Mexican Actor Luis Gerardo Mendez Comes Out (Or At Least His Gender Usage Does)

For English-speaking people, the idea that everything needs to have a gender in many other languages can seem odd. Many a young person has been baffled when learning French as to why a table is feminine but a sofa in masculine (and also why French people care).

While not quite the same, it appears Mexican actor Luis Gerardo Mendez has come out as gay, but we can only tell because he used a word that’s two letters different if you like boys to if you like girls.

According to NewNowNext, while chatting in a recent interview with Moi magazine, Mendez talked about his problems with fidelity, saying “If the agreement is that you can sleep with anybody, there are no problems, but if it’s not, it’s not cool. I was not faithful to many, I struggled a lot with it, but I have redeemed myself.”

And that’s how you come out in Mexico – not because infidelity means you’re gay, but because the actor used the world ‘muchos’ instead of ‘muchas’, which means he’s talking about guys instead of woman (not being an expert on Spanish I’m taking that on trust).

Mendez is best known for the likes of Nosotros Los Nobles (We are the Nobles) and played a gays character in No se si cortarme las venas o dejarmelas largas (I Don’t Know Whether to Slit My Veins or Leave Them Long). He’s a fairly familiar face in Mexico and Spanish-speaking US households, even if he’s not that well known elsewhere.