Shawn Mens on How Fans Callg Him Gay Deeply Affected Him

Contents:

•  IS SHAWN MENS GAY? DEBATE ON SGER'S SEXUALY MAY STOP AS HE'S SEEMGLY DATG JOCELYN MIRANDA
• SHAWN MENS REVEALS WHY HE GOT ‘UPSET’ OVER RUMORS HE WAS GAY: ‘IT’S COMPLETELY IGNORANT’
• 'GAYDAR' OR 'WISHDAR'? THE DANGER OBSSG OVER SHAWN MENS' SEXUALY
• WHEN SHAWN MENS REVEALED GETTG FSTRATED FOR BEG CALLED GAY SCE HE WAS 15, “I REALLY SUFFERED WH THAT SH*T”
• SHAWN MENS FEELS NEED TO 'PROVE' HE'S NOT GAY
• IF SHAWN MENS SAYS HE’S NOT GAY, HE’S NOT – ’S HARMFUL SPECULATG ON
• SHAWN MENS SAYS RUMORS HE'S GAY DEEPLY AFFECTED AND 'FSTRATED' HIM
• WHAT DID SHAWN MENS SAY ABOUT GAYS?
• SHAWN MENS: ‘THERE WAS A DPERATN FOR ME TO COME OUT AS BEG GAY’
• SHAWN MENS EXPLAS WHY ‘IGNORANT AND SENSIVE’ GAY MOURS UPSET HIM

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

"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.

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

"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.

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

The sger admted he feels the need to "prove to people that I'm not gay. "November 26, 2018, 3:29 PMShawn Mens is spillg all the tea his new ver story for Rollg, famo for h songs cludg "In My Blood" and "Stch, " addrsed the mors about his sexualy that have swirled for years, even though he's nied that he's gay and has told fans that shouldn't matter even if he was.

"“In the back of my heart, I feel like I need to be seen wh someone -- like a girl -- public, to prove to people that I’m not gay, " he said.

WHEN SHAWN MENS REVEALED GETTG FSTRATED FOR BEG CALLED GAY SCE HE WAS 15, “I REALLY SUFFERED WH THAT SH*T”

However, even while they were datg, several mors about the possibily of Mens beg gay had bee a sensatn onle, so much so that started affectg Mens' mental health.

Is Shawn Mens gay?

His breakup wh Caa 2021 led to an onle meme ft wh Google search for “Shawn Mens gay” htg a three-year peak November 2021. Rumors about Mens' sexualy had started around 2014 wh izens takg to his YouTube channel to exprs how they felt he had a 'gay vibe'.

SHAWN MENS FEELS NEED TO 'PROVE' HE'S NOT GAY

For a while, the sger left the ments unaddrsed, but as they started floodg wh more people discsg his sexualy, he posted a Snapchat story sayg, “It shouldn’t make a difference if I was or I wasn’t (gay). 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.

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

Later, an terview wh Dax Shepard on his podst 'Armchair Expert, ' Mens revealed that people have been llg him gay sce he was 15. Who were gay and the closet, " Mens told Shepard the December 2020 podst.

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

In the same podst, he ed the platform to clarify that he is not gay, and is difficult for him to unrstand how he uld react to people makg such ments. "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.

Now that he is seemgly a straight relatnship, one n expect the mors to subsi; however, given what Mens faced the past, he might have to make a special assertn to stop people om assumg him to be gay. How many tim do Shawn Mens have to nfirm he’s not gay? “There was a speratn for me to e out as beg gay, which is such a ridiculo thg, ” Shawn told The Guardian after he was asked about accatns of beg a fake relatnship wh Caa — which sparked om mors about his sexualy.

WHAT DID SHAWN MENS SAY ABOUT GAYS?

“I got upset bee I know people who are gay who haven’t e out yet and I know the sufferg they experience bee of that, ” Shawn ntued, addg, “It’s jt pletely ignorant and sensive of people to be on that sh-t. In a seri of several vio msag, he clared that he was not gay spe the “gay vib” fans had mentned on social media. “I thought, ‘You f-ckg guys are so lucky I’m not actually gay and terrified of g out, '” he told the magaze while speakg about how he was acced of beg “too feme.

Who r if I’m gay? 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. 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?

SHAWN MENS: ‘THERE WAS A DPERATN FOR ME TO COME OUT AS BEG GAY’

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. ”“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.

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

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.