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‘The Truth is OUT There.’ Gillian Anderson Discusses Her Bisexuality
90′s television royalty, Gillian Anderson opens up about her teenage bisexuality and dating a much older woman during her high school days in an interview with OUT’s Aaron Hicklin.
OUT: Wait, a lesbian relationship?
“Yeah, yeah, well it’s… You know, I’m old enough that I can talk about that,” she says, before resuming her list: “And then I was in a relationship with somebody who was way, way older than me. Everything that that kind of anarchistic attitude brings—the inappropriate behavior it leads to—was how I chose to be in the world at that time, which was, you know, not what people did.”
Much of this has been written before — how she dyed her hair purple, how she glued the school gates shut on graduation night, the drugs and alcohol — but her lesbian romance is something new. Understandably, she is wary of making a big deal of it, precisely because it is a big deal for so many people. “If I had thought I was 100% gay, would it have been a different experience for me?” she wonders.
“Would it have been a bigger deal if shame had been attached to it and all those things that become huge life-altering issues for youngsters in that situation? It’s possible that my attitude around it came, on some level, from knowing that I still liked boys.”
Alright ladies, who called this a decade ago?
Go read the entire interview at OUT. Shoo! Go on now.
