As per this Hollywood Reporter article, Clive Davis opens up about his current relationship with a man and his failed marriage with a woman (although he does have three adult sons from that relationship).
In case you are not sure who Clive Davis is, this is the guy who “discovered” or at least signed such acts as Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston, Alicia Keys, Barry Manilow, Santana and dozens more.
He is still an executive with Sony Music - and still a powerful force in the music industry despite being 80 years old.
I am sure this sudden open discussion has something to do with an upcoming autobiography - but I guess “better late than never” would be an apt description of the news.
I don’t know who Clive Davis is, but when I first saw the thread title, I was getting the name mixed with with Clive Cussler, so you can imagine my confusion.
So was I. Actually, it occurs to me that I can’t think of any well-known entertainment figure about whom I would be really surprised if they came out as bisexual.
(Is it wrong of me to add “especially male British ones”? Don’t get me wrong, I think British male actors in general are very manly* and I adore several of them, but British guys, at least the famous ones, just seem to come across as being less hung up about sexual orientation categories than non-Brits.)
Standard disclaimer: Not that bisexual or homosexual men are necessarily any less manly than heterosexual men, of course; I put that in just because when somebody says that they wouldn’t be surprised if so-and-so turned out to be bisexual or homosexual, that is commonly interpreted as being a dig at so-and-so’s manliness, and I repudiate that interpretation.
