See, Garfield’s no stranger to controversy about the demographic identity of Peter Parker. It’d be even better-we’d have interracial bisexuality!” “And I was like, ‘What if MJ is a dude?’ Why can’t we discover that Peter is exploring his sexuality? It’s hardly even groundbreaking!…So why can’t he be gay? Why can’t he be into boys?… I’ve been obsessed with Michael B. “I was kind of joking, but kind of not joking about MJ,” he tells EW.