Here’s the thing: If you’re going to willingly pursue the limelight as the world’s most popular boy band pop act, you’re going to have to be cool with some people thinking you’re gay.
It’s just inevitable.
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And if you’re One Direction, constantly egging these rumors on in the media, it’s pretty foolish to think they’ll just go away after you’ve had your laugh.
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But according to a recent interview with ex-bandmate Zayn Malik, that self-inflicted gossip is, like, really hard.
Here’s what he had to say:
“There’s no secret relationships going on with any of the band members,” he says. “It’s not funny, and it still continues to be quite hard for them.
“They won’t naturally go put their arm around each other because they’re conscious of this thing that’s going on, which is not even true. They won’t do that natural behaviour.”
He adds: “But it’s just the way the fans are. They’re so passionate, and once they get their head around an idea, that’s the way it is regardless of anything. If it wasn’t for that passionate, like, almost obsession, then we wouldn’t have the success that we had.”
It’s not funny, ok?
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They’re just victims here.
This kiss? Doesn’t seem so gay:
And this one? It’s as straight as they come:
Not to mention these:
Again, it’s not funny.
Can’t you see these masc boy band bros have suffered enough?
RIGay
Your 15 minutes of fame really really really need to end.
CWM85
It’s not true, there are no gays in that group or any other boy band. They aren’t funny, its insulting to them and their female fans and straight male fans! Enough! 😀
Derek Perron
They’re neither funny nor hot
cakebytheocean
I’m sorry but the idea of all of them railing Louis is too good to pass up.
Markajv
Men from the U.K. are much more in tune with themselves than the US. I am a huge fan of British Humor (A lot of straight guys dressed as woman and funny as hell) and I watch a lot of british Vloggers on YouTube, all of whom are straight. They hug, they kiss on the cheek, they play stupid pranks on each other. They are not so uptight because they could care less what people think of them. There is a very big “Gay” community on YouTube and there is not one bit of animosity. Straight, Gay, Men, Women collab all the time. Tyler Oakley, one of the biggest YouTubers does collabs all the time with straight guys and they hug and touch each other but it’s not sexual. In this day and age there should not be any hangups about this. If someone has an issue, Fuck them! Live your life, not the picture someone has portrayed of you.
barkomatic
It always seemed that Zayn Malik had a touch of homophobia. It’s 2015 and there are successful straight actors who are *deliberately* doing gay things to get attention and start a conversation. I don’t think it’s hurting them one bit–but statements like this most definitely do.
calista
@CWM85: Really? Ever heard of Lance Bass? Or Jonathan Knight? or Jaymi Hensley? There is usually a “gay one”. 1D just won the lottery to make up for the few who don’t 🙂
Xzamilio
I mean, if there was ever one in that group I’d want to be gay, it’d be Zayn… with Harry a distant second. I mean, really, the only reason they have a gay male following is because they look like twinks… skinny shiny little twinks that big butch mascs and fems would want to break in half and pump full of… praise. Sticky white praise!!
bert110759
Zayn Malik is a muslim.
Homosexuality is NOT accepted in this religion.
Pistolo
I’m so tired of these straight men who whore themselves out to us BIG TIME, taking our money and then they end up being just straight & dull and fussy about being perceived as gay. Don’t waste my time, go hit up the basic bitches for money and attention. Nobody forced you to touch eachothers dicks and do all this homoerotic crap….I’m GAY and I don’t even do that with my friends.
Also, what Zayn is saying is in reference to Louis & Harry….didn’t Louis just announce he’s going to be a father? You f-ked a girl enough to knock her up and gay rumors still devastate you? Sounds like there’s some pretty deep-seated issues at play if that’s the case, you’d have to be way insecure with yourself to fear such things at this point.
Xzamilio
@bert110759: It’s not accepted in ANY of the Abrahamic religions… but aren’t we happy that so many modern Jews/Christians/Muslims have morally evolved beyond their tenets? I know I am.
Avery Alvarez
@Xzamilio: Zayn is definitely the hottest one, but he seems a bit full of himself.