If someone asked me today, "Ricky, what are you afraid of?" I would answer "the blood that runs through the streets of countries at war...child slavery, terrorism... the cynicism of some people in positions of power, the misinterpretation of faith." But fear of my truth? Not at all! On the contrary, It fills me with strength and courage. This is just what I need especially now that I am the father of two beautiful boys that are so full of light and who with their outlook teach me new things every day. To keep living as I did up until today would be to indirectly diminish the glow that my kids where born with. Enough is enough. This has to change.
Monday, March 29, 2010
SEAN HAYES, YOU'VE GOT COMPETITION: In what likely gets ranked as the second-least-surprising Yep, I'm Gay of 2010, once-biggest-singer-in-the-world Ricky Martin wants y'all to know that he is "proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am." Poignantly, he writes:
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Didn't Clay Aiken write this a couple years ago?
ReplyDelete@TaraAriano: "<span>Tough night for Anderson Cooper, knowing he's a bigger chickenshit than Ricky Martin."</span>
ReplyDeleteIs there an obligation, though, to say you're gay? If Anderson Cooper just lives as he is and we all see him with his boyfriend, does he have to say it?
ReplyDeleteThe difference between Hayes and Cooper (and NPH) on the one hand and Aiken and Martin on the other is that the former said nothing and the latter angrily denied being gay. I am 100% supportive of "none of your goddamn business" but do not like being lied to, especially where the lie panders to ignorance and hostility.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, I would rate Hayes and Martin as exactly the same amount of surprising, which is to say absolutle-zero amount of surprising.
ReplyDeleteAnderson Cooper spent two New Year's with Kathy Griffin- if that's not coming out, I don't know what is.
ReplyDeleteUntil I clicked on the link, I just assumed the most unsurprising coming-out of the year was Adam Lambert.
ReplyDeleteI think as long as there are teens getting picked on, bullied and driven to depression and suicide for being gay, potential role models who are gay have an obligation to come out.
ReplyDeleteNobody has an obligation to be a role model or a standard-bearer. We don't own anybody else's private life.
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