your point is well taken, and I wish I could come up with more than these few…but After Elton John came out these are some of his susequent releases….

In 1980 he was back with the release of 21 at 33, which featured the Top 10 single “Little Jeannie”. In ’81 he had a hit with the song “Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)”, his tribute to Lennon. The album it was on, Jump Up, went gold. Elton would catch fire one more time with the release of 1983′s To Low For Zero which included the MTV hit “I’m Still Standing” and Top Ten single “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues”.

Additionally, the Pet Shop Boys had a few hits as did Erasure and Bronski Beat after they were out (Was the guy from Bronski Beat ever In?) But a few exceptions don’t change the fact that you are pretty much right on the money.

Typical B.S. with all the gay rumors swirling around, if Ricky Martin had EVER been on a date with a woman they would have been sending pictures of the two of them together to every magazine in the world. When the rumors really started a few years ago some woman came out of the woodwork, put up in interviews by his press team claiming that they had previously dated and that he was so hot in bed. Then his press team backed off when some of the magazines asked why somebody like Ricky Martin, who had been famous since around the age of about 13, and who was claiming to ahve dated this woman for several years…had no pictures of them together. Needless to say that woman gave no more interviews and his publicist kind of gave up fighting the rumors.

How much more proof do you need that liberals suck?

You make a fascinating point about whether any male pop singer has recovered his career after coming out.

The fact is that, in America, there is a bias against male homosexuality and male bisexuality. I say “male” because this bias does not exist against the female as much as it does against the male.

It’s a form of pro-female, anti-male political correctness. The people who are responsible for this correctness are liberals. Liberal organizations have always glamorized female bisexuality at the expense of male bisexuality.

From Playboy to MTV to Rolling Stone magazine to the porn industry, female bisexuality is considered “hot” and is incorporated into the mainstream. Male bisexuality, on the other hand, gets the silent treatment at best.

We shouldn’t be rushing a guy to reveal what is clearly a very personal matter for him and his career, unless he’s Republican and has a history of stabbing Queer people in the back from the closet.

http://new.e1.music.yahoo.com/.....-divorcio/

If Ricky Martin comes out, there’s no way anyone could overstate the backlash that would follow. Until he’s completely certain that he will be received with open arms, he should probably keep his personal life on the DL.

That being said, my dad’s met him a few times through work and yeah, it’s not a matter of “is he?” with him.

Mike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QhZPT9dqm4

You hairdo has done all your coming out for you.

xox

That being said, a person’s ‘out’-ness and fame don’t always coincide. It’s up to each individual to decide if the drawbacks to being out will outweigh the advantages. Some of them choose to take the risk of being open about their sexuality at the height of their fame and then bewail the fact that their out-ness ruined their shot at superstardom, like Rupert. Others wait until their fame is clearly waning, and outing one’s self seems to be the only way to generate any media attention, like… well, there’s a big enough list, take your pick.

Oh give me a break. As long as there are people that want to sleep with their own sex, and people that want to sleep with the opposit sex those terms are not useless. Additionally, as long as people are using our sexuality as a way to descriminate against us we sure as hell better be defending our rights rather than quibbling about the “Evils of labeling”

Smoking hot. Agreed.

Could this ambiguous statement be as step toward his way out?

At least I haven’t seen any stories of him dating women as used to be the case.

So, it’s not exactly saying it could have a male or female owner, but rather an outright refusal to address the question. In fact, by saying “dueño o dueña”, adding dueña as a qualifying statement or afterthought to the initial phrase “(male) owner” may have been his way of saying that his heart does not have a male owner.

He’s an Anderson Cooper when it comes to these things. And if he hasn’t said it by now, the likelihood is that he won’t ever declare his sexual identity.

Personally, I find it distressing. While it is true that we in the GLBT community have needed to fight for our rights under the “gay rights” banner, the simple truth is that sexuality is not as polarized as the activists would have you believe. Most men are located on a continuum between exclusively gay and exclusively straight.

It’s these men that need looking after as they don’t really have much support.