'Gaydar' or 'wishdar'? The danger obssg over Shawn Mens' sexualy

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

Shawn Mens addrs gay mors (aga) and explas a new terview why the false accatns upset him. * shawn mendes gay fakes *

"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.

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.

IF SHAWN MENS SAYS HE’S NOT GAY, HE’S NOT – ’S HARMFUL SPECULATG ON

All Twter need was a vio clip of Shawn Mens sayg "It's givg Cher," to start a new storm of tweets bullyg and llg Mens gay. * shawn mendes gay fakes *

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.

“The gays rejoice, ” a er wrote on others said the mors and the jok were “gross.

”“are some of the shawn mens gay jok funny? Do they also remd me of that unspeakably awful, gut-punch feelg i’d get when i was closeted and someone TOLD me i was gay bee i let the mask slip and acted feme for one whole send? Also y, ” gay social media fluencer Matt Bernste wrote on Twter, garnerg over 6, 000 has not addrsed the latt hearsay and did not reply to a requt for ment.

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”“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. Gayle Kg and Oprah Wey attend The Rob Hood Foundatn's 2016 Benef at Jab Javz Center on May 9, 2016 New York Cy. Kev Mazur / Getty Imag fileFor years, the close iendship between Wey and CBS host Gayle Kg sparked mors that the two were a uple.

” But while speculatn about sexualy among gay iends has existed as long as gay people have, when the speculatn mov to a public fom, n be damagg, some experts say. Jack Drcher, a clil profsor of psychiatry at Columbia Universy and the thor of “Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man, ” said such speculatn n be particularly damagg if the subject is actually gay and is not ready to e out on their own terms. “If actually is te that they might be gay and people are speculatg about , you’re gog to sort of make them feel threatened and endangered, ” Drcher said, strsg that he was speakg hypothetilly and not about a specific public figure.

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

”‘Gaydar’ vs. “Sometim ’s hard for gay men to separate their ‘gaydar’ om their ‘wishdar, ’” Savage said. “There’s not a lot of speculatn the gay muny that Louis C.

Mt be gay.

As for the speculatn surroundg Mens, Rogers said: “My first qutn would be, ‘What has he done that is anti-gay? ”Anti-gay lawmakers asi, Savage said he empathiz wh LGBTQ people who are angered by public figur who are, fact, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer and are not out. ‘Watch Shawn Mens e out as gay an hour, ’ one theorised on Twter.

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

‘Absolutely nvced my heart of hearts that Shawn Mens is gay, ’ wrote another. While a third bluntly stated: ‘I knew Shawn Mens was gay.

In 2016, he felt the need to expla that he wasn’t gay while emphasisg that ‘shouldn’t make a difference if I was or if I wasn’t’.

The first time I ever heard the word ‘gay’ was when a kid – who I didn’t know or hadn’t ever spoken to – the year above me primary school randomly me up to me and said: ‘You know you’re gay, right?

 IS SHAWN MENS GAY? DEBATE ON SGER'S SEXUALY MAY STOP AS HE'S SEEMGLY DATG JOCELYN MIRANDA

Thgs lated when I started at a Catholic high school and ught the attentn of bulli, who took one look at my all-female group of iends and heard my high-pched voice, so started llg me gay. A iend’s brother would adamantly say I was gay whenever I went over to her hoe.

While all of this was happeng on the school yard, ’d be rerced the classroom that homosexualy is a s and I’d go to hell if I ‘chose that liftyle’. Unfortunately, whenever I was asked if I was gay growg up, I always nied bee I felt so much shame about at the time.

I hontly believe I was phed further to the closet each time someone told me they thought I was gay. I wasn’t brave enough to e out durg high school, optg stead to dnkenly break down to my girliend the back of a taxi after a night out to my first ever gay club when I was 18, which was an credibly emotnal moment for the both of . But I’ll never fet beg told I was gay by other people before I even realised – or properly knew what the word meant – myself.

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

In 2016, Shawn was watchg YouTube vios of his prev terviews and read ments om people sayg he giv them a ‘gay vibe’. He explaed: ‘First of all, I’m not gay.

In 2018, he told Rollg Stone that he felt like he need to ‘go be seen wh someone – like a girl – public’ to prove to people that he wasn’t gay. What matters is that Shawn’s said he’s not gay so that should be the end of . When you assume someone is gay bee you perceive certa mannerisms or actns as feme, you’re upholdg age-old stereotyp that force people to tightly-wound box.

WHAT DID SHAWN MENS SAY ABOUT GAYS?

But seeg thgs like gay men on social media slidg to his DMs post-breakup to offer a shoulr to cry on unr the guise of gettg his pants, that’s jt gross. MORE: No, you didn’t know Phillip Schofield was gay, only he did. Y, I'm gay and I'm proud.

"Soon, the hashtag #ShawnComgOut started trendg, but eagle-eyed fans quickly realized the Twter acunt was an imposter, and they were not already addrsed the mors last year a Snapchat vio, sldg people for treatg the suatn as though would be an sult to be gay.

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"Now I'm not trated bee people were sayg that I was gay at all.

"I'm trated bee this day and age people have the dacy to wre onle that I'm gay as if were a bad thg.

IS SHAWN MENS GAY? DISURSE ON SGER'S SEXUALY MAY STOP AS HE'S SEEMGLY DATG JOCELYN MIRANDA

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