Michael Stipe Comes Out Of The Closet Again — This One’s For The Kids! March 17, 2008

Don’t lose any sleep over this ladies, but R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe is… gay. Oh, what’s that you say? You’ve known about this for 20+ years? Yeah, but this time it’s official!

In the new issue of Spin magazine, Stipe says:

“It was super complicated for me in the ’80s. I was totally open with the band and my family and my friends and certainly the people I was sleeping with. I thought it was pretty obvious. “

(Don’t worry, it was.)

Stipe adds:

“I’d just never felt strongly enough about a particular relationship to say, ‘Yeah, he’s my boyfriend, that is what it is.’ Now I recognize that to have public figures be very open about their sexuality helps some kid somewhere out there.”

Indeed it does, though I’m not entirely sure many kids know who Stipe is these days. Are any of the Jonas Brothers gay?

[via Queerty]