A post shared by Roberto Manrique (@robertomanrique13)Ecuadorian heartthrob, actor and model Roberto Manrique has come out publicly as a gay man.Manrique, 42, the star of the popular telenovelas Doña Bárbara, Victorinos and El Clon, took to Instagram on Saturday to share heartfelt news with his fans.“It had never seemed important to me to say that I am homosexual because I really considered that it is irrelevant, that there are other aspects of who I am and that is the priority,” Manrique explained in the video. “Robertito [Little Robert] grew up in a world that did not allow him to be who he was, when even crying was not of men, that vulnerability was not worthy, let alone the fact that I liked men and that I felt, since I can remember,.