Anna Paquin has defended her status as a bisexual woman in a new Instagram post.
The 38-year-old actress – who has been married to Stephen Moyer since 2010 – said if her husband ‘doesn’t have a problem with it why should anyone else’.
Anna came out as bisexual in 2010 while she was engaged to Stephen, 51.
She shared a post to her social media on Wednesday that read: ‘I’m a #proudbisexual who is married to a wonderful human who happens to be a man.’
Proud: Anna Paquin has defended her status as a bisexual woman in a new Instagram post (pictured with husband Stephen Moyer in 2020)
In the caption she wrote: ‘If he doesn’t have a problem with it why should anyone else? #loveislove #f**kbierasure #bipride’
The True Blood star shares two children – twins Poppy and Charlie, both eight – with Stephen.
The pair married in 2010 after meeting on the set of the TV show True Blood in 2008 and welcomed their twins in 2012.
An hour earlier, Anna had posted, ‘FYI (for those unaware) June is LGBTQIA+ pride month. So the folks who put their bigotry on display in the comment sections of my recent posts why don’t you hit that unfollow button right now.’
Honest: She shared a post to her social media on Wednesday that read: ‘I’m a #proudbisexual who is married to a wonderful human who happens to be a man’
Speaking out: The 38-year-old actress – who has been married to Stephen Moyer since 2010 – said if her husband ‘doesn’t have a problem with it why should anyone else’
Anna came out in 2010 during a public service announcement for the Give A Damn campaign, an anti-discrimination effort backed by singer Cyndi Lauper’s True Colours Fund.
She said: ‘I’m Anna Paquin. I’m bisexual and I give a damn.’
She added: ‘One hate crime is approximately committed every hour of every day in this country.’
Hitting back: An hour earlier, Anna had posted, ‘FYI (for those unaware) June is LGBTQIA+ pride month. So the folks who put their bigotry on display in the comment sections of my recent posts why don’t you hit that unfollow button right now’
Couple: Anna came out as bisexual in 2010 while she was engaged to Stephen, 51 (pictured in 2020)
Lauper, Whoopi Goldberg, Elton John and Sharon Osbourne were among the other stars who appeared in the announcement.
In June 2014, the Flack star tweeted a message similar to the one in her recent Instagram post saying: ‘Proud to be a happily married bisexual mother. Marriage is about love not gender.’
During an August 2014 interview, Larry King asked Anna if she is a ‘non-practicing bisexual’ because she married a man.
Discussion: In June 2014, the Flack star tweeted a message similar to the one in her recent Instagram post saying: ‘Proud to be a happily married bisexual mother. Marriage is about love not gender’
Family: The pair married in 2010 after meeting on the set of the TV show True Blood in 2008 and welcomed their twins in 2012
The actress replied, ‘I am married to my husband, and we are happily, monogamously married.’
When Larry followed up by asking, ‘But you were bisexual?’ she responded, ‘Well, I don’t think it’s a past-tense thing. … It doesn’t really work like that.’
In 2012, the Oscar winner told Zooey magazine that her sexual orientation was a ‘minor biographical detail,’ but that she felt compelled to speak out for LGBT rights.
She said: ‘If you’re going to talk about some cause in a way that’s meaningful, you should identify why it means something to you.
Candid: In 2019 she told The Guardian that that misunderstanding around her situation is fairly common because she is married
‘For a bisexual, it’s not about gender. That’s not the deciding factor for who they’re attracted to.’
In 2019 she told The Guardian that that misunderstanding around her situation is fairly common because she is married.
She said: ‘People understand the version of the world they live in, and if it’s outside their experience, then sometimes it frightens people, or they just don’t get it. And that’s fine.’
Anna received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 11 for her work in the 1993 film The Piano.