Josh Hutcherson Tells ‘Out’ Magazine That He’s ‘Mostly Straight’ But . . .

"I could meet a guy and be ... attracted to this person.”

Josh Hutcherson, star of the Hunger Games series of films, is featured in the new issue of Out magazine and in his very open feature interview, he opens up about his sexuality and more. Josh tells the mag that right now, he is “100% straight” but he also confesses that he is open to possibility of meeting a guy and being sexually attracted to him. HMMM. Additionally, Hutcherson tells the magazine that he knows the perfect way to solve the love triangle problem in The Hunger Games story (between Katniss and her two loves Peeta and Gale) is just have a threesome. Problem solved! Click below to read more nuggets of genius from Josh‘s interview and see some photos from his photospread.

We’ve barely started lunch, and I’m nowhere near my usual open-ended sexuality question, when Josh Hutcherson offers this: “I would probably list myself as mostly straight.” That “mostly” is what makes Hutcherson winningly uninhibited, but also typical of his generation. New research published in The New York Times in 2010 shows that an increasing number of guys his age identify as “mostly straight,” and Hutcherson’s ease in embracing ambiguity over neat and secure boxes speaks to his self-assurance. “Maybe I could say right now I’m 100% straight,” he says. “But who knows? In a fucking year, I could meet a guy and be like, Whoa, I’m attracted to this person.” Hutcherson grew up in Union, Ky., a small town close to the Ohio border, and his slouchy, chill California vibe is still tinged with a soft Southern accent. Everything he says sounds easygoing. “I’ve met guys all the time that I’m like, Damn, that’s a good-looking guy, you know?” he 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” … Hutcherson seems delighted by the complicated nature of human sexuality, but he doesn’t take sex too seriously—“Sometimes the rhythm isn’t right or you’re trying to make a new position work and it really doesn’t, and you have to laugh”—and isn’t allergic to oversharing. Of nude photos it’s rumored he posted to a dating site, he shrugs off any comment except to say, “I find it so shocking still that nakedness is so shocking” … He definitely doesn’t understand judgmental attitudes toward gay people, which is why he cofounded Straight But Not Narrow, a youth organization that focuses on arming allied kids with the confidence and tools they need to speak out against homophobia. “Sometimes it’s frustrating to comprehend how people are not OK with it. If you can try to tell me how it’s hurting you, you’re crazy. You’re absolutely crazy. Like, what do you mean it’s not natural? Even if — even if, which, I disagree, but even if — why the fuck do you care?” t helps that he was clearly well-adjusted before getting into the business. The Hutcherson family Golden Rule was “Treat people the way you want to be treated,” a simple moral compass that kept him out of trouble when he left Kentucky and started acting at age 9. He worked steadily playing a series of sweet but-moody kids on TV and the big screen, studying with tutors on set. But unlike some child stars, he doesn’t have regrets about skipping out on school—except one: “I would have liked to start a GSA or help out kids that were feeling bullied or discriminated against.”

Maybe because the films are so intense, and because he spends so much time answering the same banal questions at press junkets, Hutcherson seems to relish the opportunity to lighten the mood. When I suggest a threesome might be a more expedient solution to at least some of Peeta’s problems, he immediately agrees: “I know Peeta would be into it, for sure. He’s very sensitive, in touch with his emotions. I think it really might solve a lot of their problems. You know what? I’m going to pitch that idea. Let’s make it a—what’s it called when three people are in a relationship together? A triad?” He rolls his eyes at his own enthusiasm. “That’ll go over well with Middle America.”

This is great. To have an educated young man talk so openly about sexuality in an intelligent way is so refreshing, I don’t even know how to handle it. IMHO, this is the kind of attitude that people should have … one of open honesty. Josh likes women. Great. But if he meets a guy that he’s attracted to, then that’s fine with him. This is the kind of thing that not many people would admit to. That so many young people look up to Josh as a role model is heartening because I think he makes a good one. The rest of Josh‘s interview with Out magazine can be read HERE and it’s a read worth your time. Josh speaks very intelligently about many things that just, sigh, makes me so happy. We are so used to banal interview questions and answers and rarely are we treated to responses like Hutcherson‘s which are well thought out and enlightening. I love to read more interviews like this one but I know they’ll come few and far between. Josh is so awesome for being so open and honest, I have to say. His stock just went up considerably in my book.

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