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Mar. 30 2010 - 4:37 pm | 261 views | 0 recommendations | 5 comments

Ricky Martin Gets Career Boost By Coming Out As Gay

This is a crazy twist of events. `90’s has been singer, Ricky Martin has officially come out of the closet. Strange on the timing: he has a new memoir coming out. Yes, just when it looked like Ricky Martin’s career might have been limited to C-list celebrity purgatory on shows like Dancing with the Stars, the pop singer (and former member of boy band, Menudo) has confessed that’s he’s been gay all these years.

The man who brought the world the 1999 hit, Livin La Vida Loca, has declared on his fan site: “I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.”

Yes, and it only took 11 years for him to come out and say during a time  when his career is deader than Corey Haim and you have a new book coming out. Ricky Martin joins the ranks of Clay Aiken and Lance Bass as the guy everyone knew was gay and who has finally admitted it. Yes, Ricky Martin is proud to be gay–especially when there’s money to be made from book sales.


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    So…was the first draft of the song called “She Bangs (but I wouldn’t touch her)”?

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