Legendary actor Billy Dee Williams is embracing the decades-worth of homosexual rumors in opposition to him, claiming, “I’ve been known as a ‘Closet Queen.’”
Billy Dee Williams, who gained notoriety as “Lando Calrissian” within the unique ‘Star Wars‘ trilogy, admits that he by no means cared an excessive amount of about all the rumors that he was homosexual again within the 70s.
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Not too long ago, Williams spoke with Web page Six concerning the notorious rumors about his sexuality that might have ruined his profession on the time. Williams laughed them off and stated, “I’ve been known as a ‘Closet Queen.’ However, I don’t pay a lot consideration to any of that.”
Williams famous that he has all the time been comfy hanging round members of the LGBTQIA+ group and has even attended secret homosexual events within the Metropolitan Opera’s basement. He stated, “All of it appeared very regular to me. I used to be round all of it of my life, so I by no means actually gave it a lot thought.”
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Billy Dee Williams beforehand spoke about his sexuality in November 2019 and left followers questioning if he was gender fluid. On the time, Williams instructed Esquire, “I say ‘himself’ and ‘herself,’ as a result of I additionally see myself as female in addition to masculine. I’m a really smooth individual. I’m not afraid to point out that aspect of myself.”
Williams shortly clarified his feedback and instructed The Undefeated that he hadn’t even heard of the time period earlier than his feedback within the Esquire interview. He stated, “Properly, to start with, I requested final night time. I stated, ‘What the hell is gender fluid?’ That’s an entire new time period.”
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The now 86-year-old actor continued, “However what I used to be speaking about was about males getting in contact with their softer aspect of themselves.”
He added, “There’s a phrase that was coined by Carl G. Jung, who was a psychiatrist, who was a up to date of Sigmund Freud, and so they had a splitting of the methods as a result of they’d totally different concepts concerning the … what do you name it? Consciousness. Unconscious. It’s collective unconsciousness. However he coined a phrase that’s, ‘Anima animus.’ And anima means that’s the feminine counterpart of the male self, and the animus is the male counterpart of the feminine.”
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Williams continued, “So, that’s what I used to be referring to. I was speaking about males getting in contact with the feminine aspect of themselves. I wasn’t speaking about intercourse, I wasn’t speaking about being homosexual or straight. Folks ought to learn [Jung]. I imply, it could be an fascinating schooling for lots of people.”
He once more clarified that he wasn’t homosexual, affirming, “No, no, no, I’m not homosexual — by any stretch of the creativeness. Not that I’ve something in opposition to homosexual folks. However personally? Not homosexual.”
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