Everything Harry Styles has said about his sexuality and gender-fluid fashion
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Harry Styles has been at the center of multiple conversations about sexuality and gender-fluid fashion.
He made headlines when he posed in a Gucci dress in the December issue of Vogue.
In a interview, the singer said that he thinks "sexuality's something that's fun."
In an interview with British GQ for the magazine's September issue, Styles said he was "pretty sure" he didn't determine as bisexual.
The comment was sparked by the interviewer asking Styles to address rumors about him and his friend Nick Grimshaw being in a relationship.
After the singer said that they're "just friends," the interviewer asked: "So you're not bisexual?"
In response, Styles said, "Bisexual? Me? I don't think so. I'm pretty sure I'm not."
In , Styles said that when looking
A photoshoot in a dress, the most colorful outfits on stage, and playing a gay man in a movie: Harry Styles presents himself in a way often seen as related to genderfluidity and queerness. For some people, this is a reason to accuse Styles of queerbaiting. He is using queerness to reach a queer audience, they declare, instead of being queer himself.
This paper will not answer the question if Styles is queerbaiting or not, since someone’s sexuality is not something we have to discuss. However, in this paper, I will focus on where the accusations of queerbaiting are coming from. To do so, I will analyze discourse on Styles’ queerbaiting, and then perform case studies on the performances the accusations are about. I will gaze into how Styles presents himself and how this relates to his audience and their expectations of Styles.
I will answer the following research question: How does the difference between how Harry Styles presents himself and how others view him play a role in the accusations of queerbaiting?
To do so, I will use the theoretical concepts of Goffman’s presentation of self (
Harry Styles: ‘I’m not just sprinkling in sexual ambiguity to be interesting’
Here he comes, one of the planet’s most conspicuous new men, stepping out of the London drizzle and into a dusty suburban pub. If there was an old vinyl tape player in the place it would scratch calm. Instead, the two-dozen punters turn hushed and intent, as if a unicorn has just trotted in off the street, and nobody wants to scare it off. “That’s frickin’ Harry frickin’ Styles,” whispers a young man at the bar, “in this pub.” The pop star is asked what he wants to drink and in a voice already inclined to undertones, adv orders a cup of tea.
A former teen star who is now 25, a happier and rockier solo artist since his boyband One Direction split a few years ago, Styles has hidden himself inside a large, swamp-green parka. He’s tall, around the 6ft mark, and carries himself with a slight stoop. If Styles could only do something about his appearance from the neck up (elfin brow, wide Joker beam, a face that’s recognisable across multiple continents) you sense he could noun in pubs like this
Harry Styles addresses probing on his sexuality, says he's on his 'own journey'
Harry Styles' sexuality has been a topic of fan discussion he rarely addresses. But in a new cover story, Styles himself dipped his toe into said discussion and shared he's on a "journey" with his sexuality.
Styles, 29, opened up about accusations that he is "queerbaiting" in an interview with Rolling Stone on Monday. Styles pushed back against the term, which refers to teasing that you are a part of the LGBTQ community to acquire a larger audience but never confirming if you are queer.
“Sometimes people state, ‘You’ve only publicly been with women,’ and I don’t think I’ve publicly been with anyone," he said. "If someone takes a picture of you with someone, it doesn’t imply you’re choosing to verb a public relationship or something.”
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Styles has been romantically linked to Olivia Wilde since January after the two were photographed by paparazzi several times kissing and holding hands. Wilde directed the musician in the upcoming film