{"id":326142,"date":"2011-03-21T09:08:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T09:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/21\/ricky-martin-coming-out-was-intense\/"},"modified":"2011-03-21T09:08:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T09:08:37","slug":"ricky-martin-coming-out-was-intense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/ricky-martin-coming-out-was-intense\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Martin: Coming Out Was Intense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div><span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20475097,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span><br \/>\nPeople.com<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a> : \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n After revealing just a year ago that he is a fortunate homosexual man, Ricky Martin spoke more about what a powerful experience coming out was at Saturday night&#8217;s GLAAD Media Awards. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been through an intense spiritual process for the last five years, especially the last two years,&#8221; he told reporters in New York.  &#8220;I needed to share it with the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And it seems the rest of the world welcomed him with open arms.  &#8220;My twitter account went from 500,000 to 1.8 million followers!&#8221;  he said of his growing fan base, also calling it &#8220;an honor&#8221; to accept the Vito Russo Award, honoring openly gay and lesbian entertainers.   &#8220;I&#8217;m walking today with my head up high, and to be here? To be receiving an award?  I&#8217;ve only started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_1042-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Follow this link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/foreign.peacefmonline.com\/entertainment\/201103\/146299.php\" title=\"Ricky Martin: Coming Out Was Intense\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ricky Martin: Coming Out Was Intense<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> People.com : \u00a0\u00a0 After revealing just a year ago that he is a fortunate homosexual man, Ricky Martin spoke more about what a powerful experience coming out was at Saturday night&#8217;s GLAAD Media Awards. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been through an intense spiritual process for the last five years, especially the last two years,&#8221; he told reporters in New York. &#8220;I needed to share it with the world.&#8221; And it seems the rest of the world welcomed him with open arms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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