Is NE-YO gay?

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Singer Ne-yo Announces He Is Gay

Essence Magazine August 23,2006

The newly famed singer/songwriter has came out of the closet and announced that he is gay. The multi-platinum recording artist sat down for the October issue of Essence Magazine last week and announced the shocking news stating, "Yes, I am gay, and I have always been." After several internet rumors have been circulating around the internet. He also said, "You now this world we live in is full of judgement, resulting in one of the reasons why it took me so long to come out of the closet." Earlier this month, a man by the name of Derrick Johnson claimed that he had an intimate relationship with the singer during there teen years in high school. He also said that for months the singer and Def Jam has been trying to pay him to keep quiet over the ordeal. Worrying that it would destroy his image. Ne-yo responds saying, that the relationship did occur and he is no longer ashamed of saying that he was deeply in love. Reciting "That situation was what inspired me to write the song Unfaithful. But no one knew it was actually about myself, and our relationship." He told Essence that he doesn't care anymore, he was tired of living a lie and is ready to come clean. Quoting, "the music industry can either except me for who I am, or desert me." The full interview with the magazine is expected to hit stands mid-October.

Barbra Stradoff,
Essence Magazine

Answer 1

WOAHH.. HE IS NOT GAY!!!!!!! hes too sexy 2 b gay

Answer 2

From Eurweb.com: (This basically sums everything up)

"*R&B singer Ne-Yo has had an interesting couple of weeks on the World Wide Web. First a picture of him and a young woman in the midst of a sex act surfaces, courtesy of his hacked-into Sidekickas the story goes.

A rumor being e-mailed around this week, and attributed to Barbra Stradoff, Essence Magazine is that Ne-Yo is gay and finally coming out of the closet in the pages of the publications October issue. But according to the magazine, the rumor is 100 percent false.

This story is not true. Ne-Yo isn't even in our October issue, and there's no one here by the name of Barbara Stradoff, a rep for Essence told EUR."

To the fans, I love y'all, and to the haters, keep hating.

Your boy Ne-Yo tha Kidd

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Is NE-YO gay?
Singer Ne-yo Announces He Is Gay

Essence Magazine August 23,2006

The newly famed singer/songwriter has came out of the closet and announced that he is gay. The multi-platinum recording artist sat down for the October issue of Essence Magazine last week and announced the shocking news...

Answer 4

Yup, Ne-Yo is a bi. Even Wikipedia said it. Check there article on him. But he's a bi because he has a son. He was actrully kind of smart to say it right after his CD cooled down, because now people aren't going to say, after buying his CD and blowing the money "I'm not going to listen to him he;'s gay" because that would just be dumb.

**22 hours later Ok actrully now Wikipedia took of that part of the article that says he's a bi

Answer 5

Rumor.. Barbara Stradoff can not be found anywhere under editors, publishers or writers working for Essence magazine. Just sounds like someone is mad at Mr. Ne-Yo!

Answer 6

Why is it anybody's business whether Ne-yo is gay or not. He is an amazing singer,song writer and a performer. I luv his music and what he does and who he chooses to be with in his private time is none of our business.

Answer 7

I hope he's not gay. Not that there's anything wrong with being gay, but when he writes songs like 'unfaithful'....it would make the song less enjoyable if i knew he was writing it for another man. But anyway, I thought it was odd that a brutha is gonna come out like that. It's a different set of rules for Black men to be gay in America.

Answer 8

I dont think that NE-YO is gay I think people are just mad that his first album has sold very well and I just want everyone to stop spreading these rumors unless you have full proof. Cuz magazines do LIE!!

Answer 9

NO! NO! NO! Ne-Yo is NOT, I repeat...NOT Gay! or at least he hasn't admitted to it...yet. That is a fake interview by someone who doesn't even work for essence magazine!!! It is a good rumor tho!

Answer 10

He Is Gay. I Heard It 2 Day On The Radio In Atlanta

Answer 11

I guess he's tryna end his career, cuz gay is like anti hip hop. Man you probably made this up, I almost believed u, u don't even have a link to the site and I know fa sho you didn't type all of that from a magazine. Good Try!