YOSEF TO DIVORCE AFTER 6 YEARSHE'LL BE LIV' LA VIDA SGLE. BY KASE WICKMANJULY 6, 2023CDY ORD/VF23SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEMICIAN RICKY MART AND ARTIST JWAN YOSEF ANNOUNCED A JOT STATEMENT THAT THEY WILL DIVORCE AFTER SIX YEARS OF MARRIAGE."WE HAVE CID TO END OUR MARRIAGE WH LOVE, RPECT, AND DIGNY FOR OUR CHILDREN AND HONORG WHAT WE HAVE EXPERIENCED AS A UPLE ALL THE WONRFUL YEARS," THEY SAID THE STATEMENT, WHICH THEY POSTED SPANISH AND ENGLISH ON INSTAGRAM.INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE PAIR HAVE TWO YOUNG CHILDREN TOGETHER, LUCIA (BORN 2018, SHARG MART’S CHRISTMAS EVE BIRTHDAY, A SWEET CINCE) AND RENN (BORN 2019), ADDN TO MART’S 14-YEAR-OLD TW BOYS MATTEO AND VALENTO, WHOM HE WELED VIA SURROGATE AND WILL NTUE TO RAISE AS A SGLE PARENT.“​OUR GREATT SIRE NOW IS TO NTUE HAVG A HEALTHY FAY DYNAMIC AND A RELATNSHIP CENTERED ON PEACE AND IENDSHIP TO NTUE THE JOT UPBRGG OF OUR CHILDREN, PRERVG THE RPECT AND LOVE WE HAVE FOR EACH OTHER,” THE STATEMENT NTUED.MART GOT HIS START MENUDO, A SPANISH-LANGUAGE BOY BAND, THE LATE ‘70S. HE EVENTUALLY BRANCHED OUT TO A SUCCSFUL SOLO REER AND ENGLISH-LANGUAGE POP MIC, AS WELL AS ACTG ON-SCREEN AND ONSTAGE, NOTABLY A BROADWAY REVIVAL OF THE MIL EVA. MART ME OUT AS GAY 2010, POSTG A MSAGE ON HIS WEBSE THAT HE WAS “A FORTUNATE HOMOSEXUAL MAN.”IN 2012, MART TOLD VANY FAIR ABOUT HIS CISN TO PUBLICLY E OUT, SAYG THAT “THE PROCS STARTED OUT OF MY NEED TO BE HAPPY. AND TO HAVE SELF-ACCEPTANCE AND SELF-RPECT. LIKE SAYG OUT LOUD: ‘THIS IS ME. IT IS PART OF MY NATURE.’ . . . WHEN I ME OUT SO MANY PEOPLE ME UP TO ME AND SAID, ‘THANK YOU. FOR THE FIRST TIME I WAS ABLE TO GIVE MY SON A HUG, SCE HE ME OUT AND SAID THAT HE WAS GAY.’ I DID FOR ME, BUT ALSO HELPS OTHERS.”MART AND YOSEF ANNOUNCED THEIR ENGAGEMENT 2016 AND MARRIED 2018.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMCAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE ABSOLUTELY WILST DETAILS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S LATT INDICTMENT AGAST DONALD TMPIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI ETON COLLEGE, HARRY AND WILLIAM’S POSH ALMA MATERTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVKASE WICKMAN
• RICKY MART REVEALS HE IS GAY
• RICKY MART ON THE MOMENT HE DECID TO COME OUT AS GAY: ‘I’VE BEEN SUPER HAPPY EVER SCE’
• RICKY MART IS A PROUD GAY FATHER — MEET HIS FOUR KIDS BORN VIA SURROGATE

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

"Am I gay?

RICKY MART REVEALS HE'S 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.

After years of sisteppg qutns about his sexual orientatn, sger Ricky Mart reveals a heartfelt postg onle that he is gay.

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

“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. 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.

RICKY MART OPENS UP ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY

I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man.

" "I got to the place I was fightg as I was wrg my book between sayg, 'Am I gay?

Am I gay?

RICKY MART, 49, SHAR HE WAS ' LOVE' WH THE WOMEN HE DATED BEFORE G OUT AS GAY

And then I said, 'Rick, you are a very fortunate homosexual man. You are gay.

RICKY MART MARRI PARTNER JWAN YOSEF 8 YEARS AFTER G OUT AS GAY

The sger vised The Daily Show Wh Trevor Noah and opened up about his own personal stggl wh g out as gay. ' It was people that love me, people that mean well and people that were jt victims of homophobia. Ricky Mart sists he 'wasn't misleadg anyone' when he dated 49-year-old pop star romanced 'lots of women' before he me out as gay 2010, but he has bbished the suggtn he was beg dishont wh his girliends.

The 49-year-old pop star dated 'lots of women' before he me out as gay 2010, but he has bbished the suggtn he was beg dishont wh his girliends'You n't fake chemistry - the chemistry was there wh them.

Mart me out as gay 2010, postg a msage on his webse that he was “a fortunate homosexual man. For the first time I was able to give my son a hug, sce he me out and said that he was gay.

RICKY MART AND JWAN YOSEF TO DIVORCE AFTER 6 YEARSHE'LL BE LIV' LA VIDA SGLE. BY KASE WICKMANJULY 6, 2023CDY ORD/VF23SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEMICIAN RICKY MART AND ARTIST JWAN YOSEF ANNOUNCED A JOT STATEMENT THAT THEY WILL DIVORCE AFTER SIX YEARS OF MARRIAGE."WE HAVE CID TO END OUR MARRIAGE WH LOVE, RPECT, AND DIGNY FOR OUR CHILDREN AND HONORG WHAT WE HAVE EXPERIENCED AS A UPLE ALL THE WONRFUL YEARS," THEY SAID THE STATEMENT, WHICH THEY POSTED SPANISH AND ENGLISH ON INSTAGRAM.INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE PAIR HAVE TWO YOUNG CHILDREN TOGETHER, LUCIA (BORN 2018, SHARG MART’S CHRISTMAS EVE BIRTHDAY, A SWEET CINCE) AND RENN (BORN 2019), ADDN TO MART’S 14-YEAR-OLD TW BOYS MATTEO AND VALENTO, WHOM HE WELED VIA SURROGATE AND WILL NTUE TO RAISE AS A SGLE PARENT.“​OUR GREATT SIRE NOW IS TO NTUE HAVG A HEALTHY FAY DYNAMIC AND A RELATNSHIP CENTERED ON PEACE AND IENDSHIP TO NTUE THE JOT UPBRGG OF OUR CHILDREN, PRERVG THE RPECT AND LOVE WE HAVE FOR EACH OTHER,” THE STATEMENT NTUED.MART GOT HIS START MENUDO, A SPANISH-LANGUAGE BOY BAND, THE LATE ‘70S. HE EVENTUALLY BRANCHED OUT TO A SUCCSFUL SOLO REER AND ENGLISH-LANGUAGE POP MIC, AS WELL AS ACTG ON-SCREEN AND ONSTAGE, NOTABLY A BROADWAY REVIVAL OF THE MIL EVA. MART ME OUT AS GAY 2010, POSTG A MSAGE ON HIS WEBSE THAT HE WAS “A FORTUNATE HOMOSEXUAL MAN.”IN 2012, MART TOLD VANY FAIR ABOUT HIS CISN TO PUBLICLY E OUT, SAYG THAT “THE PROCS STARTED OUT OF MY NEED TO BE HAPPY. AND TO HAVE SELF-ACCEPTANCE AND SELF-RPECT. LIKE SAYG OUT LOUD: ‘THIS IS ME. IT IS PART OF MY NATURE.’ . . . WHEN I ME OUT SO MANY PEOPLE ME UP TO ME AND SAID, ‘THANK YOU. FOR THE FIRST TIME I WAS ABLE TO GIVE MY SON A HUG, SCE HE ME OUT AND SAID THAT HE WAS GAY.’ I DID FOR ME, BUT ALSO HELPS OTHERS.”MART AND YOSEF ANNOUNCED THEIR ENGAGEMENT 2016 AND MARRIED 2018.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMCAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE ABSOLUTELY WILST DETAILS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S LATT INDICTMENT AGAST DONALD TMPIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI ETON COLLEGE, HARRY AND WILLIAM’S POSH ALMA MATERTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVKASE WICKMAN

Fue entonc que cidió "poner todo en orn" en su vida y se tomó un año sabáti, pero n así no taba listo para admir su homosexualidad ente al públi nque ya lo había hecho lante las personas más cernas.

Al termar su reflexión pirual, tuvo que cidir si era homosexual o bisexual y no mentirse así mismo. "Y ahí dije: 'Rick', er bien afortunado, un hombre homosexual. Er homosexual", ahondó, para entonc enzar a cribir su tobgrafía, "Yo", y al culmarla, "enloquecer en llanto".

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.

RICKY MART REVEALS HE IS GAY

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. Everyone knows you don't have to be a gay man to know that love is plited. Ricky Mart is openg up about his cisn to e out as gay.

” “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 IS A PROUD GAY FATHER — MEET HIS FOUR KIDS BORN VIA SURROGATE

Ricky Mart, who me out as gay 2010, is a proud father to his four children — tw boys Matteo and Valento, dghter Lucia, and son most celebri, Ricky Mart also lov to share updat about his life on social media. | Source: Getty ImagMart had not yet e out as gay when Matteo and Valento were born via a surrogate Augt 2008.

The "Kg of Lat Pop" revealed his sexual orientatn 2010, postg onle that he was "proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. A before he cid to e out as gay, sger Ricky Mart was put on the spot by journalist Barbara Walters a 2000 televisn terview which she told him he uld “stop the mors” about his sexualy wh a simple y or no. ”The “Liv’ la Vida Lo” sger eventually me out March 2010, announcg an open letter on his webse that he was “proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man.

“Jt say y, y, I’m gay, who r? Ricky Mart me out on his webse sger, whose sexualy was the source of much speculatn his "Vida Lo" heyday, posted a long statement that end wh, "I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man.