R&B Singer Tank appeared on Lip Service to promote his new album, Elevation.

There, the vocalist made the argument that going down on a man once or twice doesn't automatically make you gay.

"Because the art of being gay is being gay,” Tank said.

“Sucking dick doesn’t make you gay.”

While I have absolutely heard those words in a porno right before two guys go down on each other in a locker room sauna, this time, they came from R&B singer Tank.

While appearing on the podcast Lip Service to promote his new album, Elevation, Tank found himself in a debate about what constitutes whether a man is a liar. Host Angela Yee was arguing that lying once automatically makes a man is a liar, similar to the way a man sucking a dick once (or twice) makes him gay (or bi). Her argument, in short, is that actions dictate a person’s identity.

Tank, however, broke this down a little, explaining that just because you’ve experimented with another man, that doesn’t mean you’re gay.

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“He sucked a dick once and then he’s like, ‘I’m not sure if I liked it or not. Let me try again.’ And then he says, ‘You know what, it’s not for me…’” the singer said, “It doesn’t mean he’s gay. It means he sucked dick twice. Because the art of being gay is being gay.”

He’s 100% right. And not to put words in Tank’s mouth, but when he says the “art of being gay is being gay”—I believe Tank is speaking to all the components that fully form a queer identity. You have to actually like being with other men—either romantically or sexually. That’s why no one calls a gay man straight or bisexual simply because he’s slept with women in the past. If he didn’t like being with women, then clearly, he’s not straight or bi. That’s because there’s more that goes into forming an identity that the act in and of itself.

Also, some bicurious men need to suck a dick to see if they like it. Like Hawaiian pizza, some guys need to take a bite to realize, “Oh yeah, definitely not into this,” whereas other men can look at that pie and immediately know, “I will not enjoy this.”

Thank you Tank, for making that distinction and giving men permission to explore whether they enjoy pineapple on their pizza—or I guess, in this case, sausage.

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Zachary Zane Zachary Zane is a Brooklyn-based writer, speaker, and activist whose work focuses on lifestyle, sexuality, culture, and entertainment.

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