Rickey Martin! A punny thing happens when i talk about people from my tween years

Rickey Martin came out of the closet today.
















I know right? Who’d have guessed?!
I knew when I was twelve that he was even more boy crazy than I was (am), the first time I saw him but I digress.

He said in his statement how people had advised him not to comment on his sexuality during the height of his career (circa late 1990s early turn of the century) because it would counteract all of the hard work he had done to get to that point. Hey it’s not easy shaking your bon bon!

Basically the people in charge of his career put him in a glass closet, potentially denying him a chance at happiness, because the public might not buy his music if they knew that he was livin’ la vida homo.

I like to pretend that 40 plus years after Martin Luther King Jr died in pursuit of a world where people would be judged for the content of their character and not what they were born like and in a country that has just elected its first black president, we have moved past such stupid thoughts. The unfortunate truth is that Martin’s entourage was right to be cautious and it’s still going on ten years later.

Gay rights advocates will say that this is a big step for America because a huge star has come out and more will surely follow, but let’s be honest; Rickey is about as relevant as someone on “Dancing with the Stars” these days. This might even be a move to make him reenter pop culture since he also happened to mention an upcoming memoir (sounds a lot like a certain Lance Bass I know.)

So is this a step toward a more tolerant America with liberty and justice for all? Probably not.

Is Rickey kind of being gay for pay in hopes of making a buck on his former fame? Yeah but that is what America really is about, money!

Either way I wish Rickey nothing but happiness and an overflow of men in his cup of life (olay olay olay!)