Iggy Azalea: ‘I love gay people, but I’m straight’
By Sam Rigby
Iggy Azalea has addressed rumours about her sexuality by confirming that she is straight.
The Fancy rapper told PrideSource that she doesn’t want people to think that she is a “fake lesbian”.
She said that she doesn’t understand the “big trend of people being fake bisexuals”.
Asked why people think she is gay, she said: “I think they do because I will do songs and I’ll talk about women, and also, there was such a big trend of people being fake bisexuals. I don’t know what that was about.
“I know I talk about women a lot, and I think women are beautiful and I like talking about them, but I didn’t want people to misconstrue that and think that I was being a fake lesbian. It wasn’t a, ‘Don’t think I’m gay,’ but more so me being like, ‘Hey, I’m not a fake lesbian.’
“Straight’s cool too, you know! It’s almost like gay nowadays is so trendy that people want to be gay and then they don’t. I’m not gay. I love gay people, but I’m straight.
“I don’t wanna kiss girls. I’m not into girls. I appreciate women, and I like rapping about them, but in case you thought I was a lame person pretending to be gay, um, I’m not,” she added.
Azalea – who scored a Top 5 hit with her debut album The New Classic at the weekend – said that she is drawn to the gay community because they understand what she is doing.
“They get how it’s cheeky or how it’s poking fun, whereas sometimes other people can take longer to catch on,” she explained. “For some reason the gay community seems to be straightaway, like, ‘We get what you’re doing here,’ so I think that’s why I’ve worked and aligned myself with so many gay men more than anyone else.”
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