Johnny Mathis Comes Out – Twice For National Coming Out Day we tell the story of the man Frank Sinatra mocked as “the African Queen,” Johnny Mathis. African American pop star and heartthrob Mathis kept his sexual orientation a secret until, believing that what he was saying was off the record, he was quoted in a 1982 Us Magazine article. "Homosexuality is a way of life that I've grown accustomed to." In the wake of some death threats, Mathis retreated back to the closet and did not definitively