Billie Joe Armstrong on coming out in the ’90s & being considered a bisexual icon

I like it. I think it’s f***ing cool that someone calls me a bisexual icon. I’ve seen that before. I’m like, ‘F***, yeah!’

Being a Gen X-er, I feel like there was a seed that got planted where it was the era in the ’90s 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.

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.

But I just look at sexuality: It’s not one way or the other. And if anybody ever tries to say that, I don’t think they’re really being honest with themselves.Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong speaking to People about being a bisexual icon and coming out in the ’90s.