OK, he isn't "officially out" as gay, but he might as well Wikipedia, "He has stated that "clarg 'I'm gay' leads nowhere" and "If we ntue wh the distctns, homosexualy will ...
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GAY SGG SENSATN MAHMOOD WS THE SAN REMO FTIVAL WH "BRIVIDI", WILL REPRENT ITALY AT EUROVISN.
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“So the ia of beg gay and beg all of those thgs that Eurovisn is so proud of beg wasn’t acceptable for me, was jt this thg that was nstantly prayed over. ‘We pray that Sheldon will be a real man; we pray that Sheldon won’t be gay, will be straight, will have a wife, will have kids. Although, both his songs and his public persona, he owns a vulnerabily that ntrasts radilly wh the tradnal stereotyp of Italian virily, he tak great re to avoid tablished labels and classifitns of sexual inty, potg out that the simple fact of askg him about his sexualy is discrimatory and homophobic.