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"I am one of you. Your pride is my pride because without you I would not be great."

Those words were pronounced last Friday by

Isabel Pantoja

on the occasion of her participation in

the Mr. Gay

2022 contest, in Madrid.

The

reappearance

of the singer of

Marinero de Luces

generated

great expectation

and there is still a hangover from her mass bath in the capital.

And it is not for less, since her words have made her reopen the debate on her sexuality.

And it is

not the first time

that Pantoja has spoken openly about this intimate matter.

Twitter users have got down to work and have pulled the

newspaper archive

to bring to the present the other moment in which this topic was discussed.

It was

on April 1, 2004,

in an interview with the legendary

Jesús Quintero

in

Ratones Coloraos

.

A face to face between artist and interviewer with that air of

confessional and a halo of intimacy

that "the madman on the hill" always gave his space.

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In that open-face talk, Isabel Pantoja

used various metaphors

to refer to her sexual condition: "Everyone can think what they want. Have you ever ridden the witch's train? If you can get away and get away with it, you go out. If not, you don't go out. And

if that's in your way, whatever, that's for you.

You get involved wherever you get involved (...) I don't have to prove anything to anyone about who I am. I am who

I am

.a woman.

"

Some statements whose veiled message was not well understood by Jesús Quintero.

"I'm not sure I've found out," said Quintero between laughs, to which the tonadillera responded with "well, I've explained it to you very gracefully.

To the good listener, a few words are enough

."

"Or is it that I would have liked it to be more pedagogical," replied the presenter.

"

[...] Look, we each have a life and we have a marked path and on that path things happen to you, one way or another. And if they happen to you,

you have to accept them calmly and happily.

I don't have to put no sign of anything," he concluded.

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18 years have passed and Isabel Pantoja returns to dealing with issues related to her sexual inclination:

"I carry this flag and have always carried it in my heart

. I have even carried it in a can of Coca-Cola. The people who are here today belong to

the most special and largest group there is.

The LGTBI. I am one of you. Forever and ever, "he said a few days ago before a packed Plaza de España that did not stop chanting his name.

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