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"&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=\"Ricky\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2012/07/02/ricky-2.jpeg\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px;\" /&gt;Ricky Martin&lt;/strong&gt; has revealed that he is a &lt;strong&gt;gay &lt;/strong&gt;man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martin -- who has dodged questions of his sexuality for years -- just posted the following message on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://rickymartinmusic.com/portal/news/news.asp?item=114532\"&gt;his official website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: \"I am proud to say that I am a fortunate &lt;strong&gt;homosexual &lt;/strong&gt;man. I am very blessed to be who I am.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martin says the birth of his twin sons led to his decision to come out -- and according to the singer, \"To keep living as I did up until today would be to indirectly diminish the glow that my kids where [sic] born with.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ricky's kids were born in August 2008."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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