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big_dog

(4,144 posts)
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 07:14 PM Aug 2014

Larry King Confused By Anna Paquin's 'Non-Practicing' Bisexuality

Larry King has interviewed a lot of people, but the renowned talk show host doesn’t understand Anna Paquin’s bisexuality. While discussing True Blood and her marriage, Paquin had to explain her sexual orientation to King. The awkward exchange between Paquin and King went as follows:

King: "Are you a non-practicing bisexual?" Paquin: "Well, I am married to my husband and we are happily monogamously married." King: "But you were bisexual?" Paquin: "Well, I don’t think it’s a past-tense thing." Larry King: "No?" Paquin: "No. Are you still straight if you are with somebody — if you were to break up with them or if they were to die, it doesn’t prevent your sexuality from existing. It doesn’t really work like that."

Paquin has been making the media rounds discussing True Blood and her tweets from Pride in which she said she was a “proud married bisexual mother.”

"There's people that are going to go to their grave thinking what they think about the LGBT community," Paquin told HuffPost Live. "That's their problem, not mine. And there's people that think that monogamy and bisexuality are mutually exclusive. Again, their problem not mine. The reason I feel like it's important to talk about this stuff is that the more normal and, frankly, mundane and boring this stuff becomes the better it's going to be for everybody who is part of our community http://www.advocate.com/bisexuality/2014/07/31/larry-king-confused-anna-paquins-non-practicing-bisexuality

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Larry King Confused By Anna Paquin's 'Non-Practicing' Bisexuality (Original Post) big_dog Aug 2014 OP
As a bisexual woman who has been in a monogamous relationship with a man for 25 y Luminous Animal Aug 2014 #1
The things Larry King doesn't understand could fill a new ocean Scootaloo Aug 2014 #2
'if i could just watch one movie till the end of time, it would be Mickey Blue Eyes' big_dog Aug 2014 #3
I was gonna say, "that sounds like a SNL line!" Scootaloo Aug 2014 #5
K&R Solly Mack Aug 2014 #4

Luminous Animal

(27,310 posts)
1. As a bisexual woman who has been in a monogamous relationship with a man for 25 y
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 07:41 PM
Aug 2014

years, I've explained that I didn't lose my sexuality way way too many times.

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