Yesterday, after, oh, years and years and years of speculation, Ricky Martin finally came out of the closet. Wait, you mean he wasn’t? Nope. While I totally commend Martin for finally coming out as a proud gay man and father, I couldn’t help but echo the loud “duh” heard round the world. Did he honestly think he was fooling anyone? Martin joins a long line of celebrities who came out of the closet to the shock of no one except maybe their most deeply in denial fans. Click through this slideshow of famous gays and lesbians whose coming out was met with a collective yawn. ||||| Today Ricky Martin dropped a crazy truth bomb on the world and acknowledged he is a "homosexual man." Yeah, duh! But he's not the only public figure still hiding—unsuccessfully—in the glass closet. 
 
 All of these people really need to come out because it is so painfully obvious to the world that they are gay that when and if they finally announce it, we're probably going to be laughing at them. (See Sean Hayes for another recent example of this.) Coming out should be an occasion for joy, not for a bunch of people snickering about how they saw it coming for years. It's already too late for many of these people, but how about standing up and being counted now and not making it worse by waiting? 
 
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– Ricky Martin finally came out, and the world said, “Duh.” On Gawker, Brian Moylan lists 10 more public figures who really need to admit they’re gay already—after all, the rest of us know. View the list in the gallery—or, for 10 more celebrities who also came out to a chorus of “Obviously!” click here.