Some details have leaked from Ricky Martin's upcoming autobiography, and Blabbeando's got 'em. Most interesting—considering all the talk about outing's consequences for the famous—to me is that Martin says he always knew he was gay, right from adolescence:
"Since I can remember, I have felt a very strong attraction to other men and, although I can say that I have also come to feel a lot of attraction and a lot of chemistry towards women, it is men who ultimately awaken what is instinctive, the animal in me...Socially, there are so many prejudices against homosexuals that I thought nobody would understand me, that I'd be rejected, since those are the codes I heard and learned as a child. So since my adolescence, when these desires I first began to manifest themselves, I had to deal with this great conflict between my emotions and my thoughts."
He also expresses his disdain for anti-gay slang like faggot, homo, puto (and, one presumes, loca).
Ithink Ricky Martin is quite together and I think that paragraph from his book is exactly what I believe - it is very nicely written. Good for him.
Posted by: Greg | November 01, 2010 at 06:48 AM
Are you going to Borders on Wednesday for his signing?
Posted by: Jason | November 01, 2010 at 01:49 PM
Jason: I can't imagine...it will be pandemonium and probably require a wristband, etc.?
Posted by: Matthew Rettenmund | November 01, 2010 at 04:35 PM
Think the Big M is mentioned in the book?
Posted by: Keith | November 01, 2010 at 08:43 PM