Ever since Jeremy Renner started climbing the star ladder there have been rumours about his sexuality (which partly started because he often takes his mother to awards ceremonies with him as his ‘date’).
Now though he’s taken the time to address those rumours, telling Playboy, “I’m not going to try to prove what I am or am not. It’s silly, right? When you google yourself and the first thing that comes up is ‘Jeremy Renner gay,’ it’s like, ‘Oh, now you’ve arrived. You’re now a giant movie star.’ I don’t care, ultimately, if that’s what people want to think, read and care about. F**king say whatever the hell you want about me. Look at where we’re at socially—leaps and bounds ahead of where we started. That’s an amazing thing. To suggest that it’s negative, that being gay is a terrible thing, a perversion or whatever—I just don’t get it. Don’t you wish we were in a world where we’re not shaming, judging and boxing people in?”
While some have praised the Oscar nominee for not playing the game and refusing to ‘box’ himself in, others have seen it as another example of someone refusing to simply answer the question. It is admittedly odd that he’s keen to suggest that the rumours are about shaming and come from a place where people think being gay is negative, while he’s simulaneously not actually saying whether he is gay or not – something that arguably suggests he thinks there is an issue with it if he doesn’t want to just set the record straight.
Personally I don’t really care either way and if he’d prefer not to answer the question, that’s fair enough, but I’m certainly not as big a fan of Renner’s comments as some have been.
Jaxx says
Love what he said. Tbh people have accused him of being ashamed of being gay, not of just being gay. That’s almost def why the no-shaming came up. He has no obligation to respond either way, so anyone complaining that he’s still not out publicly and that’s a huge problem clearly missed the point and are wanting something they are not entitled too. Shame.
In other news, I think I’m in love with Renner now.
TW says
Didn’t he just drop like 2.5 million bucks to get joint custody of his daughter? *.*
Aaric Russell Garfield says
The infantile obsession gay men have with who is gay and who is not gay is pathetic. Celebrity or not if someone is gay it is PERSONAL I REPEAT PERSONAL!!!!!!!!!!! The public is not entitled to know intimate details of a person’s life unless the person wishes to make the information public. In addition, we are men with more important issues than bitchy, inane, gossip.