# This just in! Gay man is gay! \[Ricky Martin comes out\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 29, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258 "2010-03-29T21:52:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/1 "2010-03-29T21:52:34Z")
Ricky Martin has decided to tell everyone what they already knew. [Story](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100329/ap_en_ot/us_people_ricky_martin). My friend came over to me at work and said, “You’re not going to believe this,” then proceeded to tell me something that I did, in fact, believe. That is all. A little MPSIMS in Cafe Society, folks. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/2 "2010-03-29T22:15:08Z")
Ricky is clearly starting his April Fool’s day Foolin’ a couple of days early. There’s no way he’s gay; the way the decorator who travels with him fixes up his dressing room it’d do John Wayne proud, and I know for a fact he only uses rough rocks in his hot stone massages. Plus he’s said he isn’t gay. Repeatedly. So… Do ya think it’s even possible? Nahhh. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/3 "2010-03-29T22:18:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Martin, 38, said he decided to reveal the truth after working on his memoirs helped him realize that he had to be free with himself, and not keep any more secrets. I just assumed he’s asexual, like Anderson Cooper who is clearly asexual if you’ve read his memoir. (Anderson says he doesn’t discuss his private life due to journalistic integrity, except in bestselling memoirs of course.) > [@](#): > > "From the moment I wrote the first phrase I was sure the book was the tool that was going to help me free myself from things I was carrying within me for a long time. Things that were too heavy for me to keep inside. So a heavy tool went deep inside him and set him free. Nothing gay about that. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/4 "2010-03-29T22:58:15Z")
Story here: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100329/ap\_on\_en\_mu/us\_people\_ricky\_martin\_16](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100329/ap_on_en_mu/us_people_ricky_martin_16) Maybe he and Lance Bass will start something, eh? Eh? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/5 "2010-03-29T22:58:54Z")
Wow. Who knew? Everyone. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/6 "2010-03-29T23:02:15Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Wow. Who knew? > > Everyone. 🙂 [You’re right](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=557732) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/7 "2010-03-29T23:03:31Z")
Arrgggh…I searched for “Ricky” and “Martin” in thread titles in CS but didn’t get any results. Fail ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/8 "2010-03-29T23:04:31Z")
I haven’t been this shocked since I heard about Liberace. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/9 "2010-03-29T23:22:28Z")
Does anyone still give a damn? How long has it been since he’s had a hit, fifteen years? ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/10 "2010-03-29T23:35:36Z")
Have the media inundated J-Lo for a comment yet? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/11 "2010-03-29T23:40:24Z")
> [@photopat](#): > > Have the media inundated J-Lo for a comment yet? No, but Ricky is said to be engaged to Liza Minnelli. There are a couple of threads on this: any chance some hunky and or beautiful mod could merge them? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/12 "2010-03-29T23:46:06Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > \ > There are a couple of threads on this: any chance some hunky and or beautiful mod could merge them? Must…not…go…for obvious joke… ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/13 "2010-03-29T23:51:50Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Must…not…go…for obvious joke… [Cleavon Little]Oh you must… you must[/Cleavon Little] I’m somehow guessing “Closeted Celebrities: What Finally Makes them come out of the closet when everybody has long since figured it out?” will **not** be the topic tonight on Anderson Cooper (especially if Tiger Woods and Sandra Bullock have started dating and or been attacked by whales). ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/14 "2010-03-30T00:01:21Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I’m somehow guessing “Closeted Celebrities: What Finally Makes them come out of the closet when everybody has long since figured it out?” will **not** be the topic tonight on Anderson Cooper (especially if Tiger Woods and Sandra Bullock have started dating and or been attacked by whales). I don’t understand why people say “everybody knows” that Anderson Cooper is gay. I have no clue if he is or not, nor do I know if any other reporter might be gay. Are there really people who follow the dating lives of news anchors? Are these people followed around by paparazzi? Are there entire gossip rags dedicated to the love lives of CNN reporters? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/15 "2010-03-30T00:01:48Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Must…not…go…for obvious joke… I reported my own post about an hour ago but I guess a mod hasn’t been on yet 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/16 "2010-03-30T00:32:51Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Story here: > [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100329/ap\_on\_en\_mu/us\_people\_ricky\_martin\_16](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100329/ap_on_en_mu/us_people_ricky_martin_16) > > Maybe he and Lance Bass will start something, eh? Eh? 🙂 I think Martin could do a LOT better than Lance Bass. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/17 "2010-03-30T00:55:10Z")
> [@thirdname](#): > > I don’t understand why people say “everybody knows” that Anderson Cooper is gay. I have no clue if he is or not, nor do I know if any other reporter might be gay. Are there really people who follow the dating lives of news anchors? Are these people followed around by paparazzi? Are there entire gossip rags dedicated to the love lives of CNN reporters? I suspect what happens with people who have persistent gay rumours about them is that they are persistently gay. Maybe they date someone of the same sex, maybe they are seen holding hands or something, and everyone around them knows they’re gay, but they’ve never confirmed it publicly, and no one has really outed them, so they’re in the “everybody knows” category. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/18 "2010-03-30T02:27:59Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > No, but Ricky is said to be engaged to Liza Minnelli. [mango] Oh what the _frick_!!??! Liza Minnelli is a sexual magnet for straight men! [Mango]😛 ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/19 "2010-03-30T03:19:39Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > Does anyone still give a damn? How long has it been since he’s had a hit, fifteen years? HMPPH… :rolleyes: In ENGLISH, in the US, then yes, of course, he hasn’t had a hit in years. But Ricky Martin got his start over two decades ago in Latin America, singing in SPANISH, and he is still well recognized and famous. He has sung in various concerts with different artists, and his most recent (non-compilation of hits) was in 2006, an MTV Unplugged CD. Awesome, strong album. His also involved in humanitarian causes, and is a goodwill ambassador to UNICEF. Now, everybody else knew it, duh. It’s not a surprise. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258/20 "2010-03-30T03:44:34Z")
I thought he already came out when he adopted those babies? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-gay-man-is-gay-ricky-martin-comes-out/534258.md?page=2)