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Bad Bunny Addresses 'Queerbaiting' Accusations Over Feminine Clothes
“You do it because you want to and it makes you feel good and it makes you feel happy,” the pop star said in a recent interview.
Bad Bunny has opened up about those queerbaiting accusations.
In the wide-ranging interview, Vanity Fair asked Bad Bunny about everything from his sex life, growing up in Puerto Rico, religion, Latinidad, acting, and more. The interview also goes into his views on gender and clothing.
After mentioning that Bad Bunny has done things like kissing a male backup dancer, showing support for murdered trans women, and donning drag in a music video, Vanity Fair asked the singer about accusations of “queerbaiting” due to his penchant for skirts, jewelry, and other feminine clothes.
“I get an endless number of negative comments and sexist and homophobic ones, without being homosexual, for dressing like that,” Bad Bunny said. “Maybe the queer person suffers more, but it is not like I put on a skirt and go out and they say ‘Look, how cool.’ They’re going to attack me with all their force anyway.”
“You don’t know the reasons why a person is wearing that,” he added. “You weren’t in his mind when he decided to put on a skirt or a blouse. You don’t know what’s inside him, what’s in his heart.”
In the end, Bad Bunny thinks it’s not that complicated. He just wants to wear what he wants to wear, and he thinks everyone should have that right.
“You do it because you want to and it makes you feel good and it makes you feel happy,” he said.
This fall, Bad Bunny is co-starring with Gael García Bernal in the biopic Cassandro, about a gay Mexican luchador. Bernal plays Saúl Armendáriz, who would adopt the “Cassandro” name and character and win over thousands of fans as the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.”
Bad Bunny plays a love interest of his in the film.
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Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
