I like it. I think it’s f***ing cool that someone calls me a bisexual icon. I’ve seen that before. I’m like, ‘F***, yeah!’
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong speaking to People about being a bisexual icon and coming out in the ’90s.
Being a Gen X-er, I feel like there was a seed that got planted where it was the era in the ’90s that we came up, where men were discovering more of being with other men, and being more bisexual, and coming out with that, whether it was someone like Kurt Cobain or what I was saying.
It’s way more complex now, as far as sexuality. You’re like, ‘Wow, we’ve really come a long way.’ Even though it’s still kind of looked at as being taboo, I think people now are a lot more brave than they’ve ever been. I think people are way more open now.
Sexuality is always so much more than what the standard, nuclear-family type of way of looking at things. But I have been married — there’s this other side of me that’s very conventional when it comes to my 30-year marriage to my wife.
But I just look at sexuality: It’s not one way or the other. And if anybody ever tries to say that, I don’t think they’re really being honest with themselves.
RIGay
Excessively cool. He’s like a Bowie for this century.
johncp56
that’s a stretch
SDR94103
lol
Claytonisahobo
Interesting how all these progressive male celebrity bi-sexuals always marry or date women?
DennisMpls
That is a fantastic song and video. It actually feels like a real 90s video. Billie Joe has been one of my heroes, and it’s good to see he’s looking great at 51.
One of the highlights of their career to me was when they did John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero” on the finale of American Idol over 10 years ago. Turned it into a passionate rock song, and at the end they bowed their heads and let the last sentence of the song – sung twice – be John Lennon’s voice from his original version: “If you want to be a hero, then just follow me.”
deann
” sexuality is not one way or another and everyone who tells you that are not honest with themselves.”
He just implies that homosexuality doesn’t exist since according to him , “sexuality is not one way or another” and anyone that is not like that are delusional.
monty clift
The “hearts not parts” community always end up circling back to homophobia.