Jeremy Renner Says He’s Not Trying To Prove Anything In Response To Gay Rumours

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.