A number of Latin acts have come out in the past two years, including Raymix, Pablo Alboran, Joy Huerta from Jesse & Joy, and Grupo Firme's Jhonny Cazares.
Cazares: Omar Vega/Getty Images. Raymix: Rodrigo Varela/Getty Images. Huerta: Michael Tran/FilmMagic. Esteman: Diego Nishizawa. AlborÁn: Warner Music.A striking number of Latin artists have come out in recent years.
When Esteman broke out in 2009 with the viral hit “No Te Metas a Mi Facebook” , “I was out of the closet and had [shared] my sexual orientation with my family and friends,” the 37-year-old tellsin Spanish. But for years, being gay never felt like something he could talk openly about in his music: “The advice always was, both from my family, for my protection, but also from the people who were getting to know me [in the industry]: ‘Don’t reveal your personal life; one must be prudent.
The diverse Latin music community is hard to generalize. But according to the Human Rights Campaign, obstacles that Latinx LGBTQ+ people face in coming out include religious discrimination and various cultures’ emphasis on, a particular concept of manliness that values strict gender roles. Attitudes have been evolving though, especially as a number of countries have legalized same-sex marriage, including Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay , Colombia , Ecuador and Costa Rica .
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