Shawn Mendes explains why it's 'hurtful' when fans speculate about his sexuality

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Shawn said on Dax Shepard‘s podcast about the rumors that he’s gay

Comments

[goldie3]

Speculating sexuality of a minor is gross. But like dude, I get it, that's the only 'struggle' in your life that you have faced. You don't have to constantly harp on it. No one is looking at you to be the torture artist

[dreamdate]

People still till this day question his sexuality. It's gross and never okay, even if you think it's the only real struggle he's had to face which, by the way, you don't.

[frickinawesome7]

[elvasle]

i get it, he's a celebrity, but he's not wrong.

it's disgusting that people sexualize celebrities at any age. even drew barrymore was sexualized at 9 years old.

[jensonanckles]

He's not wrong.

[lovelyluna34]

My Ex-BF ( who also happened to be my witness at my civil marriage ceremony ) Has had this thrown in his face his whole life.
So many of my friends always say that hes gay and that he doesn't know it yet.
He's 38 and as his best friend it pisses me off.

[spoil]

That's so shitty, your friends sound like assholes I'm sorry.

[lovelyluna34]

i should have said EX friends too
so ya they WERE very shitty to him too.

[arabian]

I don't care one way or the other about Mendes, but I hear him. This whole movement of assuming and pushing celebrities to be gay for "reasons" is wrong. If they are, let them come out in their own time, if they're not assuming or giving them a hard time for not "admitting it" is frankly shitty.

[aotearoagal]

It's the fetishising of being "gay" that some so-called fans do... Like psycho Larries.

[spoil]

He's not wrong I mean even people in this community were active participants in jokes and speculation about his sexuality while he was minor and even to this day.