Shawn Mendes Opens Up About Sexuality During Colorado Concert
Shawn Mendes opened up about his sexuality as he performed before fans at a concert in Colorado on Monday evening.The singer-songwriter, 26, started his address by telling the audience gathered at Morrison's Red Rocks Amphitheatre that he had "thought about this for a minute today, if I was gonna say something tonight at this point."After a lengthy pause, Mendes was cheered on by the crowd as he spoke about his early start in the music industry."I was really young when I started.
I was 15 years old," he said. "The truth is that I didn't get to do a lot of 15-year-old things and discover parts of myself that you do at 15.""There's this thing about my sexuality, and people have been talking about it so long," he went on, adding that it was "kind of silly, because I think sexuality is such a beautifully complex thing, and it's so hard to just put into boxes.""It always felt like such an intrusion on something very personal to me.
Something that I was figuring out in myself, something that I had yet to discover and still have yet to discover it," he continued. "The real truth about my life and my sexuality is that, man, I'm just figuring it out like everyone.
And it feels really scary because we live in a society that has a lot to say about that. And I'm trying to be really brave and just allow myself to be a human and feel things.
