Urgent:Shawn Mendes Rushed to the Hospital in a Critical Condition
The announcement last week by pop sensations Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello that they were ending their two-year romance sent a shockwave through the LGBTQ community, or at least gay Twitter.
Although Mendes claims to be straight, there have been long-running suspicions regarding his sexual orientation. The queer community has long been fascinated by the subject, and his split did little to stop defenders and rumors.
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In the last week, hundreds of people shared memes on social media, many of them making jokes about how homosexual guys will be swarming to the star’s house now that he is single. As word of the couple’s breakup broke last week, Google searches for “Shawn Mendes homosexual” reached a three-year high, outpacing those for Transgender Awareness Week, which coincided with the event.
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One Twitter user said, “The gays rejoice.” Others, however, called the jokes and speculations “gross.”
Are some of Shawn Mendes’ comments about homosexuality humorous? yes. Do they also make me think of the terrible, gut-punch feeling I used to get when I was closeted and someone told me I was gay because I had, for a split second, taken off my mask and pretended to be feminine? Gay social media influencer Matt
