JUST IN: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

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.

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 Bernstein posted on Twitter, “also yes,” which received more than 6,000 likes.

“I am not gay, but it would be okay if I were—and there is nothing wrong with being gay, but I am not,” you are trying to communicate. He stated last year in an interview with Dax Shepard’s podcast, “Armchair Expert,” that “you do not really know how to respond to the circumstance.”

The rumor mill has targeted other celebrities besides Mendes. Public personalities who have taken turns include Hugh Jackman, Hillary Clinton, Tom Cruise, and Oprah

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