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aceswild On May 05, 2006




Tucson, Arizona
#1New Post! Nov 25, 2005 @ 03:06:09
I found this article online saying that Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day has been quoted as being biesexual. They were once on tour with Pansy Devision, an openly gay punk band. I found this article from The Advocate. I had no idea of this b4 now.

Coming Clean
Woodstock ?94 star Billie Joe of Green Day goes triple platinum and lines up with the pansies
By Judy Wieder

......While punk thrives on thumbing its nose at convention, the surprisingly serious Armstrong insists that bringing Pansy Division on the road with Green Day was not just a gimmick to shock fans. Before their switch to a mainstream label (Reprise), Green Day did two albums for Lookout Records, the same label Pansy Division is on. They also share with Pansy Division a commitment to what they call personal politics.

?I think Pansy Division is the kind of band that saves people?s lives,? Armstrong says matter-of-factly. ?They?re catchy, and they?re really educational. They?re honest about their sexuality, and that saves lives.?

?Sometimes it gets kind of ugly because there are a lot of ignorant dorks out in the audience, and they start throwing s*** at Pansy Division,? he continues, discussing the tour. ?I was kind of discouraged watching the audience flip them off. I kept thinking, s***, these are the people who are here to see us??

Armstrong?s response was to stop his band?s show in the middle of a set and address the audience. ?You?re all f***ing pathetic,? he told them. ?There you were, three songs into their set, really enjoying them. And then you figured out from their lyrical content that they?re gay, and now you?re afraid of them. And that?s what it is, you know. You?re afraid of them. Well, I hope you all know that Pansy Division is the future of rock ?n? roll.?

For Armstrong, who grew up with band member Dirnt in a suburb of Berkeley called Rodeo, homosexuality is neither a new subject nor one he must defend himself against. ?I think I?ve always been bisexual,? Armstrong says simply. ?I mean, it?s something that I?ve always been interested in. I think everybody kind of fantasizes about the same sex. I think people are born bisexual, and it?s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of Oh, I can?t. They say it?s taboo. It?s ingrained in our heads that it?s bad, when it?s not bad at all. It?s a very beautiful thing.?

When asked whether this beautiful thing is something he?s ever actually acted on, the recently married (and about to become a father) Armstrong smiles. ?I think mostly it?s been kept in my head,? he says. ?I?ve never really had a relationship with another man. But it is something that comes up as a struggle in me. It especially came up when I was about 16 or 17. In high school people think you have to be so macho. People get attacked just because someone insinuates something about their sexuality. I think that?s gruesome.?

Armstrong?s struggle with his sexuality isn?t something that has gone unnoticed by his fans. ?I?ve gotten letters because I wrote this song on Dookie called ?Coming Clean? about coming out,? he says with the same ease that Kurt Cobain used to show while talking about his song ?All Apologies? and the now-famous lyric from it: ?What else should I say/ Everyone is gay.?.........
lunatic_on_a_megaphone On April 23, 2010




, California
#2New Post! Nov 25, 2005 @ 04:42:19
What you didn't know that?

My lesbian friend told me that last year.
kahuna On January 10, 2006

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#3New Post! Nov 25, 2005 @ 13:12:03
lol you'd be surprised how many bi-sexual musicians there are
garfunkel On December 29, 2008
my beautiful rescue


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Sydney, Australia
#4New Post! Nov 25, 2005 @ 13:18:51
at their concerts he pulls out a guy from the audience and pash's him, well he did it at the sydney one anyway
sean_de_foot_longe On May 02, 2016




I'm behind you!!, United Kingd
#5New Post! Nov 25, 2005 @ 13:19:48
this is all news to me!
abraxas69 On January 27, 2006




Miami, Florida
#6New Post! Jan 27, 2006 @ 21:11:51
I think I read it in a magazine, but I remember reading an interview with Billie and him saying he was bi.
steven On September 10, 2008




, United Kingdom
#9New Post! Feb 16, 2006 @ 13:51:49
If my boy friend is a homo sexual, does it mean that I am ? Can I just be homo-sexual at thye weekend ?
havingablast On September 02, 2006




, Maine
#11New Post! May 08, 2006 @ 22:53:38
I wish more actors and actresses and musicians would come out (*coughHaydenChristiansencough*). It was the song 'Coming Clean' that finally convinced me to come out as bisexual last October (after four years in the closet. Alright, I was only sixteen, but now I can truly say seventeen and coming clean ).

As a fellow musician (drummer, piano and guitar) I really respect Billie Joe (and Pansy Division- if you don't know them, you should) for their courage.
macky On May 24, 2007

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Thomastown, Ireland
#13New Post! May 08, 2006 @ 22:58:53
who cares! 8)
havingablast On September 02, 2006




, Maine
#14New Post! May 08, 2006 @ 23:07:42
He actually makes a point to kiss a guy at every show, I read. He didn't do one in Massachussetts, as far as I know (last April)

He actually said in a magazine that Adie's the only woman he could ever love, and they almost never even got together, because she was engaged when they re-met.

Getting back onto the gay/bisexual topic, I seriously think that Tre is somewhere in that spectrum. He's been quoted saying he tends to develope crushes on teenage boys... (I just hope he doesn't become another Michael Jackson, who he is friends with, oddly enough)
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