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'Proud Bisexual' Anna Paquin Defends Her Marriage to Stephen Moyer: 'He Doesn't Have a Problem'

Anna Paquin is hitting back at criticism of her sexuality and her marriage to Stephen Moyer.

The 38-year-old actress, who wed her former True Blood costar in 2010, addressed negativity about her bisexuality on Instagram Tuesday night, sharing a post that read, "I'm a #proudbisexual who is married to a wonderful human who happens to be a man."

"If he doesn't have a problem with it why should anyone else? #loveislove🌈 #f---bierasure #bipride💖💜💙," Paquin added in the caption.

Earlier in the day, she also shared a screen grab on her Instagram Story of a user comment that read, in part, "I am getting tired of seeing 'bi' celebrities constantly advocate for it only to end up conventionally married to men with multiple children, living out the so-called white-picket-fence life."

"Ah yes ... the 'you aren't queer enough' BS," Paquin wrote atop the image.

Paquin and Moyer, 51, tied the knot in 2010, while they were still starring as protagonists Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton, respectively, on the HBO vampire fantasy drama series.

Earlier that year, the Oscar winner came out as bisexual in a PSA video promoting the Give a Damn campaign, which featured celebrities speaking out for equality.

"I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn," she said on-camera during a private taping in Los Angeles. (Sources at the time said they were unaware beforehand that Paquin would make the announcement.)

Other major names in the campaign included Kim Kardashian, Elton John, Whoopi Goldberg, Cynthia Nixon, Sharon and Kelly Osbourne, Judith Light, Clay Aiken and Wanda Sykes.

Paquin later celebrated her own bisexuality and called for equal marriage rights in a single tweet, writing in June 2014, "Proud to be a happily married bisexual mother. Marriage is about love not gender."

The actress — who shares twins Poppy and Charlie, 8½, with Moyer — then linked to the Twitter accounts of Equality California, the NOH8 Campaign and the It Gets Better initiative, all of which fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

Back in 2012, The Irishman star told Zooey magazine that her sexual orientation was a "minor biographical detail," but that she felt compelled to speak out for LGBTQ+ rights.

"If you're going to talk about some cause in a way that's meaningful, you should identify why it means something to you," Paquin said. "For a bisexual, it's not about gender. That's not the deciding factor for who they're attracted to."

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by Anonymousreply 49June 28, 2021 3:40 AM

he probably gets off on his wife with other women

by Anonymousreply 1May 19, 2021 8:38 PM

R1 I was gonna say, does he watch? “Way to go man!” 🙌

by Anonymousreply 2May 19, 2021 8:39 PM

Give her a break. It's tough when your career peaks at 10.

by Anonymousreply 3May 19, 2021 8:39 PM

I mean, has she actually been with a woman?

by Anonymousreply 4May 19, 2021 8:40 PM

She’s looking a little rough around the edges nowadays.

by Anonymousreply 5May 19, 2021 8:41 PM

Is the husband bisexual too?

(Asking for a friend)

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by Anonymousreply 6May 19, 2021 8:43 PM

She came out as bisexual years ago. This must be a recoming out for publicity.

She always seemed sort of aspie on True Blood.

by Anonymousreply 7May 19, 2021 8:46 PM

[quote] She came out as bisexual years ago. This must be a recoming out for publicity.

Perhaps, but at least she’s not a “they/them” attention void.

by Anonymousreply 8May 19, 2021 9:01 PM

I'm sort of surprised this marriage lasted.

At the time it was seen as Moyer's way of keeping his character on the show. (In the books they character is only around briefly and then Sookie moves on to Skarsgaard's character.) By marrying her people thought he was assuring they'd keep him around since they wouldn't want to disturb the star.

by Anonymousreply 9May 19, 2021 9:28 PM

Who cares? Unless she’s telling us she sleeps around with boys and girls? So this is a story about her infidelity? Still don’t care.

by Anonymousreply 10May 19, 2021 9:35 PM

Every woman is a bisexual until the right guy comes along.

by Anonymousreply 11May 19, 2021 10:42 PM

Why do people think we give a shit about these things? It's her personal business and it should stay that way.

And, yea, straight men get turned on by this - whether it's real or fantasy.

by Anonymousreply 12May 19, 2021 10:45 PM

I agree with her, as a married bi woman. But I have nothing to prove, even though people insist we don't exist or haven't decided what we want yet. I'm 50- I've decided, ffs. I'm bi.

I didn't know her husband had been attacked for her choices online? They seem to be under the radar these days.

by Anonymousreply 13May 19, 2021 10:47 PM

[quote]She came out as bisexual years ago. This must be a recoming out for publicity.

Exactly what I was thinking. Why randomly bring this up when nobody is checking for her?

by Anonymousreply 14May 19, 2021 10:54 PM

#ProudBisexuals Vanessa Carlton and Clementine Ford are also in heterosexual marriages.

by Anonymousreply 15May 19, 2021 10:57 PM

I am of the belief that male bisexuality is much more widespread than [straight] people want to think.

by Anonymousreply 16May 19, 2021 11:02 PM

OP: Anna Paquin is very attractive.

by Anonymousreply 17May 19, 2021 11:05 PM

But is she a cis, non-binary, gender non-conforming, post-apocalyptic, post-modernist feminist?

by Anonymousreply 18May 19, 2021 11:09 PM

“ I mean, has she actually been with a woman?”

Good question.

by Anonymousreply 19May 19, 2021 11:19 PM

Good for her. She is divine!

by Anonymousreply 20May 19, 2021 11:20 PM

She always did like watching Shawn fuck me. So did Ian. Good time, good times.

Call me sometime, Anna! I miss you, bitch.

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by Anonymousreply 21May 19, 2021 11:32 PM

[quote] Every woman is a bisexual until the right guy comes along.

That is 100% truth.

[quote] I am of the belief that male bisexuality is much more widespread than (straight) people want to think.

That's why I was wondering if the husband was bi.

And wouldn't it be a shitty double-standard if he was.

She's out there proud of announcing her female bisexuality, while he's cowering in the background and HIDING his MALE bisexuality.

Why are people okay with women being bisexual, but not men?????

That fucking sucks!

by Anonymousreply 22May 19, 2021 11:41 PM

I love Anna Paquin.

She was excellent as Rogue in X-Men.

by Anonymousreply 23May 20, 2021 12:25 AM

[quote]I am of the belief that male bisexuality is much more widespread than [straight] people want to think.

It sure is, but it’s considered taboo still for some reason. I’ve slept with plenty of “straight” men who won’t even admit they’re bi because they’re so ashamed.

by Anonymousreply 24May 20, 2021 1:34 AM

[quote] I am of the belief that male bisexuality is much more widespread than [straight] people want to think.

I agree. But I think it's because men are bigger sluts than women and will stick their dick anywhere. Plus men would just as soon get down to it rather than waste time on foreplay or god forbid "courting".

by Anonymousreply 25May 20, 2021 1:52 AM

R9 I am too. I remember there was drama because of the changes Stephen wanted with Bill's character in the last season of True Blood. Apparently it pissed AS off and he refused to come to set.

by Anonymousreply 26June 1, 2021 2:34 PM

I worked with someone years ago (female) who was bisexual and had flings and her husband didn't mind one bit.

She hooked up with a lady at a conference we attended in another part of the city. I think there are way more bi women than men. After all, men have something between their legs that tells them what they like.

by Anonymousreply 27June 1, 2021 2:40 PM

She’s a terrible actress. Her performance in Margaret is so overwrought and shrill that I had to turn it off. And she was useless in the final season of The Affair. Maybe she should spend less time talking about her sexual preferences and more time honing her acting skills. Hubby is cute though.

by Anonymousreply 28June 1, 2021 2:43 PM

I'm sure Stephen Moyer loves it.

by Anonymousreply 29June 1, 2021 3:05 PM

Gay only for the month of June? 🏳️‍🌈

by Anonymousreply 30June 1, 2021 3:15 PM

She looks so much like Holly Hunter in that picture.

by Anonymousreply 31June 1, 2021 3:18 PM

Only gay below 14th street

by Anonymousreply 32June 1, 2021 3:24 PM

What the hell is wrong with this woman? How is her sexuality an appropriate topic for public discourse?

by Anonymousreply 33June 1, 2021 3:29 PM

Another annoying attention grab from a “bisexual.” Whatever. Why does anyone care and why is it at all relevant unless she’s married to a woman? Isn’t Sandra Bernhard a bisexual in a same sex marriage? You don’t see her whoring that detail around. It’s disrespectful, honestly. If you enter a marriage with someone then usually that’s the person you’re gonna be having sex with til that marriage is over so why would it matter that you’re bisexual regardless of what sex your spouse is? If I was married to a bisexual and she was constantly affirming that she wasn’t lesbian but bisexual I’d be sus that she was keeping her male options open. Agreed that this is inappropriate to announce. Totally trashy.

by Anonymousreply 34June 1, 2021 3:38 PM

yes r26 I heard that too (from a cast member) that Moyer and Paquin weren't happy with the last season and tried to take over since Alan Ball had left and the producers had less power

by Anonymousreply 35June 1, 2021 8:25 PM

"#bierasure" - really?

If people are bisexual and get married, isn't one side of their bisexuality inherently going to "lose out." You'd think the people taking issue with her would understand that. Can she only marry a woman? Or does she have to be in some arrangement where both men and women are involved to ensure no "bierasure"?

I always though "pansexual" was a better term. Bisexual seems like it should mean that you are only attracted to and get off on men and women together. But, "bisexual" people, at the time they're fucking a man or a woman, are engaging in fully gay or fully straight behavior.

by Anonymousreply 36June 1, 2021 8:36 PM

I do wonder if bisexuals ever marry the same sex partner, or is that always the exotic side piece.

by Anonymousreply 37June 1, 2021 8:48 PM

Alan Cumming is a creepy bisexual in a same sex marriage who constantly demeans his husband by going on and on about how BISEXUAL he is and how much he loves women.

What a creep to do that to his husband.

by Anonymousreply 38June 1, 2021 8:52 PM

Most bisexuals are assholes, so it doesn’t surprise me.

by Anonymousreply 39June 2, 2021 1:00 AM

She really wants people to know. To not forget.

by Anonymousreply 40June 28, 2021 1:41 AM

She has always been so masculine looking to me.

by Anonymousreply 41June 28, 2021 1:43 AM

Elton was another proud bisexual in an opposite sex marriage.

by Anonymousreply 42June 28, 2021 1:55 AM

Makes me wonder how many of these bisexual women in Hollywood are actually bisexual. I'm not saying they need to prove it, but I'm just curious.

by Anonymousreply 43June 28, 2021 1:58 AM

Like she’s gonna wake up n start feasting on a cunt. I don’t believe it.

by Anonymousreply 44June 28, 2021 2:04 AM

Why? Is muff diving really so hard to imagine?

by Anonymousreply 45June 28, 2021 2:06 AM

[quote]Makes me wonder how many of these bisexual women in Hollywood are actually bisexual. I'm not saying they need to prove it, but I'm just curious.

Considering the majority of them that claim they are bi ate almost always only in relationships with men, I would say very few.

by Anonymousreply 46June 28, 2021 2:24 AM

Eating is not cheating.

by Anonymousreply 47June 28, 2021 2:39 AM

Obviously both gay. I'm serious. Who's had him?

by Anonymousreply 48June 28, 2021 3:14 AM

Here's a pretty good list of self-professed bisexuals. Some of them (Drew Barrymore) I'd forgotten about.

I don't agree with "It's her personal business, why is she making a big deal out of it?" If she were publicly defining as lesbian or queer (or transgender), it would be a big deal indeed.

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