Fans don't listen to me as I'm gay: Ricky Martin

Every gay is "born gay" and that is simply his nature: Ricky Martin

SAO PAULO: Singer Ricky Martin said on Sunday that many of his fans around the world have told him they will not listen to his music any more after he confessed that he is gay.

The 39 year old Puerto Rican singer, in an interview with Brazilian magazine Veja said that every gay is "born gay" and that is simply his nature.

"I wanted the world to understand that to love in the way I love is not revolutionary, it's a natural thing, my nature made me this way. Every gay is born gay. Social life is opposed to that nature and that's where the conflicts start," Martin added.

Martin, who was once a member of the Hispanic boy band Menudo, has two children born in 2008 to a surrogate mother. He said it was the way his children looked at him that led him to accept publicly his sexual orientation.