After a Spring wedding with Ashlee
Simpson and a baby on the way, you'd think Pete Wentz would stop
calling himself a “fag.” Yet, once again, on the cover of Out
Magazine, the twenty-nine-year old punk rocker is doing just
that.
Maybe it's not what Wentz intended, to
grace the cover of Out Magazine with the headline, “Yeah, I
am a fag.” But there it is on newstands across the country.
In an exclusive Out interview,
the Fall Out Boy front man says, “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.”
Then adds, “Am I going to catch flak
for saying 'fag' in a magazine?”
Pete Wentz also talks about making out
with boys. “When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a
slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made
it a bigger deal than it was.”
While he admits to having a crush on
fellow musician John Mayer, Wentz says he stops short at the waist
line with men. “I really don't think it's an attractive quality,”
he says, gesturing at his crotch. “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.”
Wentz seems to be interested in
breaking-down the stereotypes that result in homophobia. “Homophobia
is the last acceptable hatred,” he's often said. “People treat
sexuality the same way that [during] Jim Crow [white] people treated
African-Americans. It's totally dehumanized.”
And offers a big endorsement to gay
marriage: “The actual acceptance of gay marriage in inevitable.
It's just like how the next generation of kids are going to all have
tattoos.”