How come everyone thinks that you're a homosexual if you tell them you like justin bieber?

I mean this is a free country and we're supposed to listen to whatever type of music you like and you shouldn't get criticized for it. I'm in my junior year at high school in New York and this is how people treat me, calling me a gay and a homosexual 24/7. I went to a Justin Bieber concert with my 12 year old sister about a week ago I think right here and people think it's odd. Music doesn't define sexuality, it clearly does not. Same thing like If I say that if you listen to Rap then you're black, you see what I'm saying. People say I will never get married but I don't believe it.

People think you're a homosexual if you're a guy and like Justin Bieber because he is being sold to girls and is so effeminate to the point where people think that he might be gay.

Justin Bieber is not gay. He has pretty much proven that he is not gay. None of his lyrics would indicate that he has ever even been bi-curious at one time due to hormones, but that might be because he's never hit puberty (or at least that's what his voice tells us). He's been in interviews talking about girls, he's only ever been caught looking at girls, he only sings about girls (but his lyrics are written by him), he's only ever asked out girls. My sister just got a new issue of Tiger Beat in the mail. On the cover was Justin Bieber talking about the kinds of girls he likes on page whatever. If he's gay, then he's being told what to say in these interviews, and being told how to act in public, and being told who he needs to go out with (disney does the same thing with their "musicians"). We already know that he's being told what to sing and being told how to dance, why not these other things as well. He's a metrosexual, which is a straight guy who looks and acts effiminate, just like the gay stereotype.

He's an image. That's all he is. He basically signed a contract telling him what he will be singing about, how he will be dancing, what interviews he will go to, ect. This image, like any image, has a central demographic, or target audience. The target audience of Justin Bieber are young girls between the ages of 7-19. Anyone outside this demographic is likely, but slightly unexpected. Their goal with JB was to get young girls, not boys, but they are welcome to enjoy his sounds just like their target audience does. Being a teenage guy who likes Justin Bieber, you are not in that target audience, and some people view it as weird. Because you're a guy who likes something effeminate, you're not seen as "manly". Because you're not seen as "manly", and the gay stereotype is flamboyant and girly (the opposite of "manly"), they see you as gay because you tend to represent that stereotype instead of it's opposite. They might also see that you are uncomfortable with the label, so they will antagonize you because of your insecurites about your sexuality.

I am open about my sexual orientation because I am comfortable with it. Whenever anyone tries to pick on me because of it, I just tell them I'm proud, and they can no longer hold it against me. They could never hold it against me. Why? Because I am proud, because I'm comfortable. I don't care who knows it. I don't care what anyone thinks of me. I'm myself, my own person. I act how I want to act. If other people don't like it, that's too bad for them.

Being "manly" is overrated. I tell people that I'm not manly. Admitting that you're not is more "manly" than saying you are. I don't say that I'm not because I want to appear more "manly", I say it because I honestly don't fit that stereotype. Why become "manly"? I don't see a point to being gruff and tough, and huge, and sleeping around, and being a jerk to everyone. I'm comfortable enough with myself to the point where I will skip down the halls with my friends, and paint my nails, and dance, and I'll do whatever else comes to mind with the effeminate stereotype. That's the most "manly" thing anyone could ever do. It's not masculine, but at the same time it's "manly". I like music that other people don't like. I don't care what they think of it. The important thing is that I like it. Take comfort in knowing that you are more "manly" than any of them will ever be just by being yourself. As much as I don't like Justin Bieber, I don't hold it against people who do like him. The important thing is that someone likes them.

Beyonce sings 'Halo' for little girl with luekemia

R&B singer, Beyonce Knowles has been on the mouth of many in recent days. First it was the VMAs when she called Taylor Swift up onto the stage to finish her interrupted acceptance speech. And now Beyonce wows a crowd and her fans worldwide as she sings a tribute to a sick little girl in Sydney, Australia.

With the image of Michael Jackson in the background, Beyonce invited little Chelsea up to the stage as she performed her song, "Halo." Chelsea, who has Leukemia, is seen crying as the wind blows back her little hair, most of which she has lost from Chemotherapy treatments. There is not a dry eye in the audience as Beyonce personalizes the lyrics for the weeping little girl. At the end of the performance Beyonce and Chelsea embrace.

Kudos to Beyonce for using her gift of music to touch the life of a child.

What are your thoughts on the moving performance? Are you a fan of Beyonce's music?

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It made her and many of the 15,000 concertgoers cry.

"I was breathless," Chelsea said.

The video clip of the tribute has swept around the world, boosting Beyonce's popularity and making the girl from Newcastle an instant star.

Yesterday Chelsea channelled the energy and girl power of Beyonce with a performance of her own at a children's hospital.

Singing her own version of Halo, Chelsea strutted her stuff at the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle.

"I sang a couple of other songs from Beyonce," she said. "I've been doing it since I was four."

Just like the real star, Chelsea was swarmed by her fans, who wanted to know what it was like to be on stage with an international pop star.

But had it not been for a kind-hearted stranger who met the little girl at the Ronald McDonald House at Randwick, the memorable moment would never have occurred.

Chelsea won over a volunteer cleaner at the kids' charity house and was offered a gold reserve ticket.

The pop star's management moved Chelsea closer to the stage.

"The first I knew of it was at 1am when Chelsea was screaming and crying telling me she had been on stage with Beyonce," said her mother Donna James.

Chelsea's brothers Ryan and Beau and sister Jasmine have been unable to watch the clip as the family has been saving for a computer.

Beyonce is also scheduled to perform in Malaysia.

The second time may be the charm for fans of Beyoncé, below, in Malaysia. Two years after canceling a show in that predominantly Muslim country, she said she would perform in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 25, The Associated Press reported. Beyoncé canceled her 2007 concert after the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party and other groups threatened protests over her provocative clothing and image. On Sunday Sabki Yusof of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party said that his organization would send a protest note to the government over the concert. "We are not against entertainment as long as it is within the framework of our culture and our religion," Mr. Sabki said. "We are against Western sexy performances. We don't think our people need that." Artists like Avril Lavigne, Gwen Stefani and most recently the Black Eyed Peas have faced similar resistance in Malaysia. Muslims there were initially banned from attending the Black Eyed Peas concert, scheduled for this Friday, because it was sponsored by a beer company. The government has since reversed that ban.

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