14 DAY TRIAL // Fans know and love him as Peeta Mellark in “The Hunger Games” movies but, as it turns out, Josh Hutcherson is just as amazing in real life too. In his new interview with Out Magazine, the actor refuses to be assigned a label as far as his orientation is concerned, saying he identifies as “mostly straight.”
Celebrities usually offer very definite answers when asked if they’re gay or straight but Hutcherson thinks the lines shouldn’t be so clearly drawn. At least in his case, they’re not.
“I would probably list myself as mostly straight. Maybe I could say right now I’m 100% straight. But who knows? In a [expletive]-ing year, I could meet a guy and be like, Whoa, I’m attracted to this person. I’ve met guys all the time that I’m like, Damn, that’s a good-looking guy, you know?” Josh says.
“I’ve never been, like, Oh, I want to kiss that guy. I really love women. But I think defining yourself as 100% anything is kind of near-sighted and close-minded,” he continues.
Because he believes everyone should be free to decide whom to date or live with or even marry, Josh has co-founded the youth organization Straight but Not Narrow.
Through it, he aims to prove that one’s lifestyle choices should not impact anyone else but that person and their family. As he sees it, the world shouldn’t care whether gay marriage is “natural” or not because, we quote, “why the [expletive] do you care?”
People’s business is people’s business, he seems to be saying.
“I have this dream that one day, my kid’s gonna come home from school and be like, ‘Dad, there’s this girl that I like, and there’s this guy that I like, and I don’t know which one I like more, and I don’t know what to do.’ And it’d just be a non-issue, like, ‘Which one is a good person? Which one makes you laugh more?’,” Josh continues, explaining how he dreams for a brighter, less hateful future.