Harry Styles made headlines last week when he suggested that he might be bisexual. During an interview he told a reporter that gender is “not that important” when evaluating a potential new mate.
The media (including us) took the story and ran, and it’s easy to imagine Harry getting annoyed with the coverage. His bandmate Louis Tomlinson, by comparison, thought he was being called gay and didn’t take it lightly, getting into a bit of a Twitter spat with a reporter.
But if there’s one person who doesn’t appear at all bothered with Harry Styles bi rumors, it’s Harry Styles. In the wake of all this hubbub, he’s thrown more fuel on the fire.
During an interview, he and the only other romantically available One Direction member, Niall, were asked about their love lives by The Sun. They got into a joking bit about how Niall sleeps with a different girl each week, and the reporter suggested the next person should be a male.
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Harry then placed his hand on Niall’s knee and told him, “Don’t knock it ’til you try it.”
In a parallel universe somewhere, Harry leaned over and gave Niall a long, passionate kiss on the lips, putting an end to all this bizarre homoerotic sexual tension once and for all.
wagnerwallace
Harry Styles is not gay or bisexual – he is straight. Why do us gays continue to let straight entertainers pander and troll us. Same goes for Nick Jonas, James Franco, etc.
Large Marge
They can pander to me all they want. It DOES make me like them more, plus it’s good for fantasies.
Do I really care if he is gay or not? No… it’s not like I’ll ever have the chance to date him. So I find this all whimsical rather than malicious, nor am I cynical enough to think he’s doing it to just get more money from his fans. I think he really believes in equality and is using his platform to broadcast that ‘gay is okay’.
dhmonarch89
After all the innuendo/etc he’s created-he’s fair game to ask outright: ‘Are you Bi?’
Silas Wegg
kek
This is a further reach than the last one. Str8 kids — even though they’re not allowed to say ‘gay’ or the F-word anymore — can still jokingly make subtle homo jabs at each other. That’s what this sounds like to me — def nothing to get your dick wet over.
Harry dates cougars, not daddies.
Aromaeus
Stop with your bi erasure queerty. They aren’t gay rumors, they are bi rumors.
gauty
@Aromaeus: Agreed. It’s phenomenal how even sites that claim to be LGBTQA oriented constantly erase bisexuality. It’s getting to be really fucking irritating.
money718
F*ck. Who cares.
demented
@Aromaeus: Agreed. If he said that he doesn’t perceive a difference between male and female, that means bi. Not gay. Bi.
jantheman4903
i kind of like it. it shows progress. what if any member of a boy band even 10 years ago had played with media like that? he would have been torn apart.. similarly i loved seeing daniel tosh declare he is gay,then straight then gay again. there ARE young gay fans watching him (yea,duh) and some are at least getting the signal that they are ok with him, imo. have a great day all.
demented
@jantheman4903: Who cares what’s ok with Daniel Tosh? He’s a despicable human being!
RIGay
@wagnerwallace: Because he’s young and has hair.
Milk
Regardless of his sexuality. I hope he continue to give this kind of answer. Way better than his other band mate who worship the Duck Dynasty bigot.
ShaeChristine
I am a firm believer that Harry Styles is Pan Sexual.
Hillers
It’s cute and all and who wouldn’t want to fantasize, but he’s just being cheeky. Just like Brenton Thwaites. I would love to be called wrong, but there are you.
Doughosier
We know NOTHING of his real life. He brings in a lot of money to a lot of people so they will go to great lengths to make sure he appears straight. Rumors will happen though if he’s gay. I’m not saying he is but don’t judge him by who he “dates”
OzJosh
The only noteworthy thing here is that Queerty editors continue to behave like twisted editors of The News of The World circa 1974, seizing desperately on any stray remark to turn into something that sounds vaguely like an expose. In doing so they display no awareness that the world has indeed moved on. Young guys today will routinely make jokes about sexual orientation. About 95% of the time it’s no more than a joke, and more indicative of a degree of homophobia than repressed sexuality. You’d get the same remarks daily among any working class guys on a building site. As for pop stars, they often deliberately make remarks about their sexual inclination (usually on specific instruction from managers and PR types) because it creates mystique and generates headlines. The most obviously heterosexual (like Styles) inevitably make the most bold and outlandish statements because it comes off as humorous and laddish (see building site humour). But Queerty has to strip those remarks of all the obvious nuance and context for the sake of another tabloid “could he be?” item. It’s nothing short of pathetic.
Alan down in Florida
Harry Styles is the second coming of Robbie Williams when it comes to hinting gay/bi-sexuality. So young’uns we’ve been there done that a generation ago.
James
I know he’s probably straight, probably. But it doesn’t hurt to keep wishing, eh!;)
jjose712
@wagnerwallace: First, Nick Jonas never teased with his sexuality, he wants gay fans, and he doesn’t mind stripping to get them but he never said anything to hint he is not straight.
Second, the rumours about Harry Styles are not new, half his female fans think he is gay. The fact that his pr relationships are obviously fake don’t make him look straight either, the fact that he even explain that he use to go with his “girlfriends” to his favourite gay bar doesn’t help either, the fact that he spend the night in the house of Nick Grimshaw (famous gay dj of bbc) doesn’t help either.
I don’t know if he is gay or bi (there are more probabilities of that that he being straight) but he doesn’t care at all.
Lately this kind of news are full of people who doesn’t write on the webpages (this and others like this) defending Styles heterosexuality than remind me of Clay Aiken more hardcore fans. And frankly i find strange so much interest in that when Styles himself doesn’t seem to have any interest in being perceived as straight
thestallionrider
He’s too cute to be straight…
wagnerwallace
@jjose712: I’m not defending him. I just don’t think he’s gay or bi – I think he is straight. Simply because, unlike you, I don’t have all these wild conspiracy theories about his numerous relationships with A-list female celebs, NOR do I let my imagination run wild about his friendship with a gay DJ.
D P
@Large Marge: – I’m with you, Large Marge! I love the way you put it, too.
Harry Styles can play coy with me, any time.
Ah, fantasies will abound!