Armstrong has also worked to end the stereotypes of a “promiscous bisexual,” noting that “when it comes to sex, there are parts of me that are very shy and conservative.”
Jason Mraz
“I’ve had experiences with men, even while I was dating the woman who became my wife. It was like, ‘Wow, does that mean I am gay?’” the singer-songwriter told Billboard this year, at age 41. “And my wife laid it out for me. She calls it ‘two spirit,’ which is what the Native Americans call someone who can love both man and woman. I really like that.”
Two spirit is a term that Native Americans consider their own, meaning one who embodies both masculine and feminine identities, and some objected to Mraz using it. He later apologized for doing so and thanked commenters for the clarification. But Mraz continues to identify as bi and penned an open letter to the LGBTQ community that read:
Marlon Brando
Although we cannot forget that era in Last Tango in Paris, it is important to acknowledge that the Hollywood icon was bisexual.
“Homosexuality is so much in fashion it no longer makes news. Like a large number of men, I too have had homosexual experiences, and I am not ashamed. I have never paid much attention to what people think about me,” he told the press in 1976.
Leonard Bernstein
The composer behind West Side Story, Peter Pan, and On the Waterfront was open about his bisexuality in his later years, according to The New York Times. He was married to Felicia Montealegre, who wrote him in the 1950s, “You are a homosexual and may never change. . Let’s try and see what happens if you are free to do as you like dating sites for niche professionals, but without guilt and confession.”
After she had a mastectomy in the 1970s, they separated and he stopped being discreet about his relationships with men. However, as lung cancer was taking her life, Bernstein returned to his wife’s side.
Cary Grant
As one of Hollywood’s top leading men, Cary Grant was the guy every woman wanted. But some men had him too.
In his youth, Grant became involved with Orry-Kelly, who would go on to be one of the movies’ top costume designers. The fashionista, who created the clothes Ingrid Bergman wore in Casablanca and ong many others, wrote of his relationship with Grant in his memoir Women I’ve Undressed. It was published after both men had died and was the basis for the 2016 documentary film Women’s He’s Undressed.
Kelly wrote that he met Archibald Leach in 1925, when the latter was a struggling performer, before he changed his name to Cary Grant. Destitute, the actor moved in with Kelly in New York City, and according to Kelly, they became a couple. They lived together off and on for nine years. Grant also reportedly had a romance with actor Randolph Scott, with whom he shared a house in Los Angeles after both became stars. Grant was married five times to women; his fourth marriage, to actress Dyan Cannon, produced his only child, daughter Jennifer.
Pete Townshend
In a 1989 radio interview with Timothy White, Townshend made a statement that was taken as coming out as bi, referencing his 1980 album Empty Glass. On it, the song “Rough Boys” was a “coming out, an acknowledgment of the fact that I’d had a gay life, and that I understood what gay sex was about,” he said. Meanwhile, he was ) and later was married to musician Rachel Fuller. He later told Rolling Stone the comment was misunderstood and he did not considere himself fundamentally bisexual, but he had had “fleeting” sexual experiences with men.
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