Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen

Bowie "outed" himself as a bisexual in some interview in the 70s, but it was all just an image/marketing hike. Eventually he decided it was more of a detriment to be perceived as such, so he declared that he wasn't really bisexual at all - he described himself, humorously, as a "closet heterosexual", which he had been for a "long time".