ABC/Yolanda Perez(NEW YORK) — There’s straight, gay, bisexual, and now there’s “quasi-straight.”
That’s according to The View host Rosie Perez, who says she had a lesbian encounter while in Catholic school, dubbing herself “quasi-straight.”
“I met this girl named Michelle, [and] all I wanted to do was hump her…and I suppressed the urge until Michelle, one day, started humping on me,” Rosie told a crowd at an event hosted by LGBT organization the Trevor Project, according to The New York Post‘s Page Six.
Parez continued, “I’m not the only one who went through this questioning period. I’m not the only one that suppressed those feelings, who hid their story.”
Perez clarified: “I’m not lesbian, gay or whatever. I’m a quasi-straight person. I still went through that period, and thought I was all alone.”
Perez, who is also starring in Broadway’s Fish in the Dark, said eventually Michelle ended their friendship. “I remember that hurt and that hurt kept me silent, and that silence brought shame,” she explained. “I didn’t have a community. No, I’m not gay, lesbian, transgender…but I’m a human being.”
Perez is now married to artist Eric Haze.
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