Mike Taveira has been feeling very curious lately. In his new music video, the pansexual singer reveals the many layers to his complex sexuality.
“Curious,” which was released yesterday, depicts Taveira in a variety of, ahem, steamy situations with drag queens, cis gay men, cis straight women, non-binary lovers, and trans women.
“I never had a pansexual person to look up to,” he tells Billboard. “So I’m doing this for the people who need someone to look up to.”
The video also features some A-list LGBTQ talent, including RuPaul’s Drag Race alums Monét X Change and Sonique, trans model Arisce Wanzer, and actor George Todd McLachlan from Showtime’s Shameless.
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Josh447
Sure plays touchy-feely kissy a lot at the “women” but can only arm wrestle and wrestle with a guy. Do we have another tease boy looking for fame with a multisexual advertising campaign that he doesn’t fit?
Seems so as his Instagram has only women posing with him at least the several I saw without signing up. He lost me on that count. Gays hate liars.
It would seem in the day of progressive authenticity, he’s doing superficial liar, Carter style.
alfred
And yet his twitter account is that of a typical gay; Yassss this, ‘daddy’ that, typical gay talk and gay thirst traps….
Look just say you are pansexual, and that’s great. Explain what it is and why you feel like it applies to you. But I find it condescending what he said in the billboard interview – that many people could be pansexual if they ‘opened their minds’. It also makes the identity seem like a philosophical standpoint (and bordering on performative), rather than what it should be; I am sexually aroused my men, women and trans. Making it seem like its a ‘better’ way to be, or a ‘more open minded’ sexuality only makes me distrust your authenticity.
Sex is a base, animalistic desire at its core. So to try to link some sexual identities to positive or negative sense of ‘morality’, is wrong. while I’m sure that is not something Mike explicitly feels, much of who he (and most others) explain or infer from their label, seems to say it is.
I say this as a man who has probability slept with more woman than Mike. I have ‘opened’ my mind and tried (nearly) all of it. I considered myself bisexual for a number of years and was involved in a couple of bi organisations in the UK ( don’t live there anymore). Married to a woman, whom I genuinely loved, for 5 years. However put bluntly and simply I am essentially gay. You know, that took a lot of introspection and analysis of ego, to come to that conclusion.
So best of luck Mike. Hope the career flourishes; but be careful with he thinly veiled disdain or dismissal of older (ha only slightly- still early 30’s!) men who may have actually really thought of these things and lived similar experiences to you, but come to a different understanding of themselves and their sexuality. Its not a completion, there isn’t a right term or label. You just have to work through shame and ego. And if after all that you come to decide you are X Y Z, then awesome! But there is a lot of this current discourse that feels both preachy and simultaneously skin deep and doesn’t really address human sexuality (and MALE sexuality specifically)