Celebrities Accused Of Queerbaiting

When celebrities maintain their sexuality ambiguous or take part in overtly queer situations like kissing their male backup dancer — a query is usually raised: “Are they queerbaiting?”

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One of many largest celebrities dominating the dialog round queerbaiting is Harry Types. Harry is thought for his inclusive music, androgynous fashion, and avoidance of labeling his sexuality.

Harry is essentially the most vocal in opposition to these accusations, stating in an interview with The Guardian, “Am I sprinkling in nuggets of sexual ambiguity to try to be extra attention-grabbing? No.”

“By way of how I wanna costume and what the album sleeve’s gonna be, I are likely to make selections when it comes to collaborators I need to work with,” Harry continued. “I would like issues to look a sure method. Not as a result of it makes me look homosexual, or it makes me look straight, or it makes me look bisexual, however as a result of I believe it appears cool.”

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When Nick Jonas went solo, he was criticized for queerbaiting after continuously courting the LGBTQ+ neighborhood at homosexual bars and advantages surrounding his music releases.

Along with his public appearances, Nick appeared in tv exhibits like The Kingdom and Scream Queens portraying homosexual characters.

Nick responded to claims of queerbaiting by saying, “Everybody’s entitled to their very own opinion. I believe it is unlucky that some folks must discover a unfavourable in each scenario. Clearly, my coronary heart is in the correct place, and greater than something, if they only checked out my life and my homosexual buddies and the genuine nature of the place my coronary heart is, they’d simply see that they are sort of ignorant.”

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When Tyler Posey spoke about his sexual fluidity on his OnlyFans account, it sparked hostile reactions. An individual claimed he was a “gay-baiter” — solely pretending to be homosexual to generate profits.

Tyler clapped again on the allegations, saying that he is solely attempting to be sincere about himself. He added that the feedback are unusual and merciless, which impressed his consciousness of cyberbullying.

Tyler’s girlfriend, alt-rock singer Phem, who can be queer, helped him understand his sexuality. “She’s helped me understand that I match beneath the queer umbrella and that I’m sexually fluid, I assume. No, not ‘I assume.’ I don’t need anybody to take this and be like: ‘Nicely, he was sort of wishy-washy about it.'”

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Billie Eilish was accused of queerbaiting when she launched a music video for “Misplaced Trigger,” a single from her sophomore album. The music video included suggestive interactions with partially dressed ladies.

Billie promoted the video on Instagram, her caption studying, “i really like women.” This publish added gas to the fireplace of the queerbaiting dialog.

In an interview with Elle journal, she stated to everybody discussing her sexuality, “Like, oh yeah, that is everybody else’s enterprise, proper? No. The place’s that power with males? I simply needed to make a track as soon as, after which I stored making songs. I by no means stated, ‘Hey, take note of my life.’ All my buddies know I do not wanna see any of [the negative chatter]. When folks ship me one thing imply, it hurts my soul.”

Based on Complicated, folks additionally accused Ariana of exploiting the queer neighborhood when she headlined the Manchester Pleasure competition in 2019 and doubled ticket costs.

Ariana swiftly responded, “The LGBTQ+ neighborhood has been so particular to me and supportive all through my whole profession. The relationships I’ve with my LGBTQ+ followers, buddies, and household make me so so pleased.” She claimed the ticket costs had been the venue’s determination and out of her management.

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When Normani launched “Wild Facet,” that includes Cardi B, the artists had been accused of queerbaiting for holding one another whereas nude within the music video.

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Charlie Puth was referred to as out for queerbaiting after he posted a TikTok video purposefully misusing a filter about homosexual intercourse that labeled whether or not he was a prime or a backside.

Folks additionally criticized Charlie for his sexually charged social media engagement, together with innuendos and partially nude images, and the queer ambiguity of his newest single with Joonkook of BTS, “Left and Proper.”

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James Franco appeared in a number of roles as a homosexual man, and casually joked that he was a “little homosexual” throughout an interview. Critics speculated that he used homoeroticism for business achieve.

In response to the hypothesis, James did an interview with 429 Journal the place “Straight James Franco” spoke to “Homosexual James Franco.” He stated, “Nicely, I wish to suppose that I am homosexual in my artwork and straight in my life. Though, I am additionally homosexual in my life as much as the purpose of intercourse, after which you might say I am straight. So I assume it relies on the way you outline homosexual. If it means whom you may have intercourse with, I assume I am straight.”

James’ present sexual misconduct accusations continued the dialog about whether or not he makes use of his “queerness” to divert consideration away from his extra problematic habits.

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Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova, professionally often known as t.A.T.u, had been as soon as thought-about homosexual icons for his or her unabashed music movies. However, within the 2003 documentary, Screaming for Extra, the duo revealed they’re straight and had been marketed as queer ladies for his or her musical act.

“That was my position. I by no means was a lesbian. I by no means was drawn to a woman. I by no means had that,” Katina informed the Each day Beast when questioned. “I had some ideas as a result of I used to be pretending to be who I wasn’t. After which, I used to be occupied with it quite a bit, ‘Why am I involved?’ There are such a lot of actors taking part in completely different roles in films. I’ll simply take a look at it as a film. If I’m serving to folks with this position, then why not.”

On a Russian TV present, Yulia spoke out in opposition to the homosexual neighborhood, saying that if her son had been homosexual, she would condemn him. “I consider that an actual man have to be an actual man. God created man for procreation, it’s the nature. The person for me is the help, the power of… I will not settle for [a] homosexual son.”

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Lastly, Madonna confronted criticism after she posted a remark in response to Lil Nas X’s BET Award efficiency the place he kissed his male backup dancer.

Madonna posted a side-by-side image on her Instagram story of herself kissing Britney Spears (a second from 2003 that many thought-about queerbaiting) and an image of Lil Nas X’s efficiency together with the hashtag: “#DidItFirst.”