Anna Paquin: Why I Came Out As Bisexual
Posted on Jun 05, 2010 @ 05:20PM
Anna Paquin shocked her True Blood fans when she came out as being bisexual.
Her announcement was part of a PSA called Give a Damn put out April 1 by the gay rights organization, True Colors Fund.
But only now is the actress offering an explanation as to why she chose to make her sexual orientation public, RadarOnline.com can report.
"I'm not someone who endlessly talks about her personal life for no reason but obviously, as someone who identifies as bisexual, those are issues I really care about -- and frankly, I don't see why everyone doesn't care about them," she told Zap2it. "So when I was asked to participate in that PSA, it was just obvious. 'Well, of course I will'."
VIDEO: Anna Paquin Goes Public As Bisexual
Paquin, who is engaged to marry her True Blood costar Stephen Moyer, added that the campaign for equal rights for people of all sexual orientations is something she "cared about and privately supported, but not one that I had ever had an opportunity to speak out about in a way that would be useful. I just wanted to do my bit."
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And that's just fine with her TV boss Alan Ball, who is himself openly gay. The True Blood writer/producer calls Anna "really brave."
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what goes on in the bedroom should stay there...I don't want to hear about who or what they sleep with or anything else they do..only people who fight to prove theirselves are the ones most insecure. Why not keep this crap to theirselves?
Posted Sun, 06/06/2010 - 9:08am
Hollywood is corrupt...what do we expect? these days it seems they have shoved the decent people in the closet and let out the perverts...I don't judge anyone but the ones out there celebrating and trying to prove theirselves turn me off.
Posted Sun, 06/06/2010 - 8:42am
i dont know who she is. i dont care who she is. i dont care if she has sex with men, women or animals for that matter. and thats my 2 cents! oh and she has a freak ugly- big bird looking face!
Posted Sat, 06/05/2010 - 9:29pm
Can't wait for season 3 of True Blood. It's the best show on TV.
Posted Sat, 06/05/2010 - 6:50pm
I think most of the stars will suck a d??? or muff dive just to get work in Hollywood even if they are not gay and that is the truth......
Posted Sat, 06/05/2010 - 6:20pm
TMI
Posted Sun, 06/06/2010 - 10:14am
Not sure how announcing your sexual preference increases your fanbase?
Posted Sat, 06/05/2010 - 3:41pm
THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS.
Posted Sat, 06/05/2010 - 2:51pm
Bull, she just wants more fans, I guess it's chic to be asexual, homo, bi & what else did I forget~~~
I ani't goin' the animal route!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This IDIOT just wants more fans!!!!!!!!
Posted Sat, 06/05/2010 - 1:31pm
Rainbow, whatever her preference I don't need to know. However, she's a star of HBO's TRUE BLOOD - didn't just come out of childhood star obscurity to make the statement.
Posted Sat, 06/05/2010 - 12:27pm