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Gardley feels that Shug is bisexual, and Celie, despite being married to a man, is a lesbian. “Celie says she hates having sex with Mister,” Gardley said. “And Shug says, ‘You still a virgin’.”.

But not every adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has been so frank about Celie’s sexual orientation. And a new movie musical version of the story, in theaters Dec. 25, has.