While his music continued to perform well in the U.K., he never scored another hit in the U.S. A year prior to the release of the Puerto Rican singer’s English-language debut, which launched his career into the stratosphere, British pop star George Michael had been publicly “outted” when he was arrested for soliciting an undercover cop in a public restroom in Beverly Hills. Ricky Martin - who announced he was a “proud homosexual” in 2010 after years of speculation, including an infamous interview with Barbara Walters that Martin recently said still haunts him - rode a wave of success driven largely by a loyal female fanbase eager to watch him shake is “bon-bon.” But the idea of an out-and-proud male pop star being embraced by the mainstream, and before his debut album has even dropped ( Montero is due this summer), would have been unthinkable just 20 years ago. Rock musicians like David Bowie and Elton John flirted with androgyny, and both spoke publicly about their bisexuality as early as the 1970s.
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