Diplo doesn’t want to “define” his sexuality – but in a new interview he has said he’s “not not gay”.
The DJ told Emily Ratajkowski in Tuesday’s episode of her High Low podcast that he isn’t “aroused by men that much,” though he said, “I’m sure I’ve gotten a blow job from a guy before. … For sure. 100 [per cent].”
The model, 31, then asked Diplo, 44, whether he had a “specific memory,” Page Six reports.
“I don’t know,” he said. “I mean, getting a blow job is not that gay, I think.”
Ratajkowski was the first to bring up Diplo’s sexual orientation early in the episode.
“We should talk about what you said to me last night, which is that you’re a little gay,” she said.
“You want to cut right into that?” he asked. “I was really into the social media [questions].”
The pair then spoke about TikTok and Instagram, when Diplo, whose real name is Thomas Wesley Pentz, mentioned that “sexy” woodchopping men often featured on his feed.
“They’re hot guys. I don’t know if that’s gonna be the thing that’s gonna send me over to the gay side totally,” he joked, asking whether TikTok “tell[s] you that you’re gay”.
Ratajkowski confirmed, saying, “I was on lesbian TikTok for a while, and it was like, ‘OK. Insightful.’”
Later in the interview, the model again brought up Diplo’s sexuality, saying the possibility of him being gay was “exciting”.
“You should be happy. … I could just be talking to you only about your relationships to women. I like that you’re a little flexible,” she said.
Diplo clarified that he doesn’t “want to define that [he’s] gay”.
“I think the best answer I have is I’m not not gay. There are a couple guys … I could date, life partner-wise.”
After saying he is “more of a vibe guy … over gender,” the Grammy winner spoke about how “the temperature of our culture has changed” with men being more “fluid”.
He said, “[When I was young], you had gay kids at school and gay cousins or whatever, but it was different than it is now. I thought it was, like, weird to be gay.”
Over the years, Diplo has publicly been in relationships with singer Katy Perry and British rapper M.I.A.
He has sons Lockett, 13, and Lazer, 9, with Kathryn Lockhart, as well as son Pace, 2, with Jevon King.
In 2019, Diplo responded to speculation about his sexuality via Twitter, calling masculinity a “prison”.
Three years prior, he tweeted that he was “only half gay”.
This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission