Anna Paquin admits bisexuality

Oscar winner Anna Paquin has come out as bisexual in a video campaign for gay rights advocates, surprising the True Blood star's fans and causing the organisation's website to crash.

The New Zealand actress' message came in a celebrity-laden public service announcement for the Give a Damn campaign, a web-based anti-discrimination effort backed by singer Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Fund.

"I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn," Paquin said before adding that "one hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country".

Sources on set told RadarOnline.com that Anna’s revelation came as a surprise to everyone.

Paquin last year confirmed that she is engaged to her boyfriend and True Blood co-star Stephen Moyer.

She recently admitted she was "surprised" to have fallen in love with Moyer after they worked together on the US vampire drama series.

She said: "Put it this way, I don't think anyone knew before we did. Clearly there was a reason we were cast in that particular combination but ... it's not like either of us were looking for love or anything trite like that. It wasn't something we saw happening."

Lauper, Whoopi Goldberg, Elton John and Sharon Osbourne were among the other stars who appeared in the True Colors Fund message.

"I've come to realise equality means a lot to people who don't have it and that, as a straight person, I have a responsibility to stand up for gay and transgender people each and every day," Lauper said in a statement.

Paquin's assertion came as a surprise to fans of her work on television and in the movies, where she won an Oscar for best supporting actress at age 11 in 1993's The Piano, because she had not previously said she was bisexual.

The organisation said in a Twitter message that it's website, wegiveadamn.org, crashed due to overwhelming traffic.

 

Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/3543851/Anna-Paquin-admits-bisexuality

VIDEO: http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/04/video-gay-rights-website-crashes-after-anna-paquin-bisexual-bombshell

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