USA Today
26 Jun 2000

Transcribed by Lita

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That I have explored my sexuality is accurate and I have no shame about
that and would, if I fell in love with a woman, have as few qualms about
expressing it as if I were a man.  I have only ever been in love with one
woman.  One other, years ago, when I was 20, I simply slept with selfishly
for sexual exploratory purposes.  Though of course I loved her, I was not, as
they say, 'in love' with her.  The one I was in love with was a brief
relationship conducted more recently with a lovely American woman who was an
angel to me and saved my life in many ways and to whom I owe a very great
debt of love and gratitude.  And whom I still adore, although we are no
longer a couple, I love her deeply.  These are the only homosexual
experiences I have had so far.  Of perhaps thirty people I've been with since
eleven years of age, two have been woman, the rest men.  I am rarely
attratced to women but loved making love with the woman I loved.

I believe it was overcompensating of me to declare myself a lesbian. It
was not a publicity stunt.  I was trying to make someone else feel better,
and have subsequently caused pain for myself.

I am not in a box of any description.

Love,

Sinéad O'Connor