In 2015 (soon to be â16), taking on the role of âboy band memberâ basically guarantees you a full career (however long it may last) of fending off gay rumors.
Some, like Nick Jonas, handle them with grace and charm, while others (One DirectionâŚahem...) consistently fail to see the big picture.
But some of these rumors have to be true â wouldnât you think?
Well one boybander who we admittedly have never heard of â Taytay Stahrz (yes, Taytay Starhz) â has either decided to cut off a rumor at the pass or hoped coming out might score his band â Franklin Lake â some much-needed publicity by coming out as bisexual.
Either way, welcome to the club Taytay! (Can we call you Taytay?)
âI am bisexual, I am not defined by my sexuality, I love snogging women and proud of who I am and so are my family,â he told the Daily Record after photos surfaced of a likely set-up kiss between him and radio personality Zoe Bell.
Well, we canât say we quite understand who you are or what that whole kiss was about, but weâre happy youâre living life openly!
John Kuehnle
I thought only the girls did that, and I don’t mean only girls are bisexual, to clear that up right away.
Craig Houghton
The one of the four who isn’t the uglier one, the sexier one, or the one with facial hair….that fourth one with the pouty lower lip and great cheekbones.
William Meyer
Timothy Grover
Who?!
Neil Strangwick
Who cares?
Does he need publicity that badly?
Eddie Poole-Boccio
Who cares who is bi or gay. This needs to stop being news and start being the norm! GUESS WHAT!! I’M GAY!! WHERE IS MY NEWS ARTICLE?!
Alan Hubbard
……and who really cares???
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
I very much doubt that mega cringe kiss was a set-up between him and the Britain’s favourite middle-aged trendy mum AKA Mrs Fat Boy Slim… not after she cheated on poor hubby the last time
Dennis Crowley
Who?
Brian
“Bisexual” is such an awful term because it suggests that you are two sexes. Nobody can be two sexes. The other reason why it’s an awful term is that it suggests that your sexuality is split right down the middle, with an equal distribution towards the different sexes.
In my experience knowing “bisexual” men, it’s almost always been the case that their feelings of sexual desire are weighted considerably more towards one sex than the other.
For instance, my first romance was with a guy who would stare at women in the street all the time. We went to a restaurant back in the late 1980’s and he spent the whole time looking at the waitress.
Avery Alvarez
His name is “Taytay Stahrz”?
and the band name is “Franklin Lake”?
Ahahahahahaha Good, good. I’m amused.
Congrats on the pr stunting, errr, coming out.
RIGay
Who?
Mike Muniz
really bisexual or “my agent told me to do this” bisexual?
onthemark
I don’t know what “snogging” is but it sounds like something you do when you have really allergies!
SebastiĂĄn Gaspar
If it’s not Harry Styles then I don’t care Ă°???
Kristopher Stryker
Never heard of this band
onthemark
@onthemark: …really bad allergies!
Brian
Men don’t do pretend-bisexual like women do. Women do it because they are rewarded by men – just look at how lesbian scenes are common in adult movies watched by straight-identifying guys. The idea is that the woman will do a woman and then turn to the man – it fulfills his sleazy fantasy.
When men say they are bisexual, nobody rewards them for it. He is saying it because he’s genuinely bisexul. Unlike women, he’s not doing it for the benefit of a third party he doesn’t have any sexual feelings for.
Sansacro
@Brian: In my experience, for what it’s worth, most men who are actually bisexual publicly identify as straight, because they can and there’s more cultural power as a self-identified straight man. But it seems younger, socially privileged guys are more comfortable exploring their sexual fluidity. Although there remains power in being a straight man in this world.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
Gay and bisexuals are the only people on earth “not defined by their sexuality”. Straight people wear their heterosexuality like a badge of honor. If you claim to be proud of who you are, mean it.
Glenn Eccles
BIG YAWN!! Who cares, really?!
Tom Gouzoules
If you suck a dick you are gay…
Tracy Pope
Never heard of him or the band until reading about this on gaystarnews the other day but good for him.
@Baba Booey Fafa Fooey: I don’t know who you are (I’ve not seen this moniker on Queerty before) but I like the name. Sums up my reaction to so many of the articles here!!
martinbakman
Taytay Stahrz is bi??? Score one for Queerty. Who knew? Good on you Taytay.
Whet Faartz
Wilton or stilton make a choice
SFHandyman
There aren’t even a thousand google hits on this guy. Maybe check to see if a person has any notoriety before writing up a gossip post about him.
I usually hate when people post this but really – Why is this news?
Keith Bunij
It’s 2015…. Who cares.
Brian
@Sansacro: You know, I tend to agree with you when you say that most bisexual men publicly identify as straight. Keep in mind that it’s much easier for a man to identify as straight. One of the reasons for this is that women reward men who identify as straight but shun men who identify as bisexual.
Bisexual men who identify as gay tend to be those who have developed a circle of gay-identifying friends with whom they socialize.
Giancarlo85
@Brian: you are one of the most ridiculously bigoted people on this site and you prove time and time again.
@Brian: Stop with this identifying crap. Sexuality isn’t a choice or a light switch. You know nothing about gay or bi people. I doubt you are even gay yourself.
Uhh as far as this article… Mick Jagger lol…
ugenegod
Only his hair is gay.
Masc Pride
He’s not defined by his sexuality yet he’s very publicly defining himself as bisexual? I guess that’s the type of logic one should expect from a guy that calls himself Taytay Stahrz.
@ugenegod: His eyebrows, earrings and clothes seem pretty gay too.
Adam Griffith
the last time I heard something like this, it turned out to be Lance Bass. What a disappointment.
Giancarlo85
@Masc Pride: Love your endless hounding and stereotypes of what “looks” gay. I guess he isn’t “manly enough” like your fake self.
Stache
@ugenegod: Have you seen those eyebrows?
zooby
@Eddie Poole-Boccio: @Keith Bunij: Who cares? I bet you’re both closeted and unhappy. How sad – the truth always comes out anyway, cowards.
And Eddie – you didn’t get your article because you aren’t in the entertainment world.
Curtispsf
In Franklin Lane there is a barber showing photographs
Of every head he’s had the pleasure to know
And all the people that come and go
Stop and say hello
On the corner is a banker with a motorcar
The little children laugh at him behind his back
And the banker never wears a mack
In the pouring rain, very strange
Franklin Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit, and meanwhile back
alphacentauri
I have no idea as I do not follow those “bands” or listen to any of what they or their production team claims is music?
dean089
He “loves snogging women” but, um, dude, so do heterosexual men. If a person were bisexual wouldn’t they also include men in their “snogging?”
TSizzle
@Tom Gouzoules:
Um no, Im bisexual with a boyfriend. Im am NOT gay because I am NOT attracted solely to men, but to both men and women.
John V. Hilton
As Woody Allen said, “Twice as many chances.”
Brian
@Giancarlo85:I will have you to know that I think carefully before I post. I’m restrained, basically. I could be abusive and monstrous in my criticism of you but I’m simply not inclined to fritter away my glucose nor the bandwidth of Queerty.
Oh, and I will keep saying gay-identifying and straight-identifying. If that irks, so be it.
Giancarlo85
@Brian: Thinking is something that you stopped doing years ago. You really know nothing about gay or bi people.
There is no such thing as “gay identifying” or “straight identifying”. That infers choice. You think sexuality is a choice. You don’t have the slightest bit of evidence for anything you say. So as George Carlin once say “blow it out your ass”.
Giancarlo85
Correction: So as George Carlin once said… “blow it out your ass”…
https://youtu.be/vlDpDr2gQYI
Brian
@Giancarlo85: All acts of identification are due to choice. You better believe it, sweetheart.
Giancarlo85
@Brian: Except I never identified as gay. I always was gay by nature. This isn’t a choice. This is where you end up falling apart completely. And you don’t tell me “I better believe” anything. I don’t believe anything you say because it is all a load of pretentious misogynistic and homophobic hatred.
You have a lot of growing up to do. Starting with changing your 1950s era viewpoints.
onthemark
@Giancarlo85: But don’t you identify as trans, now? Recently you suddenly started identifying as trans. Make up your mind. đ
Masc Pride
@onthemark: He/she will be whatever will allow him/her to argue with everyone on here day in and day out!
Giancarlo85
Mask pride identifies as an extreme closet case.
Trans does not refer to sexual orientation. Gay is referring to sexual orientation. Seriously how old are we on here? Thirteen years old? Why don’t you make up your own mind… Are you ignoring me or not?
ShowMeGuy
At least now we’ve heard of Franklin Lake……and I still don’t care.
onthemark
@Giancarlo85: I never said I would ignore you. You declared that you were ignoring ME. Nice try, switching it around!
Giancarlo85
Again, trans is NOT a sexual orientation. Clear enough?