Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong kisses a guy – SO WHAT!!

Green Day Front Man Bille Joe Armstrong

Green Day’s front man Billie Joe Armstrong was in Manchester (England) for a concert yesterday and like he has done countless times at his concerts, he likes to invite people up on stage – both men and women.   At this particular concert, the lucky guy who came on stage got a nice big wet one from Billie Joe.  If you are Green Day fan (either man or woman), I bet you wouldn’t mind getting that kiss.   For some reason, the Manchester concert picture has been floating around the internet like it was something new or strange from Armstrong.   HELLO – the man has said he was bisexual many many years ago. Here is what I found from an interview with MTV Germany back in 2005:

“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.”

Although he doesn’t talk about sleeping with men, Armstrong does admit that homosexuality has definitely touched his life in very personal ways. “I have an ex-girlfriend who was bisexual,” he says softly. “I think now that she was really a lesbian. And that’s find by me. I mean, we had a relationship that was just me and her, total dedication and devotion. I’m very monogamous. At that time it wouldn’t have mattered whether she was with a man or a woman–I would have been jealous!”

One lucky Green Day fan gets a kiss

What we should really be getting upset about is the clothing.  WTF is up with those jeans – the gay guys jeans are so tight – it hurts just to look at him (LOL).

Thomas (writing for Click Click Expose Gay Entertainment Media).  Image from TMZ – quote from MTV Germany, 2005.