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Singer Max Bemis comes out as “bi-ish” or “a straight guy who can also like boys”

Max Bemis, lead singer of the rock band Say Anything, just came out in an emotional nine-page letter to fans.

In the missive, Bemis opens up about his mental health struggles and his sexuality, which he describes as “bi-ish or queer or a straight guy who can also like boys.”

“I always talked or joked about it with my friends and found it to be blatantly clear I was,” he writes. “I was bullied for it and called a ‘f*g’ (without irony). This is, sadly, common.”

The 34-year-old rock-and-roller continues, “I’m not special. I even went so far as to tell people I was also attracted to guys repeatedly. They chalked it up to my bipolar sh*t, which was hurtful.”

Bemis describes most of his queer experiences as “limited and remain mostly emotional” and says he’s often felt people don’t take his sexuality seriously because he’s married to a woman.

“So yeah, I’m a queer, Jewish, Christian skeptic pseudo-anarchist with a belief in metaphysics and the application of ‘magical’ stuff. Woof,” he writes

Bemis also talked about Say Anything’s forthcoming album, Oliver Appropriate, which he says is “a critique of ‘new age masculinity” and which will be the band’s final album… probably.

“There will be no full U.S. tour to support the record or in the near future. I am done being a touring musician as my main profession,” Bemis writes. “Say Anything is retiring in the sense that Jay-Z did. It’s not an indefinite hiatus or a breakup because that’s impossible.”

by Anonymousreply 71November 26, 2018 5:45 PM

Not sure why it didn't post the link. I personally haven't heard of him but thought it was an interesting article. Even if I'm not a fan of people who don't use conventional labels.

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by Anonymousreply 1August 18, 2018 2:36 AM

It’s called “mostly straight,” or brosexual.

by Anonymousreply 2August 18, 2018 2:36 AM

Who?

by Anonymousreply 3August 18, 2018 2:38 AM

He's not cute, so I don't care.

by Anonymousreply 4August 18, 2018 2:40 AM

All that blather and convoluted language just to basically tell us that he likes cock? OK, Max, you're so special - can we touch you?

by Anonymousreply 5August 18, 2018 2:40 AM

Fat and ugly. Your services are not required, sir!

[quote]Say Anything is retiring in the sense that Jay-Z did

Oh, honey...

by Anonymousreply 6August 18, 2018 2:43 AM

So messy.

by Anonymousreply 7August 18, 2018 3:04 AM

I don't know but then again I didn't know Jason Mraz or Panic at the Disco! either.

by Anonymousreply 8August 18, 2018 6:33 AM

* I don't know him

by Anonymousreply 9August 18, 2018 6:39 AM

It was all so simple then, when you were gay or straight. But now the young's are too special to have to accept such straightforwardness.

I hope their inner turmoil makes their day-to-day life hell.

by Anonymousreply 10August 18, 2018 6:53 AM

R4 I disagree. Certainly his looks are variable, and he’s prently a tad too over-upholstered for my liking , but slimmer, like pic below, he’s not too far off my bloke-next-door ideal. Personally, I prefer that slightly carb-faced/Str8-face over ya typical pinched-faced cookie sniffer, sculpted brows fembot.

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by Anonymousreply 11August 18, 2018 9:43 AM

Presently*

by Anonymousreply 12August 18, 2018 9:44 AM

He looks like a real man with the predator alpha wolf in his eyes (in this case probably due to mental illness, alas)

by Anonymousreply 13August 18, 2018 9:54 AM

He used to be kinda cute.

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by Anonymousreply 14August 18, 2018 9:56 AM

nine pages letter?? wtf

by Anonymousreply 15August 18, 2018 9:57 AM

The things I would do...

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by Anonymousreply 16August 18, 2018 9:58 AM

He's very cute to those who like men, not fey twinks.

by Anonymousreply 17August 18, 2018 9:59 AM

Blakey s exy here. But some pics he appears to be deficient in the chin department so probably a pass

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by Anonymousreply 18August 18, 2018 10:00 AM

Blokey sexy*

by Anonymousreply 19August 18, 2018 10:00 AM

[quote] This is a statement about my current status as a dude

He literally opened his 9 page (!!!!!!!!!) letter to come out with this.

by Anonymousreply 20August 18, 2018 10:01 AM

Bi curious ?

by Anonymousreply 21August 18, 2018 10:01 AM

Top or bottom? Or vers?

by Anonymousreply 22August 18, 2018 10:02 AM

They would make more sense if they simply stated percentages: "I'm only 60% straight."

by Anonymousreply 23August 18, 2018 10:02 AM

He bears Marcel Proust on his left arm.

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by Anonymousreply 24August 18, 2018 10:05 AM

He is "queer" because he sometimes has the feels for boys. So now every mastrubatory fantasy is part of your identity. Yeah, it seems like identity politics is really opening doors.

by Anonymousreply 25August 18, 2018 10:05 AM

I have a thing for Joe Rogan (still just about) so yeah..

by Anonymousreply 26August 18, 2018 10:06 AM

I'm actually enjoying the letter. This dude I never knew existed till a minute ago says he wrote some famous record where people thought it was about him, but it was rather about a character banging some chick senseless because he was a virgin back then and it was meant as a musical...

Well, the part that really matters

[quote] Again, I wrote it as a character. For the first time since “the Pinocchio record”. It’s basically what I realized to be a literal sequel to …. Is A Real boy in many ways. This record is the story of what would happen to the Real Boy many people thought I was. His band did well but then fell off, hard. He’d be my age, of course, but he’d still be living in Brooklyn, struggling with financial woes, single and strung out. Which leads me to liking guys.

by Anonymousreply 27August 18, 2018 10:06 AM

[quote] GAY STUFF I have always been bi-ish or queer or a straight guy who can also like boys. I always talked or joked about it with my friends and found it to be blatantly clear I was. I was bullied for it and called a “fag” (without irony). This is, sadly, common. I’m not special. I even went so far as to tell people I was also attracted to guys repeatedly. They chalked it up to my bipolar shit, which was hurtful. They also minimized it because I found true love early in life, and saw that as a negation of my sexuality, or at least a minimization of my right to even identify as bisexual or queer. Because I don’t want to hook up with guys. But I also didn’t hook up with a lot of girls. Iwanted to fall in love with a woman, so I did. I’ve always been somewhat of a monogamist and my queer experiences were limited and remain mostly emotional ones. I don’t feel threatened or scared because I grew up with some amount of privilege in that regard, coming from a supportive, liberal family. So I’m not minimizing how hard that can be for other people. I get that I have it easy.

Ok, I'm done here.

by Anonymousreply 28August 18, 2018 10:07 AM

So is Jason Mraz

by Anonymousreply 29August 18, 2018 10:09 AM

This unfamous singer sounds as self-absorbed as Tearful Don Lemmon.

by Anonymousreply 30August 18, 2018 10:10 AM

[quote] I don’t want to hook up with guys.

All you need to know.

by Anonymousreply 31August 18, 2018 10:10 AM

This guy is a textbook oppression olympics enrollment form. Errr. I'm straight, but I like dudes, but not really, but I suffered like gays, blah blah blah blah.

And he has the nerve to call himself a Christian punk rocker. That, my dear friends, is why Rock is dead.

by Anonymousreply 32August 18, 2018 10:15 AM

Major gay voice. Problem solved.

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by Anonymousreply 33August 18, 2018 10:18 AM

[quote]an emotional nine-page letter

that's the gayest thing I read on the Internet this week

by Anonymousreply 34August 18, 2018 10:24 AM

So to cliffs note it: I think about peen all the time, but I don't want to be 'a gay' so I won't try it, because once I do I won't be able to go back to vag.

He must be utterly exhausting to be around anything more than casually.

by Anonymousreply 35August 18, 2018 10:36 AM

That doesn't sound like "gay voice," r33.

by Anonymousreply 36August 18, 2018 10:41 AM

He writes comic books for Marvel and others. I wonder if any of them contain homo themes? He does look like a sterotypical comic book nerd. Unless they’re all blue-haired non-binary anarcho-communist transbians now

by Anonymousreply 37August 18, 2018 10:50 AM

R32 doesn’ he identify as Christian Jewishi or something. He refers to the holocaust a lot. This queer Jew Christian bipolar man has known suffering

by Anonymousreply 38August 18, 2018 10:56 AM

No idea R38 this is literally the first time I've ever heard of this person.

by Anonymousreply 39August 18, 2018 11:00 AM

He wants to be everything to everyone, bi, queer, straight, Christian, Jewish. Ugh. No one cares THAT much about your inner confusion, whoever you are.

by Anonymousreply 40August 18, 2018 11:08 AM

What list do you have to have been on to even have noticed this?

by Anonymousreply 41August 18, 2018 11:09 AM

Neither do we, Mariah.

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by Anonymousreply 42August 18, 2018 11:11 AM

Sounds like he's a guy married to a woman and wants cock but for whatever reason doesn't go out and get any (probably because he's either terrified or maybe, just maybe he's a married guy who actually honors his marriage vows). He probably masturbates thinking about guys, or while watching gay porn. No biggie. Lots of "straight" men do that on the sly.

by Anonymousreply 43August 18, 2018 11:12 AM

Where are the songs ?

by Anonymousreply 44August 18, 2018 2:54 PM

Queerty hails him as “popular singer” but seems more like an emo also-ran who never made it across this side of the Atlantic. Anyone keeping score on these emo types coming out? Isn’t that My Chemical Whatever dude* a tranny adjacent?

by Anonymousreply 45August 18, 2018 3:13 PM

He's was cute and fuckable when he was thinner.

by Anonymousreply 46August 18, 2018 3:44 PM

I bet that fat whore has hooked up with men before though he's lying about it in that letter.

Mraz also tried to say at first that he was bi, but had never been with a guy. Only later did he admit that not only he has been with men but was also having sex with them while dating his wife.

There's a weird culture in Hollywood where guys downplay their homosexual experiences even after admitting they're not at all straight.

Didn't Colton Haynes also try to say he was a virgin when he came out as gay?

by Anonymousreply 47August 18, 2018 4:33 PM

Mraz is such a complete wanker he makes this guy seem less so.

by Anonymousreply 48August 18, 2018 8:02 PM

Dude is 34, way to old for this teenage nonsense.

by Anonymousreply 49August 18, 2018 8:15 PM

Y’all are so old and bittter

by Anonymousreply 50August 18, 2018 8:38 PM

Just admit you're gay. Sheesh. These people who try and to parse every word and definition to describe their sexuality are so tedious. You're gay. Bi-ish, my ass.

by Anonymousreply 51August 18, 2018 11:08 PM

He'd be gay if he hadn't met the love of his life first

by Anonymousreply 52August 18, 2018 11:11 PM

R51, kick rocks dude.

by Anonymousreply 53August 18, 2018 11:15 PM

He scares me. If I had to spend a day with him I'm sure he would put me on edge all the time.

by Anonymousreply 54August 18, 2018 11:16 PM

These people who spend their whole life trying to define their “unique” sexuality are a bore. No one else is that that invested that you’re a part time straight guy with a hint of gay and pansexual rating of 34%

by Anonymousreply 55August 19, 2018 10:54 AM

Bump

by Anonymousreply 56November 26, 2018 12:02 PM

Beamish?

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by Anonymousreply 57November 26, 2018 12:09 PM

^ Honestly, only on DL could Beamish be a recognized element in conversation.

by Anonymousreply 58November 26, 2018 12:14 PM

Nine pages to say you like having it off wit girls AND boys?

Okay.

by Anonymousreply 59November 26, 2018 12:16 PM

"bi-ish or queer or a straight guy who can also like boys.”

How did Millennials (and younger) develop this horror of saying "gay"?

The word will eventually disappear form the English language.

by Anonymousreply 60November 26, 2018 12:17 PM

Miss the days when it was just Straight, gay (or lesbian) or bisexual.

by Anonymousreply 61November 26, 2018 2:33 PM

[quote] But some pics he appears to be deficient in the chin department so probably a pass

What a horrible thing to say.

by Anonymousreply 62November 26, 2018 2:44 PM

I like his look, and don't really care what words he uses to describe himself. Some individuals do struggle, or keep things private. Basically I see him as a straight leaning, but most of the time bi bloke.

by Anonymousreply 63November 26, 2018 3:45 PM

9 pages? Mary.

by Anonymousreply 64November 26, 2018 3:46 PM

Just another bottom.

by Anonymousreply 65November 26, 2018 4:12 PM

[quote]How did Millennials (and younger) develop this horror of saying "gay"?

Because they grew up with their peers saying "that's so gay!" or "GAYYYYY!" all throughout high school.

by Anonymousreply 66November 26, 2018 4:30 PM

I think he's really cute, esp. when he was younger and thin.

by Anonymousreply 67November 26, 2018 4:47 PM

Coming soon to your local Grindr.

by Anonymousreply 68November 26, 2018 4:48 PM

I have always loved Max. He is so hot when he has meat on his bones. I love his music. Met him twice. His wife is talentless trash. Yoko style.

by Anonymousreply 69November 26, 2018 5:05 PM

Physically, he's just my type. But, God, that personality and the bending over in a pretzel to come out as... something, I guess... is SO insufferable.

by Anonymousreply 70November 26, 2018 5:43 PM

It's the it thing

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