Billie Joe Armstrong on Sexuality: MasterpostĀ
We made this masterpost of Billieās quotes on sexuality since anons were requesting them at the time, but it wasnāt actually all accurate. This is a very personal subject and itās important that fans respect it, so hereās a new one with checked sources and some additions.
The Advocate, 1995 (x) (x): āI think Iāve always been bisexual. I mean, itās something that Iāve always been interested in. I think everybody kind of fantasizes about the same sex. I think people are born bisexual, and itās just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of āoh, I canāt.ā They say itās taboo. Itās ingrained in our heads that itās bad, when itās not bad at all. Itās a very beautiful thing. I think mostly itās been kept in my head. Iāve never really had a relationship with another man.ā
SPIN Magazine, 1997 (x): āComing Clean is a song about being bi-curious, having doubts about my sexuality, wondering whether or not I was gay.ā
Out Magazine, 2010 (x): (Fans still fill message board threads with fights about just how gay Armstrong actually is.) āThe fact that itās an issue is kind of phobic within itself. At some point, you gotta think, this should be something thatās just accepted.ā
After almost 16 years of monogamous marriage to the same woman, he says heās not sure if heād still call himself bisexual. āBut Iād never say that Iām not,ā he quickly adds. āI donāt really classify myself as anything.ā
āMy wife Googled āBillie Joe Armstrong bisexual.ā Sheās like āYeah, there are about 20 pictures of you kissing different guys.ā Thereās one side of me that thinks of it like the old Bugs Bunny cartoons, where he plants one on Elmer J. Fudd. But thereās that other side of it, like, āwow, youāre doing that in an arena somewhere like Hartford, Connecticut.ā It resonates in different ways.ā
Rolling Stone, 2016 (x): Why did you turn the gender around in that songās third verse? The whore is a āheā.
āI wanted to challenge myself and whoever the listener might be. Itās also looking at the world and saying, āItās not as black and white as you think. This isnāt your grandfatherās prostitute ā or maybe it was.ā This record touches on bisexuality a lot.ā
That is especially true in āComing Clean.ā It starts with the line, āSeventeen and strung out on confusion.ā Were you 17 when you wrote it?
āNo. It could be any number. It was a song about questioning myself. There are these other feelings you may have about the same sex, the opposite sex, especially being in Berkeley and San Francisco then. People are acting out what theyāre feeling: gay, bisexual, transgender, whatever. And that opens up something in society that becomes more acceptable. Now we have gay marriage becoming recognized.ā
Did you come to any conclusions, through that song, about your sexuality? Or were you just interested in the questions?
āI think itās a process of discovery. I was willing to try anything [laughs]. But I got married to Adrienne a year after that.ā
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