12. Clive Davis
Rarely do you see one of the “heavy hitters” come out, but we must applaud Clive Davis, CEO of Sony Music Entertainment for this act. He came out in his autobiography, stating that he had sex with several men in the last twenty years. He was married twice and has four kids.
In his memoirs, The Soundtrack of my Life, he explains who he is and what he is made of.
He writes, “Everything stayed outside the public glare as I tried to figure out my new bisexuality.”
“To my intense disappointment when I did try to probe all this in conversation with others, it turned out that no one really believed in bisexuality. Heterosexuals and homosexuals alike didn’t credit one word of any explanation I offered..” As far as others were concerned, “if at any time, for any reason, you had sex with a man, you were gay. That’s all there was to it.”
“I had not been at all repressed or confused during either of my marriages,” Davis writes. At the time of this first encounter, he was still living in the same house as his second wife but, for the sake of a child, was putting off physical separation. “I hadn’t fantasized about men… I was not at all interested in anonymous sex. But sex with a male didn’t repulse me, and it provided welcome relief,” he continues.
He also says something about “still the era of Studio 54” and how he was approached by a young man of about 25 and, “after imbibing enough alcohol, I was open to responding to his sexual overtures, my first such encounter with a male.”