Sanjaya Malakar came out as bisexual 15 years after his AmericanIdol stint.
happened, and everyone was like, ‘Oh, he’s gay.’ And I was like, ‘OK, well now I have to say no, because at this point they’re forcing me to make a decision and define myself.'”
He didn’t feel comfortable with having to choose a label before he understood he was bisexual. “You had to be as hyper-masculine as possible to fit in, and coming up in 2007, it was like, ‘Being gay is OK, but you have to define yourself, and there’s this or that,'” the former reality TV personality recalled.
The PR professionals working with Malakar were trying to make him a brand, which didn’t help him figure out his identity. “All of my publicists were like, ‘Oh, just tell everyone you’re single. Be ambiguous. No one needs to know anything about anything because you don’t want to lose your fans,'” he said.
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