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With the debut of American Idiot on Broadway, Billie Joe Armstrong interviews with OUT magazine.
Reveals OUT:
Stuck in a shitty suburban high school in one of the roughest parts of the Bay Area, Armstrong -- along with future Green Day bandmates Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool -- threw himself into the music and “question everything” ethos. “There was a lot of queerness in the punk rock scene in that time, from Bikini Kill to Pansy Division,” Armstrong says. “It was just in the air. And I felt like a part of it.”
When Armstrong was 21, the band made the leap to a major label, released Dookie, and sold more albums in a few months than probably every band they’d ever played with put together. In 1994, Green Day took their former indie labelmates Pansy Division out on tour with them, and Armstrong told The Advocate, “I think I’ve always been bisexual. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.”
When Armstrong was 21, the band made the leap to a major label, released Dookie, and sold more albums in a few months than probably every band they’d ever played with put together. In 1994, Green Day took their former indie labelmates Pansy Division out on tour with them, and Armstrong told The Advocate, “I think I’ve always been bisexual. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.”
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