Nick Jonas doesn’t mind if you think he’s gay. In fact, it seems he’d actually prefer it.
His two current acting projects — Kingdom and Scream Queens — cast him as gay. He regularly appears in gay clubs to promote his music, and he even stepped in to save Pittsburgh Pride last summer after Iggy Azalea was uninvited.
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But the burning question remains. “So…are you gay?”
When quizzed by Daily Star Online at the Radio One Teen Awards recently about whether he’s hooked up with guys, Nick responded, “I can’t say if I have or haven’t, but if you watch [Kingdom] you’ll see more of that.”
Related: Five Straight Musicians Who Have Courted The Gays To Varying Degrees Of Success
You can’t say, or you won’t say?
It does appear that all the gay baiting is just some very clever marketing, and yet we still wind up liking Nick at the end of the day.
Speaking about his gay fan base, Nick has said, “There’s a thing of recognizing that you have gay fans, as a male artist. I was speaking to some of my very close gay friends as I was making the record, and they told me I should really make the effort to embrace my gay audience as it’s bigger than I might think. There should be more of it. There should be more heterosexual male artists who are comfortable to attract a gay audience and do it in a way that’s authentic. With me, it comes from a very genuine and loving place.”
Could it be that Nick has been “embracing” his gay fans more than we previously thought?
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Remington Maier
He’s not gay, he’s just smart…or at least his publicist is.
Kyle DeBlasio
No what he actually says is “watch the show where I play a gay character and you can watch me act gay! And to me that is the same as expirimenting”
Tyler Evertsen
He needs to come out, already!
Cam
So he’s another James Franco.
I don’t mind, better to have them courting the LGBT crowd than attacking us.
Frankly I always thought his older married brother was the gay one.
Charles Sherwood Morrill
I wish you would stop with the lies in your headlines. I am fixing to block you
Jamie Watkins
Slow news day?
Ron Pomerantz
omg you guys… it’s genius gay baiting and awesome PR. it’s all good, but don’t make it something it isn’t. can’t you be cooler than this? haven’t we grown up some?
Tavis Malmstrom
Hope is alive for what?
Chris Turk
smart PR move, keep all options and fans open
Xzamilio
Oh, please… this has “pandering” all over it. I’m just gonna say it: if you fall for this nonsense, you don’t love yourself. You’re good being who you are, Nick Jonas… the extra shit like the “is he or isn’t he?” is just exhausting… because whatever you are, it’s not sitting on my face, so I’m coo. Not “cool”… “coo.”
Eric Pietrangolare
Jamie Hendrix
Masc Pride
He’s totally gay-baiting…but I still wouldn’t mind him sitting on my face.
David Montgomery
It’s a stunt but I don’t mind.
Jeran Artery
Mike Bleakley…. So you’re sayin we’ve got a chance??!! 😉
James Beaman
I find it so distasteful, the amount of obsession amongst gay men with bedding a straight guy, or converting a straight guy or whatever. Do we hate ourselves and other gay men so much? Blech.
Jack Kear
But why do we like him? He reminds me so much of a monkey.
Matthew Farris
Is there a block button for anything Jonas? I’d pay for that.
Mathias Cronqvist
Why in the fresh purple hell is this even news?
Don Hall
Why does it even matter if he is or not…jeez
DuMaurier
@James Beaman:
I completely get what you’re saying, I just don’t know if it’s as cut-and-dried as “self-hatred”. Talking to a (straight, male) friend about this straight-guy “obsession”, I speculated that the least negative interpretation might be that it’s like the classic hetero fantasy of “melting” (often forcefully) the ice queen, the staid librarian whose resistance turns into panting lust when she’s “broken down” etc–come to think of it, maybe these straight fantasies (some of which I first encountered in 19th century erotica my dad owned) aren’t so healthy either….
Either way, let’s not pretend it isn’t a “traditional” part of gay “culture”. It’s freaking pervasive throughout “our” literature, porn, iconography, etc etc. Whatever it “means”.
Martin Steele
Oh please…. it’s a Daily Star article that’s the source
wtfbye
“after Iggy Azalea was uninvited” ….um excuse you, Iggy dropped out of the show on her own.
Jerome Robertson
the thirst is real for him
Aromaeus
@wtfbye: Sure she did.
More queer baiting from Nick I see.
Doug Bowser
This is the purity ring guy, right?
Wyatt Glover
Matthew Steed
Desert Boy
Nicky Jonas is so fucking hot. He can sing and act and I like him.
Philip Shimkus
Yum!
Drew Doval
Viviana I have a chance #twerkin
CWM85
He is pandering to a large fanbase of his. Its smart. Doesn’t mean he likes dudes tho he isn’t rejecting making out with dudes on cam for money… lol
Bry Bry Ona Cruz
He wants our pink money, that’s all. ð???
Donnie Bailey
It’s no ones business what he does. If he he is gay or bi, he’ll come out when he’s ready.
Matthew David Thompson
Matthew McMillion
Guye Priaulx
He’s just baiting, he knows where his bread is buttered
Nick Dillon
Timothy Grover
I thought the Jonas family were devout Christians?
SalvadorAble Sandoval
You bastard! I thought I was your one and only.
DDstar1me
I guess we should just be happy that he is trying to expand his gay following. I like him but, mehhh..! In other news..
sportsguy1983
So obviously gay baiting and so many gay guys buying into it.
Ricky Robichaud
Joseph Taft-Tremblay
Richard Anderson
Gay or not still hot to have in my bed
Richard Anderson
alphacentauri
Meh
Sansacro
@DuMaurier: Completely. Much more complex then the reductive “self-hatred.”
vbnudeguy
Is it the media who cares so much about celebrities’ sexuality or is it we the consumers? I really feel like “who cares” at this point. If someone is gay or straight or whatever and they play a gay or straight or whatever character WHO CARES? It makes absolutely no difference. Good for Nick for embracing his own sexuality – in the sense that he seems confident in his sexual appeal – and using it to move his career forward. I’m so done with gossiping about who is gay and who isn’t. 🙂
Markajv
@Remington Maier: Again, I ask. Why does anyone care if someone is gay or not. I really thought we were past that. Or are we still having masturbatory fantasies? Seems to me like Nick was raised by a family that taught him that people are people no matter what. He is also in an industry where you can’t pick and choose your fans. You embrace them. It also doesn’t hurt his career to be so open. So stop the “Is he or Isn’t he” and just be happy with the fact that he isn’t homophobic.
Markajv
@Remington Maier: Sorry I have no idea my last post was sent as a reply to you.
Ian Charlie O'Connell
Utter gay bait, highly boring.
Sweetie Pie
Anything for the money
Eric F. Molnar
Big deal
Eric F. Molnar
Ogre Magi
I thought he was a christian?
Bob LaBlah
Isn’t it about time he flashed his bare ass?
ProfessorMoriarty
^^^ YAAAAAS 😎 😉
Armando Casillas Rivas
Rauly Torres
Doughosier
History has shown us, the celebrities who play coy eventually come out.
DDstar1me
@Doughosier ….wishful thinking. But, girl that boy is str8.
Hussain-TheCanadian
Why can’t he say “I’m straight but I think its awesome that gay men and woman like me and find me attractive, more power to you guys”!
Wouldn’t that be a whole lot more respectable, tasteful, mature, and genuine, rather than acting coy? Which is immature and distasteful?
Jim Philbrick
Just queer baiting
Brian
I think it’s great that Nick can leave you desperate gays twisting in the wind. You are so obsessed with recruiting men to the gay identity, it’s refreshing when someone doesn’t appease you.
Let him say whatever he wishes to say without identifying. If he’s been with a man, more power to him. He shouldn’t have to identify as gay. It’s not your business as a gay community to impose an identity on others.
ryantbo
Just another artist pandering to and baiting the gay audiences to up his sales. I got so tired of UK artist Robbie Williams doing that, that I have zero patience now for guys like Jonas
Hussain-TheCanadian
@Brian: Gay Identity?
oh be quite Brain, I thought you liked co*ck too??? It seems like you’re changing your mind between “hey bro let me hold you jacket” to “yo bro Can I hold your dick” – Make up your mind damn it.
money718
@Jack Kear: Thank you.
SportGuy
@Jack Kear: LOL, OMG! I couldn’t figure out what he reminded me of and you nailed it,lol.
Gay Veteran
I need to see receipts because this sounds like he’s answering the question about his character’s sexual experiences.
“So…are you gay?”
Nick Jonas has been known to have several gfs and 0 bfs. If you’re going to ask the question… wouldn’t it be “Are you bi?”
When quizzed by Daily Star Online at the Radio One Teen Awards recently about whether he’s hooked up with guys, Nick responded, “I can’t say if I have or haven’t, but if you watch [Kingdom] you’ll see more of that.”
Sounds like he’s talking about his character.
Captain Obvious
I don’t see how some people still have no gaydar. We went through this with Ricky Martin, Clay Gaiken, etc. Every time those of us with fully functioning dar say the person is gay those who can’t tell a duck from a goat tell us we’re wrong… then 10 years later they knew it all along.
Anyway. Girlfriend is a duck. Who cares though? She cute, but not that cute where I’m sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for an announcement.
Josh447
I think labels are just fine. It tells the bare bones story. Like being straight versatile. I mean, without that label, I wouldn’t have a clue where that guy stands. Labels are Very very helpful. Ya just gotta be brave enough to own where ya fit.
Bo Hamrk
Hey folks, consider this… WHY do we need or feel that we HAVE to place labels on everyone? Me,…I’m NOT gay. I’m NOT str8! I’m NOT even BI!!!, pansexual, cross~sexual, homosexual, heterosexual, mansexual, lumbersexual, metrosexual, yada~yada~yada and so on and so on and so…you get my drift… I AM who I am and it SHOULD NOT MATTER to ANYONE else UNLESS I am being intimate with THEM/YOU.
Cut and dry. #DROP THE LABELS
stranded
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Bo Hamrk
@Brian:You are correct! See my entry above^
Bo Hamrk
@Hussain-TheCanadian: *quiet – don’t let the blogrammer pols hit you up again.
Bo Hamrk
@Ogre Magi: And you think that being a Xtian is any different?
Pistolo
@Bo Hamrk: That’s so moronic. Label implies that it’s imposed on you whereas your sexuality is what YOU PERSONALLY IDENTIFY AS. It just so happens, you’re the most special, complex, unique, transcendent sexual that ever sexed and there’s probably others like you which establishes community, support, advocacy. If we didn’t have “labels”, hardly any of us would’ve made as much progress as we had- the first protesters didn’t say “WE’RE HERE, WE’RE LIKE SO BEYOND LABELS BUT PRBLY NOT HETEROSEXUAL, I DUNNO. WAIT, I DO KNOW! DOWN WITH LABELS! I’M AN INTELLECTUAL” – they said “We’re here, we’re QUEER so get used to it”.
QUEER is the general term for anyone not straight, there also are “labels” that accommodate fluidity and indecision/questioning. So stop being pretentious.
& Nick Jonas, show us your dick or start having sex with men then we’ll care. For now, keep plugging & hinting, see how that works for you.
Bo Hamrk
@Markajv: Yes! Celebrate diversity! Not only in sexual orientation but, with color,(I’m color blind)body weight, abilities/disabilities,age,(comes wisdom!)height, hair and eye color,…I could go on but, the point I am trying to make is…WHY DO WE JUDGE PEOPLE WITHOUT JUDGING OURSELVES FIRST!? Look at your own soul, dig deep. Do you like what you see? When and if you ever do, you will have a more loving lease on LIFE. Do not waste precious time being all about Me,Me,ME ME first!Show some respect,consideration, love and empathy for others. It is NOT all about U!
Bo Hamrk
@vbnudeguy: Yes, me too…let’s move on…nothing to see here…
Louis
I like him either way gay or not he has never said anything negative or hateful about any of us and he does come across as genuinely loving and supportive of our community.
That’s what matters more then anything to me anyways.
Joe
Jonas is very smart. He must have a great management team. He’s doing everything right with his career. He’s marketing himself to everyone. To get your dance music played, one must start at the gay dance clubs who he has no fear of being seen at. I don’t think he is gay at all, just incredibly smart when it comes to his acting/singing career. The fact that he is hot also helps. He appeals to the masses. This guy is going to be huge like a Timberlake. It’s only a matter of time before he break’s huge…he is well on his way.
Avery Alvarez
Whether he’s gay or straight or something else, I still fap to him regardless.
drivendervish
Hope is alive? If we want people to stop labeling others by whom they sleep with (And we do) Gay people need to stop doing it, NOW! Will my life get better if Nick comes out? I doubt it. If it means that he will start coming by my house to do me after a long hard day on the set, that’s great but apparently there’s some delay involved because I’m still waiting for Tom Daley, Jussie Smollett, Robbie Rogers, Steve Grand, etc
Captain Obvious
@Avery Alvarez: Haha so true. Joe Manganiello doesn’t ping at all and probably never will but that won’t stop my imagination. That said I still don’t find it offensive to ask the question or speculate. I think people are way too sensitive to little stuff nowadays. Gay men should be the last people trying to turn “gay” into a bad word you shouldn’t use.
NoCagada
OH, Nicky…just come out
seaguy
@Remington Maier: Amen. And he is easy on the eyes.
Nahald
So ? ALOT of guys experiment. There’s nothing wrong wit that. However, MOST straight guys would be damned to ever admit it.
LibraOracle
You don’t have to be gay to support gays,hooking up with men doesn’t make you gay either,most people just don’t understand and are to ignorant to know that we all have both heterosexual or homosexual genes in us,it doesn’t matter which one is activated and wich one is not,you didn’t create yourself don’t pretend to be in control of everything,Nature is!
Wise men wih true knowlegde like Nick Jonas or Daniel Radcliffe are just concerned about all the injustice against gays and would do anything to defend their cause 😉
Marky
@Cam: Hopefully he doesn’t turn out as douche-y by the time he’s fully cooked right?
StormNC
@Kyle DeBlasio: Exactly! He doesn’t say he’s gay. He says he plays a gay character! That would be like saying he was a doctor because he played one on TV!
garbone100
The guy is comfortable with gay guys. Not threatened by assumption or association. Every guy who’s comfortable with gay guys doesn’t mean he wants to suck dick. Maybe he’s just curious and open to the possibility. That kind of confidence is hot. strategic? Maybe, but it makes him very attractive as a possibility. Leave the kid alone, respect his courage and cleverness.
MudgeBoy
I don’t understand the postings that consist of only a name, like Jamie Hendrix, Rollin Torres, etc. I searched for a few but found no connection to Jonas. I don’t get it?
Dirtybird_Mary
@Remington Maier: agreed!
Dirtybird_Mary
well, dunno about him being gay or not, but you know I like to think he’s contemplated long ‘n hard (no pun intended) bout what a boy could do for him, that no female could, (utilizing certain benefits of similar physiology) & he seems open to some degree to it – & dare I say, less fucked up than the rest of the brood.