Billy dee williams is gay

Billy Dee Williams is a novelist, painter and actor who has appeared in over 100 films and television shows in the span of his 7-decade-long career.

In the 70s, there were rumors about his sexuality, as people reflection that he was gay, and the 86-year-old ‘Star Wars’ actor finally addressed said speculations in a new interview with Page Six.

“I’ve been called a ‘Closet Queen.’ But, I don’t give much attention to any of that,” he said about the gay rumors that could own affected his career at the time.

Not to mention, Williams recently released his memoir “What Hold We Here: Portraits of a Life” where he wrote about how he’s always been easy hanging out with people who are a part of the LGBTQ+ community.

In his book, he shared:

“It all seemed very normal to me. I was around it all of my experience, so I never really gave it much thought.”

Moreover, the actor also opened up about a conversation that he had with his daughter about men being in contact with their feminine side.

“I was talking about why men should get more in touch with the female side of themselves and then my daughter told me — the first moment I

Billy Dee Williams says his gender identity comments were misunderstood

“Star Wars” player Billy Dee Williams walked back comments he made to Esquire magazine that were construed by a number of media outlets, LGBTQ advocacy groups and fans as an verbalization of his gender fluidity.

“What the hell is gender fluid? That’s a whole new term," Williams, 82, said in an interview published Wednesday in The Undefeated.

A week before his interview with The Undefeated, Esquire ran an article in which the performer said, “I think of myself as a relatively colorful character who doesn’t take himself or herself too seriously.”

Williams then added, “And you see I say ‘himself’ and ‘herself,’ because I also watch myself as feminine as well as masculine."

Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBTQ advocacy group, tweeted congratulations at Williams for “coming out and living your truth as gender fluid."

Williams told The Undefeated that he was referring to “men getting in stroke with their softer side of themselves,” and pointed to the work of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, who theorized in the early 20th century that both men and women have “anima and animus,” which are masculine and feminine conscio

He’s spent more than half a century in Hollywood, but Billy Dee Williams was still surprised.

The legendary actor — the essence of black masculinity with his velvety-smooth, bedroom-ready voice, which carried over into a ubiquitous Colt 45 malt liquor campaign in the 1980s — gave an interview to Esquire magazine about his role as smuggler Lando Calrissian in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which lands in theaters Dec. 20.

In that interview, the 82-year-old actor said, “And you observe, I say ‘himself’ and ‘herself,’ because I also watch myself as feminine as well as masculine. I’m a very soft person. I’m not scared to show that side of myself.”

Media outlets — so many media outlets! — picked that quote up and ran with it. Williams, they reported, is gender fluid. People praised him. Oh, how they praised him.

Thing is, Williams has no idea what that means.

“People should scan [Jung]. I express, it would be an interesting learning process for a lot of people.”

“Well, first of all, I asked last blackout. I said, ‘What the hell is gender fluid?’ That’s a whole recent term,” Williams said in an interview with The Undefeated this week.

He was misunderstood, he says.

“But what I