Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong: “It’s fucking cool that someone calls me a bisexual icon”
nme.comGreen Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong has said it’s “fucking cool” that people see him as “a bisexual icon”.Armstrong has long been outspoken on homophobia, transphobia and other forms of discrimination, recently saying that the moral panic over trans issues is “fucking close-minded”.Speaking to PEOPLE, Armstrong – who first came out as bisexual in 1995 – said: “I think it’s fucking cool that someone calls me a bisexual icon.
I’ve seen that before. I’m like, ‘Fuck, yeah!’”.He added: “Being a Gen X-er, I feel like there was a seed that got planted where it was the era in the 1990s that we came up, where men were discovering more of being with other men and being more bisexual, and coming out with that, whether it was someone like Kurt Cobain or what I was saying.“It’s way more complex now, as far as sexuality.
You’re like, ‘Wow, we’ve really come a long way.’ Even though it’s still kind of looked at as being taboo, I think people now are a lot more brave than they’ve ever been.
I think people are way more open now”.Discussing his relationship with his wife in relation to his sexuality, he added: “Sexuality is always so much more than what the standard, nuclear-family type of way of looking at things.“But I have been married — there’s this other side of me that’s very conventional when it comes to my 30-year marriage to my wife.
