Ocean’s admirable statement comes two days after rumors of bisexuality spread like wildfire over the ‘net. After listening to his debut album, “Channel Orange,” a BBC1 Xtra’s Max writer posted a. He was too. We spent that summer, and the summer after, together. Everyday almost.
Ocean has never confirmed whether or not he is gay, but he sure isn’t straight. The singer has long explicitly stated his indifference to labels, rejecting every umbrella term society. The commercial and critical success of Frank Ocean is not just a testament to his talent but to how music fans and the industry at large have become more progressive in their thinking. Hooray to all parties involved. This is not an insult to Ocean, whose talent is undeniable and whose symbolism is not easily swept under the rug.
Ocean’s sexuality is, as he describes it, “dynamic”—a self-assessment that hasn’t stopped journalists from pigeonholing him as bisexual or gay. I was 19 years old. He was too. We spent that summer.
Yes, Frank Ocean is bisexual, if not gay. He tells the story of meeting his first true love, a man, at “It changed my life,” he says. He found that his thoughts would “wander to the women I. By Jason Lamphier. His date talks too much and is thinking short term. It may be the most impassioned, devastating plea from one man to another ever recorded.