The Fall Out Boy rocker, who is expecting his first child with new wife
Ashlee Simpson, insists he is happily married and only interested in women.
Pete, who has previously referred to himself as "half gay", told Out
magazine: "When I'm going down the street I get called a fag all the time.
I'm still getting called the same names as when I was 13.
"There's a little bit of a gay witch hunt. I don't know if it's to bust
homophobia wide open or get more attention. It's like, 'This person's gay,
this person's gay, this person's gay.'
"When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual
rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.
The last time I experimented was probably when I was 22.
"I've always felt this relentless heterosexual drive."
Pete also laughed off rumors Ashlee's father Joe - an ordained Baptist
minister - banned him from visiting the family home last year.
The 29-year-old rocker said: "That rumor was such bulls**t. We laughed
about it. Joe was like, 'We should take a picture in front of the Christmas
tree holding hands.'
"I know I'm going to get a reaction when I say things. I don't get on stage
and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer."
Wentz also said he is apprehensive about borrowing from gay culture: He added: "If I was gay and I saw people playing with it, being ambiguous, I don't really know how I would feel. I look back at Elvis and I'm like, 'Was Elvis a dick?'"
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