Ricky Mart on the moment he cid to e 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. "Am I gay? In 2000, when he was 29, he was asked by Barbara Walters on natnal televisn if he was gay.

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

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

RICKY MART REVEALS HE'S 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.

“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?