{"id":250885,"date":"2026-01-22T01:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/250885\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T01:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:33:28","slug":"lets-all-be-normal-about-alexander-skarsgards-sexuality-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/250885\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s All Be Normal About Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd\u2019s Sexuality, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a nosy bisexual, I implicitly consider everyone\u2019s sexuality my business, but even I have been grossed out by the level of public discourse around freaky-dresser-extraordinaire<\/a> Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd of late. The Swedish actor, who stars as a BDSM-inclined gay biker in the new film Pillion, recently clarified comments he made to Variety last October, when he told the publication: \u201cI found that in this case, it\u2019s not really relevant what my background is. I mean, I do have a kid, but what I\u2019ve done in the past, who I\u2019ve been with, men, women\u2026 To me, what was important was that this felt like an opportunity to tell a story about a subculture I hadn\u2019t seen portrayed this way\u2014with so much authenticity.\u201d<\/p>\n

This week, Skarsg\u00e5rd (sort of) spoke to Variety about his sexuality once again, saying in an interview: \u201cThat [the role[ resonated with my past? It was definitely not an intended statement. I don\u2019t know what I was talking about. Maybe it has to do with\u2014there\u2019s a lot of focus sometimes on me as an actor. Maybe it was trying to shift the focus more to the story and these characters. And the importance of telling the story like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Okay! We could definitely just leave it there as a society, but obviously, we haven\u2019t; Skarsg\u00e5rd\u2019s sexuality is trending on social media, with many speculating about his possible bisexuality even after he effectively denied it.<\/p>\n

To be clear, I\u2019m not saying we should never, ever discuss any famous person\u2019s romantic or sexual inclinations. As I said before, I am gay, I love gossip, and I\u2019ll admit to being intrigued by Skarsg\u00e5rd\u2019s longtime friendship with Jack McBrayer<\/a>, a.k.a. Kenneth the Page from 30 Rock. But two men can just be friends! You\u2019re hearing it more and more these days! (Also, not that it really matters, but Kenneth himself was canonically straight; remember his chaste dalliance with fellow NBC page Grace Park in Season 1?)<\/p>\n

Skarsg\u00e5rd\u2019s individual identity aside, however, we really do seem to have a cultural allergy to being normal about bisexuals<\/a> (and lesbians, for that matter. I\u2019m still waiting for people to settle down about Chappell Roan<\/a>!). It\u2019s totally natural for us as queer people to want more LGBTQ+ role models in the public eye, especially in this moment of anti-trans legislation<\/a> and threats to gay marriage<\/a>. But that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re entitled to the full details of any individual celebrity\u2019s dating history, especially if they don\u2019t seem entirely comfortable opening up in that particular direction.<\/p>\n

After all, visibility doesn\u2019t necessarily equal acceptance or safety for actual, self-identified members of the LGBTQ+ community. Even if Skarsg\u00e5rd were gay or bisexual and out loud and proud about it, would that meaningfully change the material reality of any queer or trans person struggling to live their life in the US right now?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying queer role models aren\u2019t important, but in this time of homophobic repression, maybe we\u2019d all be better off if we focused a little less on idle gay-celebrity-gossip speculation and a little more on how to fight homophobia and transphobia wherever they crop up in our own lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a nosy bisexual, I implicitly consider everyone\u2019s sexuality my business, but even I have been grossed out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397,545,25716,116652,10051,5101],"class_list":{"0":"post-250885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-splitscreenimageleftfullbleed","14":"tag-storytypeopinion","15":"tag-tv-movies","16":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}