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Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin came out by stating on his website in March 2010. “I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man,” he stated. “I am very blessed to be who I am.”
It was a big shock to his female fans. However, that wasn’t the case with his girlfriend, Mexican TV host Rebecca de Alba, with whom he spent nine years. While talking to Vulture, Ricky Martin didn’t mention the name of his girlfriend, but he said: “And I had this woman who was amazing. Unfortunately, we don’t talk anymore, but she was amazing, and she was powerful and she knew about me. She knew I was gay, but we were together.”
Martin shared that after the relationship ended, he concentrated on work, but he said that he was bisexual at one point in his life.
As stated by Attitude, Martin met Swedish artist Jwan Yosef in 2016 through Instagram, and they got married in 2017.
Little Richard
Little Richard was the most controversial celebrity when it comes to the subject of sexuality. At one point in his life, he said that he was “omnisexual” to later stating that the homosexuals are “sick.”
As stated by The Advocate, in 2017 he said that every other relationship that is not between a man and a woman is “unnatural affection.”
He declared that he was gay in 1995, stating that he was gay his “whole life.” In 2012 while talking with GQ about the women in his life, Lee Angel and Ernestine Campbell, he said that they both baffled his homosexuality. Both Lee and Ernestine denied Richard’s claims.
Alan Cumming
Scottish actor Alan Cumming talked about his sexuality in a 2003 interview with The Guardian, saying that he was near to marrying a second woman. “That would have been disastrous,” he said, continuing about how his first wife was bisexual. He declared bisexual but stated that he prefers men a little bit more than women.
He is currently married to a graphic artist Grant Shaffer.
In 2013, Cumming shared with Instinct Magazine, “I still define myself as a bisexual even though I have chosen to be with Grant.” He continued, “I’m sexually attracted to the female form even though I am with a man and I just feel that bisexuals have a bad rap.”
Freddie Mercury
The legendary Queen frontman was always very quiet about his personal life. He revealed he has AIDS to the public the day before he died from it. That was also the case about his sexuality.
It was known that he was in a relationship with Mary Austin for six years, but by the time that ended, he came out as bisexual. Even after he went into a relationship with a man later, some people claim that Austin was the love of his life, which was proven by the fact that she cared for him until he died in 1991.
Lance Bass
Former NSYNC member, Lance Bass, shared with E! News in 2007 that he was married to a woman “for, like, five minutes.” He did it in Vegas with a friend, and she said, “the only reason we did it is because we wanted to get free drinks all night.”
Bass tied the know again in 2014 with Michael Turchin and this was “the first-ever same-sex couple to be married on an American television network,” as it was aired on E!.
Elgin Charles
Celebrity hairstylist and reality TV star Elgin Charles ended his marriage of seven years in 2003. He remained friends with his ex-wife Jackée Harry, and they even started to live together again from 2015.
In his 2018 memoir, By the Way, he revealed he was bisexual. While on The Wendy Williams Show in 2011, when the host asked him if he had a partner in his life, he said: “I’ve had many of them. I’m 50 years old, so I’ve done it all!”
Cary Grant
Cary Grant was rumored to be gay almost during his whole career.
Rumors went off about Grant’s relationship with costume designer Orry-Kelly and actor Randolph Scott. Grant lived with both men and woman during his life, especially with Scott after he divorced his wife Virginia Cherril in 1935.
Grant was never openly gay, and he supposedly tried to stop Kelly from publishing a memoir he wrote about their relationship. Cary Grant died while being married to his wife number 5, Barbara Harris.
Clive Davis
Music mogul Clive Davis wrote in his 2013 memoir, The Soundtrack of My Life, the moment he realized his sexuality.
During his second marriage to Janet Adelberg, he had a drunk sexual night with a man. “Was I nervous? Absolutely. Did the heavens open up? No. But it was satisfying.” Following that, he got a divorce and continued exploring his sexuality.
Davis had two relationships with two different men since 1990. In 2014, Rosanna Krekel’s ex-husband claimed he had an affair with Davis, but Davis never confirmed this.
Bryan Lourd
Bryan Lourd is a Hollywood agent who was famous for his relationship with late actress Carrie Fisher at the beginning of 90’s. As stated by the Daily Mail, after the birth of his daughter, Billie Lourd, Byran left Carrie for another man.
In Carrie’s comedic 2009 memoir, Wishful she said, “He told me later that I had turned him gay … by taking codeine again. And I said, ‘You know, I never read that warning on the label.’ I thought it said ‘heavy machinery,’ not homosexuality — turns out I could have been driving those tractors all along!”
Even though she remained friends with Bryan, and took a comedic turn on the situation, she revealed that the news hurt her at the time. “He should have told me, but he wanted a child and so did I, and he thought he’d be able to change,” she shared with the Daily Mail. “He lied out of fear, he wanted to be heterosexual.”
Bryan married Bruce Bozzi in October 2016.
Bryan married restaurateur Bruce Bozzi (above right), in October 2016.
Elton John
Elton John bisexuality in a Rolling Stone interview in 1976 was seen as a groundbreaking moment for LGBTQ community, even though Elton said that his sexuality wasn’t that much of a secret. He revealed in Today in 2012, that at the time the Rolling Stones interview took place, he was already living with his manager, and he was openly gay.
In 1982 he shocked the public when he married Renate Blauel, but he divorced her 4 years late. In 2017 he went public for the first time with the comments regarding his marriage with Renate: “I denied who I really was.” John said that Blauel is “a wonderful woman for whom I have so much love and admiration,” but that the split filled her with “sadness” and him “huge guilt and regret.”
John is currently married to David Furnish, whom he met in 1993.
