We know, we know.
A few short months ago we didn't even know what band Pete Wentz played in — we just thought he was that guy with the eyeliner who knocked up Ashlee Simpson. But what if we told you he makes out with boys and has a huge penis?
Wentz recently talked to Out magazine about what the media perceives as his sexual ambiguity and how he doesn't really give a fuck what you think. Which is hot, right?
He doesn’t seem to think he has much to prove to Out, and I ask a lot of follow-up questions. Wentz answers them all, even when he’s not sure I’ll like the answers. “When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that,” he admits. “And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.” He thinks the first time he kissed a guy was when he was 16 or 17, probably on a dare at a party: “Like, ‘You make out with this dude and we’ll make out.’ ” And of later experiments, at 18 or 19, he says it was more like, “I’m going to try this thing.” And most recently? He actually apologizes before responding. “A long time ago,” he says with a slight wince. “Probably when I was 22?”...
He has no qualms talking about his attraction to men (including a big, stupid crush on John Mayer), which still puts him on a very short list of famous young male musicians and actors who haven’t been convinced that confession is in and of itself a career killer. But as he said in The Advocate in 2007, the stopping point truly does come when the action strays below the belt. “It’s really about the equipment,” he tells me, gesturing at his crotch with a grimace. (Decide for yourself: The first unfiltered hit for an image search on Wentz’s name still yields the shots he took of his equipment in hand, which leaked from his Sidekick in 2006.) “I really don’t think it’s an attractive quality. That’s what it comes down to. I don’t even like my own. Like, I really don’t like it. I don’t like anything about it.”...
“Our culture bombards us with this idea that you’re not that, and if you are that, there’s something wrong with you, and then we’re going to call you that, and then it’s an insult,” he says. “There is a sense of self-empowerment or recapturing who you are by people calling you ‘fag,’ and being like, ‘Yeah, I am a fag.’ Even though you’re not. What does somebody respond? That dude has nothing to say about that again.” He stops, and this time he is at least a little worried for his own rep. “Am I going to catch flak for saying ‘fag’ in a magazine?” (Only when we put it on the cover, Pete.)
Oh, right and the huge penis thing.
Unfortunately, the said penis pictures have disappeared from their original home. But we swear they were here about a month ago. Good thing we grabbed them when we did.
And for that (we'll let you guess which "that" we're talking about), Pete Wentz is our Crush of the Week.
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