Shawn Mens on How Fans Callg Him Gay Deeply Affected Him

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Shawn Mens, who has prevly nied beg gay, reveals he has been hearg mors about his s*xualy sce the age of 15. Read on

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

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"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.

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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.

WHAT DID SHAWN MENS SAY ABOUT GAYS?

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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.

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

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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.

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

“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.

SHAWN MENS ON GETTG TO PLAY ROLE OF GAY TEEN ‘LOVE, SIMON’

”“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.

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

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.

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

“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. ”‘Gaydar’ vs.

“Sometim ’s hard for gay men to separate their ‘gaydar’ om their ‘wishdar, ’” Savage said.

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