Music producer Clive Davis has come out
bisexual.
Davis, 80, discusses his sexuality in
his upcoming memoir The Soundtrack of My Life.
In an interview with ABC's Nightline,
Davis said bisexuality is “maligned” and “misunderstood.”
“It's not, as I write, that the
heavens opened up, but I realized in my case the most important
thing, I'm relationship oriented, and I would open up my perspective,
my life, my emotion, to have a relationship with a man as well as a
woman. And so that when it comes to the pure subject of sex, when
our marriage was over, I did go through a period of having sex with
two different women, and with a male. So for me, this very maligned,
misunderstood subject of bisexuality came up.”
“It's been said that people are
either gay, straight or lying,” Cynthia McFadden stated.
“Correct. I'm not lying, and it
exists,” Davis replied. “For over fifty years, I never had sex
with a male. It wasn't repressed. I had very good sexual
relationships with women. … I never felt shame, no, I never felt
shame. I felt puzzled. The subject of bisexuality really needs much
more discussion because the answer is it's a status that does exist.”
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Davis, currently the chief creative
officer of Sony Music Entertainment, is credited with bringing
Whitney Houston to prominence.