A 22-year-old pop star's announcement that he is gay, making him the first high-profile member of Mexico's show-business elite to "come out" in public, has caused a stir in the deeply conservative Catholic country. Christian Chavez, one of six members of the glitzy pop band RBD, told fans he was gay after photographs were published on a gossip Web site purporting to show him tying the knot with his partner in a ceremony in Canada.
