Ricky Mart on the moment he cid to e out as gay: ‘I’ve been super happy ever sce’

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• RICKY MART ON G OUT AS GAY: 'I'VE BEEN SUPER HAPPY EVER SCE'
• 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 REFLECTS ON NOT BEG READY TO E OUT AS GAY, HOW 'AMAZG' FELT WHEN HE DID
• 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 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. 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.

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.

RICKY MART REVEALS HE'S GAY

“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.

" "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. "Am I gay?

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

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

"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.

Everyone knows you don't have to be a gay man to know that love is plited. “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.

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.

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

"Y ahí dije: 'Rick', er bien afortunado, un hombre homosexual.

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

Er homosexual", ahondó, para entonc enzar a cribir su tobgrafía, "Yo", y al culmarla, "enloquecer en llanto". 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.