Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Thinks It’s ‘F—ing Cool’ Being Called a Bisexual Icon (Exclusive)

Billie Joe Armstrong is more than happy to identify as a bisexual icon.

“I love it. I think it’s freaking cool that somebody’s calling me a bisexual icon. I’ve seen that before. I was like, ‘Fuck yeah!'” Armstrong, 51, tells PEOPLE.

Frontman The Green day — whose band just released their 14th studio album, Saviors — he first revealed that he was bisexual in an interview in 1995 lawyer, and is delighted to see how conversations about sexuality have evolved in the nearly three decades since.

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Tre Cool, Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt.

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“Being Gen X, I feel like the seed was planted where it was the ’90s era that we came into, when men were discovering more and more bisexuality and coming out with bisexuality, whether it was someone like Kurt Cobain or what I spoke,” says Armstrong. “Now it’s much more complex, as far as sexuality is concerned. You say, ‘Wow, we’ve really come a long way.’ Even though it’s still seen as taboo, I think people are a lot braver now than they’ve ever been. I think people are a lot more open now.”

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Billie Joe Armstrong with his wife Adrienne and their children in 2020.

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Armstrong has been married to his wife Adrienne (54) for 29 years and they have two sons, Joey (28) and Jakob (25). Because of his marriage and family life, some on the Internet wondered if he was actually bisexual or just an LGBTQ ally.

“Sexuality is always much more than the standard, nuclear family way of looking at things,” he says. “But I was married – there’s this other side of me that’s very conventional when it comes to my 30-year marriage to my wife. But I just look at sexuality: it’s not one way or another. And if anyone ever tries to say that, I don’t think that they are really honest with themselves.”

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Green Day’s new song “Bobby Sox” — which the band performed Thursday night at a SiriusXM concert at Irving Plaza in New York — was initially inspired by Armstrong’s nights watching on the couch Office with his wife, but it developed into something of a queer anthem.

In a recent interview for Los Angeles Times, Armstrong expressed support for the transgender community.

“I just think they’re fucking close,” he said of transphobic people. “It’s like people are afraid of their children. Why would you be? Why not let your child be who they are?”

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