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Contents:
- SHAWN MENS EXPLAS WHY ‘IGNORANT AND SENSIVE’ GAY MOURS UPSET HIM
- CAA CABELLO: IT WOULD BE “TRAGIC FOR HUMANS” IF ABORTNS AND GAY MARRIAGE WERE BANNED
- SHAWN MENS ADDRS GAY RUMORS & SUGGTN THAT RELATNSHIP WH CAA CABELLO IS A PR STUNT
SHAWN MENS EXPLAS WHY ‘IGNORANT AND SENSIVE’ GAY MOURS UPSET HIM
Caa Cabello has given her view on what the world would be like if abortns and gay marriage were banned. * is camila cabello gay *
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. Her anger, my opn, has nothg to do wh love or relatnships or homosexualy: It's about perpetuatg rctive LGBTQ+ you're a LGBTQ+ person, as I am, chanc are you've been subject to the gross misnceptn that you want to sleep wh lerally everyone. (It's the age-old ncept of a straight guy not wantg to beiend a gay man bee he thks he'll h on him.
We would tell each other s— that yeah maybe you would thk we were gay if you were listeng over but we weren't. "Everyone's been llg me gay sce I was 15 years old.
CAA CABELLO: IT WOULD BE “TRAGIC FOR HUMANS” IF ABORTNS AND GAY MARRIAGE WERE BANNED
"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. Many people monize queer people, worryg their ey will stray locker rooms or that they'll somehow make the people around them “turn” gay. Of urse, no one n make anyone else bee gay, nor are LGBTQ people universally attracted to one genr (jt like straight people aren't tomatilly attracted to people of the oppose genr).
SHAWN MENS ADDRS GAY RUMORS & SUGGTN THAT RELATNSHIP WH CAA CABELLO IS A PR STUNT
That Lren was ma to feel her sexualy is a threat to straight women around her is an unfortunate part of the heteronormative and homophobic culture that still exists today.
Caa Cabello has given her view on what the world would be like if abortns and gay marriage were banned. The pop star is a vol supporter of both women’s rights and gay rights, havg spoken about subjects like #MeToo and the women’s march, and performed wh a Pri flag on stage.