I can see why certain celebrities – who are gay or busy balancing the books – come out as bisexual, rather than go the full ‘G’. It’s not a bad business move to cover all bases and stretch your sexual appeal to the widest possible audience: gay men, straight women, other bisexuals and the curious.

The other big advantage of coming out as bisexual – which some people regard as a cop-out – is that there isn’t the same baggage attached to it. If a male celebrity, who’s probably had plenty of whispers about him, finally comes out as gay, suddenly it’s all about buggery and the public now see him as camp, a bit girly and special interest, even if he’s as hard as Mike Tyson – their years of cultivated image is straight down the pan.

Being bisexual doesn’t have the same associations and is much more of a mystery to a lot of people – probably where this distrust on both sides comes from. So it’s far easier for a celeb to bolt this onto their current public persona and, if your record sales start to dip, you’ve left the closet door open just enough to slip back and marry a supermodel without raising too many eyebrows… David Bowie.

I say the battle for openly gay celebs is lost, at least for now and until the majority of people can think outside the pink box. I say we need more bisexual celebs – hundreds/thousands of them – with straight celebs coming out as bi as a way of support. This mass onslaught of ambiguous sexuality by public figures would be too much for small minds to take and they would explode, barriers would be broken on a massive scale and nobody would care anymore, because it would be too difficult to divide people into easy groups.

The fight could then be taken to the grass roots level with as many people as we can get putting their signature to the Big Bi List – if you’re gay, suddenly announce to everyone that you’re now bisexual; get your straight friends and family to do it. Then maybe we can all just get over it, realise we’re not that different and move on.