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MUSIC: Pete out loud and proud

Pete Wentz poses on the cover of a gay magazine - next to the words: "Yeah, I am a fag." The Fall Out Boy rocker - who is married to singer Ashlee Simpson and expecting his first child with his wife - tells the publication that he is often accused of being a homosexual.

And he says he has helped flame those rumours by telling of his same-sex experiences in past interviews.

He said: "When I'm going down the street I get called a fag all the time.

"We have iPhones, and I'm still getting called the same names as when I was 13.

"[But] I've always felt this relentless heterosexual drive.

He added: "When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that.

"And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was."

He says the first time he kissed a guy was when he was 16- or 17-years old.

"Like, 'You make out with this dude and we'll make out,' he recalls.

And he says his most recent man-on-man experience was when he was 22.

He adds: "Our culture bombards us with this idea that you're not that, and if you are that, there's something wrong with you, and then we're going to call you that, and then it's an insult.

"There is a sense of self-empowerment or recapturing who you are by people calling you 'fag,' and being like, 'Yeah, I am a fag.'

Even though you're not. "What does somebody respond? That dude has nothing to say about that again."

But the mascara-wearing star said he didn't like to borrow from gay culture - in the way Elvis Presley was heavily influenced by black music.

He added: "If I was gay and I saw people playing with it, being ambiguous, I don't really know how I would feel.

"I look back at Elvis and I'm like, 'Was Elvis a dick?'

"I'm like the boy next door, but just a little bit off.

And the 29-year-old told the August 2008 issue of the US gay lifestyle magazine that he was worried about how readers would react to him being the cover star.

He asked the publication: "Will you get flak for having someone like me on the cover?"

The issue is on newsstands in America now.

Source: www.nz.entertainment.yahoo.com