We hate to be the bearers of bad news, guys, but it looks as though your dreams of marrying Aaron Carter will never come true. The 29-year-old bisexual says he’s only interested in dating members of the opposite sex.
It’s been a wild couple of weeks for the former tween pop star. After coming out as bi on Twitter two weeks ago, his breakup up with his girlfriend was announced the very next day. A few days after that, he kicked off a comeback tour of sorts at Hamburger Mary’s in Brandon, FL. Then he deleted his Twitter and Instagram pages.
Now, the 29-year-old singer has opened up to Us Weekly about the future of his love life.
“Right now I think it’s time for me to focus on myself and not really concern myself with dating and being in relationships,” he told the magazine over the weekend. “I’m going to be 30 years old this year, and I look forward to finding somebody I can settle down with and have a family with and children.”
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TMZ also caught up with Carter recently. When asked if he’s been receiving support from fans, he said that he had. But, he added, “I’ve been hearing a lot of negativity too … like prejudice and slurs, and remarks that I don’t deserve.”
He later added, “When it comes down to it, really, I had an experience when I was 17 with a guy, but now as an almost 30-year-old man, I’m going to be pursuing relationships with women. I want to pursue a relationship with a woman.”
Whomp, whomp.
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Xzamilloh
Shocker!!! I am shocked!!! This is so shocking!!! I cannot even process how shocked I am… it’s like when Colton Haynes came out as gay or finding out that Aaron Schock is vehemently anti-gay while being a closeted homosexual. That level of shock.
leobaga
You do realize Aaron is really straight, right? Just boggles the mind that people actually believe he’s gay or bi. Hilarious.
scotshot
@leobaga You do realize X man was being snarky? Boggles the mind people can’t recognize sarcasm.
Paco
Well of course he is only going to date women. He experimented once as a teenager with another guy. I don’t believe he is really bisexual and seriously doubt he will even be having sex with men on the side.
He is just desperate to revive his career.
Luc
From what I’ve heard, he gets down with dudes on the side pretty often. I believe that he is bi, but I think he has issues.
tr6886
As some of us expect, he abuses bisexuality trying to revive his dead career, but the consequence doesn’t go as successful as he expect. He is now going back. Can any bisexual tell me how gays need to respect bi if bi only present this type of person to public ?
MacAdvisor
I don’t want to date him, nothing so long-term. I just want to have sex with him. He can date all the women he wants.
Jack Meoff
So in other words he is going to be another one of those bi guys who can’t even comprehend of having a relationship with a man but is happy to use men as a convenient way to enjoy some casual sex but still wants to forge a hetero normative life with a woman and still enjoy straight privilege. There needs to be a separate name for guys like that. Oh right there s one. Aeseholes.
Jack Meoff
Correction *arseholes
Donston
If you actually read and decipher what he says he’s also claiming that he’s not interested in sex with men and is hinting that he only had one real sexual experience with a man, which was 10+ years ago. He’s also hinted in a previous interview that he’s not truly sexually attracted to men.
It’s funny how just a couple weeks ago he claimed he was incredibly “open-minded” about his future and was being perfectly vague about everything. Now, in that short time he’s saying he only “hooked up” with a guy once, isn’t particularly sexually attracted to men, isn’t interested in men in any sexual way and isn’t interested in dating anyone but cis women. Despite there being like 100 definitions of the word how does he even fit anyone’s definition of “bisexual”?
Yeah, this is pretty much what many initially assumed it was.
ChrisK
Poor Aaron. Seems that he went though allot of trouble for a song about his Girlfriend dumping him for nothing now.
Jaxton
I like Aaron. He chooses to date only women because he perhaps wants to have a family. He is entitled o make that choice.
Nobody owns him – good on him.
jasentylar
Men can have families too. You don’t need to date a woman for that.
Jaxton
Bisexual is such an inaccurate and imprecise word. It’s almost pointless. Just say “I’m not 100 % heterosexual”.
dash_board1
It’s inaccurate in this case because this was a publicity stunt.
But the term itself is perfectly valid, it just means you are sexually attracted to both men and women, it says nothing about the degree either way. There are a lot of straight (obvious) and gay (not so obvious) people who are actually bi but refuse to identify as such for varying reasons.
Kieran
Ah, this brings back memories of that black dude in the homophobic church: “I’M NOT GAY NO MO! I LIKES ME WOMENS!!”
Jaxton
He’s entitled to choose females only, especially if he wants a traditional nuclear family.
Donston
Brian, even yo crazy and self-hating ass knows this was a publicity stunt.
Just a few weeks ago he made a huge deal about publicly coming out, whining about supposedly being dumped by his gf for being bi, performing and crying at a low-rent gay club and saying he was very open about his future and wasn’t sure what he wanted. Now, in less than a month, he’s not sure if he has any sexual attraction to men, knows he doesn’t want to date a man, isn’t interested in men in any sexual or romantic way and says he only had any sexual experience with a man once. It was a stunt. Plain and simple.
You will defend and support any dude who doesn’t identify as gay. I mean, not that we didn’t already know this.
nitejonboy
HAHAHAHA!!!
BigG
See? All these bisexual bullshitters just trying to help their career. Bisexuals wonder why they get such flack. It’s because they aren’t bi. They lean towards one more than the other. This gender fluid bs is ridiculous.
Donston
Yes, it is true that most bi/fluid/queer/pan identifying and behaving men have sexual attractions that lean greatly towards some direction, and if they persistently indulge bi behavior their instincts and behaviors are often driven by many other factors beyond inherent sexual attractions. But there are some exceptions. And besides, it’s very unlikely Aaron is bi in any shape or form.
Keith
He’s not gay. He’s trying to re: start a dead career by getting lots of free press and hopefully a following. IF he was gay, he’d be MUSICAL. Nice try – give the boy a fail.
Donston
What makes this both really hilarious and sad is that Aaron (and/or “his people”) didn’t even have enough sense to play the long game. In a month he went from a very earnest coming out tweet (where he quoted Boy George of all people), giving very vague interviews about his sexual attractions, sexual behaviors, romantic instincts and desire and performing at gay clubs to saying that he isn’t so sure about having sexual attractions to men, that he is not interested in men in any sexual or romantic way and that his supposed hook up with a guy was a one time thing. This wasn’t even enough time for his “fluidity” to kick into another gear or some other nonsense. Whoever came up with this stunt executed it horribly as fvck. I still wish the dude physical and mental health though.
Finally, these quotes are from days ago. Queerty is forever behind.
Jaxton
Women can be very homophobic. They hide their homophobia until male bisexuality comes into the picture, and then their homophobic claws come out .
This is designed to stigmatize men who have the ability to swing both ways, thus pushing male bisexuality out of the mainstream and into the shadows.
These attitudes are designed to maintain female privilege and associated girl power.
Note that “bisexual” women are often the most homophobic in their attitudes. These women manufacture their bisexuality to please men, and see male bisexuality as a threat that exposes their sexual charade as women.
I believe that Aaron has become a victim of homophobic women.
Donston
Dude, you’re just copying and pasting your BS at this point. When Aaron said he was bi there were a sh*t ton of women all over social media saying they’d date him and that they find him hot (despite him looking like a skeleton nowadays). Most of his support came from women. His ex flat-out said Aaron lied about bisexuality having anything to do with their break-up. The dude had a break up song ready to perform not even a week after he supposedly broke up with his gf. And now, he’s completely flipping things he just said a few weeks ago. All the evidence points to Aaron being manipulative and full of sh*t and using “coming out” and sexual identity for press. Your theory, as usual, holds no water.
Donston
Also, most bi identifying men say they get more slack from gay-identifying men than anyone else. And around 80% of non hetero and non homo identifying men are in relationships with women. So, clearly there are plenty of women who want them. Just give it up already.
Herman75
OK girls. Let it go and check dear (….checking on his name one more time…) dear Aaron off your list.
Prax07
He’s not really bi. He’s bi to the extent he wants gay men to fawn over him and boost his career. Other than that…not so much. On to the next newly out “bi” male celebrity.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
The day when male bisexuality (fake or otherwise) can be used for career advancement will be a fücking MASSIVE advancement in LGBT acceptance. .
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
The more and broader range of people out the better. If it creates a climate we’re the so-called “heteroflexible” and Kinsey 1s & 2s (who knows the potential size of that demographic)! are casually opening up about their same-sex attraction, without the standard recriminations from BOTH sides, the better it will be in the long term for homosexual acceptance generally. Well ALL receive the trickle down effect (no, not your throat) Sorry boys, but that includes bi guys who prefer women — there’s a thing call a scale for a reason.
Plus it’s a good signal to send out that bi guys are in fact not incapable being monogamous with one sex.
Put please continue with the hysteria
Donston
Why do you try to act stupid and naive when we both know you’re not? You seem to love defending men who aren’t straight forward about their orientations or motivations or who seem to flat-out lie about these things but who also love to talk about their sexuality for publicity reasons. And depending on the Kinsey scale is lame, since that has been proven to be a wonky way to decipher orientation decades ago. Sexuality is much more complex than a scale.
From the beginning if he had just said something akin to: “I have some slight attraction to men but I only indulged that attraction once and I only want to date and have sex with women” then there would be no problem. Who knows if that would have even been true, but he didn’t do that because that wasn’t gonna get him the press he was looking and the lgbt attention he was looking for. His initial tweet could be interpreted as nothing other than someone saying that they had substantial attraction to the same gender and was very open to dating to same gender. His follow up interview could only be deciphered the same way. Never mind the performing at a gay club a mere couple days after coming out and having a new break-up song ready despite supposedly breaking up just a week prior and blaming your supposed bisexuality on for that break up despite that being an unlikely reason. And in a mere few weeks that first script of his completely changed. Of course, we don’t know what his exact sexual attractions or behaviors are, and you can claim people are being “hysterical” all you want (I’m guessing that’s a favorite word of yours). The manipulation and publicity stunt aspects of this are apparent in the details and how it all unfolded. There’s no way around that. Anyone who isn’t trying to act dumb can see that.
Also, male bisexuality/male sexual ambiguity has been used as a way to get press or to drum up interest in someone’s music for many decades. It’s not some new strategy. What’s also not new are heterosexuals, hetero-“flexible” men, hetero-dominant men, closet cases and homo men who don’t want to live the “gay lifestyle” using openly gay and homo-dominant men for a quick buck or to elevate their status. None of this is anything new. No need to pretend that it is. And once again, since around 80% of bi-identifying men are with women it’s obvious they have no problem getting them. But nice of you to be most concerned about that.
Donston
Furthermore, your world where men admitting to having some slight attraction to men or admitting to hooking up with a guy once or twice alleviates homophobia and makes it easier to homo and homo-dominant men to come out and gain inward and outward comfort- yeah, that’s not really working. It never has. That’s helping those guys “progress”, not ours. And that’s not at all what Aaron actually did. Also, didn’t you say you were opposed to my homo-dominant identity, but now you’re bringing out scales and sh*t? Pick a side dude.
niles
Kinda sad to use the gay community to offer up a mildly controversial “confession” in order to restart your career. Now, he’s backpedalling so fast he should be in the Olympics. It also seems he’s implying that his experience at age 17 is somehow to blame for all of his subsequent troubles.
tdh1980
No great loss as far as I’m concerned. Any woman crazy enough to want him can have that natural disaster.
DCguy
What a shock, the guy gets busted for possession and DUI, he needs cash so makes a phony announcement and then goes and tours a few gay clubs to get some cash together for his defense.
Roan
“Sorry fellas” as in did anyone want him to begin with?
surreal33
Mr Carter is not the problem. The problem is we continue to inadvertently support douche bags like Aaron Carter and Colton Haynes. The media keeps clowns like this semi-relevant by constant coverage of their infantile exploits. Aaron Carter and his ilk don’t help nor support the gay community. They use the gay community as a last resort to save failing careers. This can only happen if we allow pandering to the gay community.
Jaxton
But isn’t the gay media enabling this?
Donston
I’m actually kinda cool with Colton. Yes, the ad-nauseam coverage of him on sites like these grates to some degree. Yes, he’s a pretty boy narcissist. Yes, he waited til his acting career was almost null and void to come out. Yes, he panders and has definitely over-used his orientation and looks to try and stay relevant. And yes, there’s a pretty good chance if he had a more substantial career he never would have outed himself or at least would have pulled a Luke Evans and chose to simply talk much about it at all. However, he has been very open with his struggles with anxiety (which is quite common for closeted people or men who struggle to gain a true level of true self-acceptance and self-comfort) as well as his troubles with his family. His willingness to be legitimately honest gives him some slight leeway.
The crux of the problem is everyone is always looking to be “represented”. For many, it doesn’t matter about the intentions, the motivations, how much public manipulation is going on, how much behavior or identity might be driven by sociology, fetish, narcissism, megalomania, money, internalized homophobia, etc, nor does it matter if someone is being truly honest about who they are. As long as someone is willing to admit to being “part of the club”, to whatever extent, plenty will have open arms even if there are bad signs all around. If there were more established out actors, musicians, athletes, politicians, etc who also seemed to lack shame and were very straight-forward and honest about themselves then you wouldn’t get much out using sexual identity and/or behavior to boost your career or social media followers. Nor would being closeted be much of an issue. But we don’t live in that world.