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Celebrities y'all might not know are LGTBQ+

The LGBTQ+ customs has been integral to the performing arts (and the tech backside said arts) for as long as there has been performing arts, even though many members of the amusement industry were at times reluctant to admit information technology. Back in the days of the Hays Code from the 1930s to the 1960s, movies depicting same-sex love interests were censored by studios. Even today, movies featuring gay sexual practice or LGBTQ+ characters are typically rated more than strictly than movies with directly characters.

Given the stigma around showing LGBTQ+ content on the silver screen, it makes sense that celebrities who place as being LGBTQ+ haven't always been able to speak freely nearly their status. It wasn't too long ago that the entertainment manufacture took every conceivable measure to keep the sexual orientation of its foremost stars nether wraps. Look no further than Quondam Hollywood actor Stone Hudson, whose homosexuality remained a tightly guarded secret during the elevation of his fame.

Thankfully, many of today's LGBTQ+ celebrities aren't overly pressured into keeping their status a secret. Also, both the entertainment manufacture and club take fabricated strides since the heyday of Rock Hudson, at least in terms of how both those entities approach and accept sexual identity. This increased visibility of LGBTQ+ celebrities matters. Celebrities speaking openly about their identity and experiences tin help destigmatize LGBTQ+ identities and boost the self-esteem of LGBTQ+ people past allowing them to meet that there are successful people out there who are like them.

Stacker curated a list of 50 major celebrities in the LGBTQ+ community who take made meaning contributions to the community itself and/or the entertainment manufacture. Although at that place is all the same quite a way for culture to get when it comes to the inclusion of LGBTQ+ individuals, information technology's increasingly apparent that a celebrity'southward sexual orientation demand non be the career detriment it may take been in the past. In fact now, more than ever, celebrities are speaking up for LGBTQ+ communities and becoming celebrated advocates for them. Merely look at Billy Eichner vying for more overtly gay characters in Tv set and moving picture. Or Lil Nas Ten, who has become an LGBTQ+ icon after spending years closeted with no plans to publicly come out.

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Miley Cyrus

Since graduating from the function of Hannah Montana in 2011, actress and vocalizer Miley Cyrus hasn't shied abroad from expressing her sexuality through performance art—sometimes to downright scandalous event. That said, it wasn't until 2015 that Cyrus announced she was gender-fluid, meaning she doesn't exclusively identify with one particular gender. In the fourth dimension since, she'south become a passionate and vocal abet for various LGBTQ+ issues. Her organization, Happy Hippie Foundation, concentrates on youth homelessness, the LGBTQ+ community, and other vulnerable populations.

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Elliot Page

Elliot Page, famous for roles in "Juno," "Hard Candy," "Tallulah,"  and "Inception," in 2014 alleged his LGBTQ+ identity during a powerful spoken language at a man rights conference. Page came out as transgender in December 2020; his public pronouncement and subsequent interview with Time was celebrated for giving hope to those struggling with their identities or those facing internal or external barriers to coming out publicly. Page also graced the cover of Fourth dimension mag in 2021, condign the start openly trans man to do and then.

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Tim Cook

Apple CEO Tim Cook came out in 2014 in a poignant Bloomberg editorial. "I'chiliad proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me," Cook said. While he doesn't consider himself an activist, Cook did one time tell Stephen Colbert that he felt a "tremendous responsibility" to speak up well-nigh his LGBTQ+ condition, particularly on behalf of all the young people who are bullied or even disowned considering of their sexuality.

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Drew Barrymore

In 2003, Drew Barrymore star told Contact Music, "I take always considered myself bisexual." She added, "I love a adult female'due south body. I recollect a adult female and a woman together are beautiful, only equally a man and a woman together are cute." Additionally, Barrymore has not simply been open nearly her bisexuality but also bug around mental wellness and addiction.

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Billie Joe Armstrong

Billie Joe Armstrong went mainstream in 1994 every bit the frontman to stone band Green Day. Just while the celebrity is no stranger to headlines, it's non widely known that he'due south been openly bisexual since 1995. That was when he told The Advocate: "I think I've always been bisexual… I call back people are born bisexual, and information technology's only that our parents and society kind of veer usa off into this feeling of, 'Oh, I can't.' They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when information technology's bully at all. It's a very beautiful affair." Armstrong besides touched upon his sexuality in the song "Coming Clean" from Dark-green Day's 1994 album "Dookie."

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Clive Davis

A powerful music mogul, Clive Davis is all-time known as the man who helped launch or revive the careers of Whitney Houston, Barry Manilow, and Billy Joel, among numerous other superstars. In 2013, the twice-married executive released an autobiography, "The Soundtrack of My Life," in which he detailed two long-term relationships with other men. In interviews, Davis has revealed being romantically involved with a male doc for 13 years, and some other human being whom he doesn't name.

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Fergie

Between her onetime gig with the Black Eyed Peas, her prior marriage to histrion Josh Duhamel, and her unpopular 2018 functioning of the national anthem, Fergie definitely manages to stay in the public consciousness year after year. What's lesser-known about the vocalizer, still, is that she's identified as bisexual since the early '00s. "I call up women are beautiful," she told The Abet. "I've had a lot of fun with women, and I'm not ashamed of it."

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Kristen Stewart

While a certain percentage of Kristen Stewart'south fan base probably prefers to remember of her as the perennial soulmate of "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson, the edgy actress has definitely moved on to new partners from both sides of the gender spectrum. Of course, that hasn't stopped the fans from clamoring for a reunion with Pattinson—or at least trying to box Stewart in equally far equally her sexual identity is concerned. In 2017, Stewart stated that she is bisexual, telling The Guardian, "You lot're non confused if you're bisexual. It'southward not disruptive at all. For me, it's quite the contrary."

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Kate McKinnon

It wasn't until she began watching sci-fi TV series "The X-Files" that the commencement openly gay adult female star of "SNL" Kate McKinnon said she realized she was attracted to women. Specifically, McKinnon found herself swooning over actress Gillian Anderson in the 1990s. Even decades later, McKinnon continues to draw Anderson as the "queen of my heart." McKinnon has also cited openly lesbian comedian and talk testify host Ellen DeGeneres as an inspiration and saluted the busy star at the 2020 Gilded Globes for encouraging her to pursue a career in Boob tube.

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Gillian Anderson

"X-Files" star Gillian Anderson in 2015 told The Telegraph that she'd previously engaged in same-sex relationships, and was open to doing so once more. "To me a human relationship is about loving another human being being; their gender is irrelevant," said Anderson. In improver to "The X-Files," Anderson starred in other popular TV shows like "The Fall," "Sex Didactics," and "The Crown."

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Lady Gaga

With her open-minded performance style, provocative lyrics, and massive LGBTQ+ fan base, it was non terribly shocking when popular star Lady Gaga identified as bisexual in a 2009 interview with Barbara Walters. Since then, the pop star has been defendant of possibly making up her LGBTQ+ status for marketing purposes. She addressed the accusations head-on during an album release political party and Q&A session in 2013, stating, "Information technology's non a lie that I am bisexual and I like women... This is who I am and who I have e'er been." Gaga has also been involved in many LGBTQ+ rights and mental health causes over the years, including launching her ain Born This Style Foundation to empower youth, forbid bullying, and amend mental health.

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Aubrey Plaza

In an interview with LGBTQ+ outlet The Advocate, Aubrey Plaza in 2016 spoke of having intense feelings for both sexes. "Girls are into me — that's no secret. Hey, I'yard into them too," said Plaza. "I autumn in love with girls and guys. I tin can't help information technology." She also pointed out that she emanates "masculine energy," and is attracted to men and women.

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Kristian Nairn

"Game of Thrones" fans will recognize thespian Kristian Nairn as Hodor, a hero who says nothing but his own proper noun when speaking. Prior to 2014, he'd not spoken publicly well-nigh his gay identity. In an interview with Winteriscoming.net that twelvemonth, though, Nairn explained: "I've never subconscious my sexuality from anyone, my whole life in fact, and I've been waiting for someone to ask most it in an interview, cos it's non something you simply blurt out."

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Frank Ocean

Frank Body of water, a fellow member of hip-hop collective Odd Future and breakout solo star, is among the biggest names in contemporary music. In 2012, he posted a statement on his Tumblr account, in which he seemed to declare his love for some other human being. " To my first love, I'm grateful for you," he expressed. "Grateful that even though it wasn't what I hoped for and fifty-fifty though it was never enough, it was." A few years later, Ocean released his album, "Blonde," to substantial acclamation and healthy sales numbers. As famous and respected now every bit he ever was, Ocean occasionally uses his celebrity status to assist spread LGBTQ+ awareness.

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Jason Collins

Given the outward sense of machismo that permeates professional person sports and its overzealous fan base, many LGBTQ+ athletes keep their sexuality a secret. Helping to change that is former NBA role player Jason Collins, who became the offset openly gay man to play in i of the four major professional squad sports. In a 2014 Sports Illustrated article written by Collins in which he announces his retirement, he expressed a want to meet more than of his fellow athletes come out without facing repercussions. "When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids … then coming out won't be such a big deal," Collins wrote, just ultimately conceded that we're "not there yet."

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Angelina Jolie

Actor and director Angelina Jolie has been openly LGBTQ+ for so long that some folks might accept forgotten about information technology. When asked in 2003 if she was bisexual, Jolie replied, "Of course. If I savage in honey with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's OK to want to osculation and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Admittedly! Yes!" Speaking with the old website Movieline in another interview, Jolie revealed: "When I was xx, I fell in dear with somebody who happened to be a woman. I was open about it (bisexuality) because I wanted people to know that I had been with a woman."

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Victor Garber

Actor Victor Garber has starred in films similar "Titanic" and "Argo," along with TV shows similar "Alias" and "The Flash." In 2013, he confirmed that he is gay, though he hadn't exactly been hiding his LGBTQ+ status—or his more than 20-year human relationship with Rainer Andreesen, for that matter. At the time, Garber said of his sexual orientation, "I don't actually talk about it, but everybody knows." The couple married in 2015.

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Raven-Symoné

Co-ordinate to a 2016 video for "It Gets Improve," extra and vocalist Raven-Symoné knew she was sexually attracted to other females as early on every bit the age of 12 but hid the fact from others. Raven-Symoné hasn't exactly become Hollywood royalty, just that might have more to practice with her critiques of various hip-hop figures than it does her LGBTQ+ status. In 2020, Raven-Symoné announced she'd married Miranda Maday, a social media manager, in an intimate wedding anniversary.

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Wanda Sykes

She might have been engaged to Krazee Eyez Killa on HBO's "Adjourn Your Enthusiasm," but in reality, Wanda Sykes prefers female partners. After coming out at a Prop 8 rally in 2008, the comedian claimed she was afterward treated like a "unicorn," in that most gay or bisexual African Americans don't openly share their LGBTQ+ statuses. Sykes, who however performs to sold-out crowds, has been married to her wife Alex since 2008. The couple became parents in April 2009.

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Charlie Carver

Known for his roles in shows like "Desperate Housewives" and "Teen Wolf," thespian Charlie Carver came out in 2016. Carver took to Instagram to make the declaration in an emotional message to his fans. Later, the actor claimed he made the conclusion in part because he was "ready to take on that conversation in a more public forum." Carver has since been vocal virtually Hollywood's tendency to perpetuate negative LGBTQ+ stereotypes, as well as pigeonholing openly gay actors into playing specific types of roles. Carver performed on Broadway in "The Boys in the Ring," which details the gay experience in 20th-century America earlier the Stonewall Riots occurred.

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Amber Heard

Star of the 2018 film "Aquaman," Amber Heard has been openly bisexual since 2010 when she was dating artist Tasya van Ree. Heard and Ree dated from 2008 to 2012. Heard remains quite vocal about achieving equal rights, not just for members of the LGBTQ+ community, merely for women in general. In a 2017 interview with Attraction, she acknowledged that gender inequality is far graver than she once suspected, saying, "I had been living with my caput in the sand…I did not realize how far nosotros take to become to be equal."

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Sarah Paulson

In a relatively brusque fourth dimension, Golden Earth-winner Sarah Paulson has gone from Hollywood scrap actor to i of Time's 100 Almost Influential People. Meanwhile, the versatile actress has been openly dating women for years, though she prefers that people don't call back of her every bit a lesbian. Since dating extra Ruby-red Jones and playwright Tracy Letts in years past, Paulson has been in a relationship with actress Holland Taylor since 2015.

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Bella Thorne

Actress, singer, and fashion designer Bella Thorne declared her bisexuality in true, modern mode. That is, she shared a picture of her kissing another girl on Snapchat, then confirmed that she was indeed a fellow member of the LGBTQ+ customs. Since that initial declaration, Thorne has made it a bespeak to live life the way she wants to, making no apologies or compromises for her choices. In 2019, the extra has stated that she identifies as pansexual.

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Amy Winehouse

Before her untimely expiry, singer Amy Winehouse was in the news for a diversity of things. So it would be no surprise that give-and-take of her bisexuality might have slipped under the radar. Winehouse's friends reported to News of the World that Winehouse in one case said, "I similar girls as well. … There is something virtually being with a woman that is very satisfying. I don't intendance what people think near me beingness bi—I practice what feels adept."

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Sir Alec Guinness

Best known for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, Sir Alec Guinness kept his sexual orientation—and his arrest for a homosexual human action in 1946—abroad from the public eye for the entirety of his adult life. It wasn't until after Guinness passed away that his bisexuality was revealed. According to reports by his biographers, however, Guinness' bisexuality had "always been known" to his family unit and friends.

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Marlon Brando

Actor Marlon Brando one time told his biographer, "Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. I have never paid much attention to what people recall about me." Unlike many of his contemporaries, Brando was an actor who could country desirable roles no thing what he chose to practise in his personal life. To this day, his performances are heralded as some of the best ever committed to the large screen. Amidst them include "The Godfather," "A Streetcar Named Desire," and "Apocalypse At present."

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Richard Pryor

According to music legend Quincy Jones, one of Marlon Brando'southward declared homosexual trysts was with one-act legend Richard Pryor in the 1970s. Jones made the claim in a controversial interview with Vulture in 2018, and his exclamation was later confirmed past Pryor's own widow, Jennifer Lee. "He'd fuck anything," Jones said of Brando. "Annihilation! He'd fuck a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye."

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Anna Paquin

After coming out as bisexual in 2010, and then marrying actor Stephen Moyer that same year, "True Claret" and "X-Men" actress Anna Paquin experienced some backlash from the LGBTQ+ community. At the time, Paquin described the outrage to her coming out as "hateful." In response, she said of her bisexuality, "I am a happily married adult female and I married a man. I don't call back that negates that aspect of my life." Accordingly, Paquin hasn't let anyone or anything stop her from speaking her mind virtually LGBTQ+ issues. Equally she told Cosmopolitan in 2014, "The reason I feel similar information technology'due south of import to talk about this stuff is that the more normal and, frankly, mundane and boring this stuff becomes, I think the ameliorate it's going to be for everyone who is part of our community."

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Lee Daniels

Long before directing movies like "Precious" or co-creating Play a joke on's "Empire," Lee Daniels was a young gay man coming to terms with his homosexuality while growing upward in Philadelphia. (Daniels, in 2015, antiseptic his sexuality, describing himself equally sexually fluid.) Equally Daniels told the Hollywood Reporter in 2017, his begetter once threw him in a trashcan after he came down the stairs wearing high heels—a scene that "Empire" fans may find familiar. The director's struggles would continue through the '80s equally his friends began dying from AIDS. Daniels considers it a "miracle from God" that he never contracted the mortiferous virus himself.

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Azealia Banks

Due to her liberal use of gay slurs on Twitter and in her lyrics, vocaliser Azealia Banks faced accusations of homophobia in 2015. Hoping to quash the controversy, Banks came out every bit bisexual that aforementioned year, adding that most all of her friends are gay and that 1 of her siblings is transgender. Speaking to The New York Times, Banks said, "I'm not trying to exist, like, the bisexual, lesbian rapper. I don't live on other people's terms."

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Lil Nas X

Hailing from a bourgeois upbringing just outside Atlanta, Georgia, rapper Lil Nas X knew he was going to take the cloak-and-dagger of his sexuality to his grave. He would later publicly come out as gay on the last day of Pride Month in June 2019. At the age of 19, Lil Nas X became a superstar thanks to his hit "Erstwhile Town Road." His superstardom, he discovered, also made him a hero among the queer community. Today, he embraces his part as a representative and icon for LGBTQ+.

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Janelle Monáe

Janelle Monáe presented herself as an enigma when she commencement flare-up on the scenes in 2010 with her debut anthology, "The ArchAndroid." What she presented to the earth was exactly that: an "immaculate android," or an "alien from outer space/the cybergirl without a confront." But every bit the earth began to get to know Monáe through her music, androgynous style, and prog-pop music, she let the world in on who the human is underneath. Originally she identified every bit bisexual but at present aligns as queer every bit she continues to learn nigh topics like pansexuality and how they resonate with her. Monáe has as well encouraged conversations on breaking the gender binary, tweeting the hashtag "#IAmNonbinary" in Jan 2020 in back up of Nonbinary Day.

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Brendon Urie

Panic! At The Disco frontman Brendon Urie is, as he puts information technology, attracted to "only people." The singer has been an advocate of the LGBTQ+ customs and officially came out in 2018 as pansexual. Speaking to PAPER Mag in 2018, Urie stated, "I'g married to a adult female and I'm very much in love with her but I'm not opposed to a man considering to me, I like a person. [...] If a person is great, then a person is bang-up." He also told Pink News, "Yeah, I guess yous could qualify me as pansexual considering I really don't care," he said, referring to gender. That aforementioned month, he donated $i million to GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, and Direct Education Network), which works to create inclusive and safe environments in schools.

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Andrew Scott

Many savage for Andrew Scott when they got to know him as "the hot priest" in the British comedy series, "Fleabag." For Scott, his LGBTQ+ "moment of fame" wasn't about coming out to the masses—he's been out for a while. (He outset spoke publicly near his sexuality in an interview with The Independent in 2013.) What got the media'due south attention was his distaste at being referred to as, "openly gay." He told GQ during an interview, "You're never described as openly gay at a party...'This is my openly gay friend Darren.' 'She'due south openly Irish.' It implies a defiance I don't experience."

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Lee Pace

While his nigh notable role of the last few years put being gay front and middle stage, role player Lee Pace was not always as forthcoming virtually his own sexuality. The thespian, who played Joe Pitt in "Angels in America" on Broadway, came out every fourth dimension he performed (as his grapheme). Information technology wasn't until 2018, yet, that he came out to the public as himself, Lee Stride. (Reportedly, all the same, Footstep made headlines in 2012 when his "Hobbit" co-star, Ian McKellen, accidentally described Pace as gay in an interview.)

In an interview with The New York Times, he fabricated it clear that his decision to go along quiet was to depict boundaries—that the public knew him equally an histrion who plays roles, and that's all that should matter. Pace was not ever met with the most welcoming circumstances. While he admits he was never outright scorned for being gay, there take been instances where he felt it was more of a hindrance than just a fact that shouldn't matter. He told The New York Times, "Once you say those words and the sky doesn't autumn downwardly, or the earth doesn't open up up, a lightning commodities doesn't zap you. You lot really tin be anything."

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Jason Mraz

Jason Mraz is all nigh the wordplay, though he doesn't mince words when it comes to his sexuality. The recording artist officially came out as bisexual in 2018, afterwards admitting that information technology was hard for him to do then given his conservative upbringing. (He penned an lover alphabetic character to the LGBTQ+ customs in 2018 for Billboard for Pride Month.) With the support of his now-married woman, however, Mraz has fully embraced all sides of his sexuality and has historic how easy it was for him to be honest nigh who he is with the rest of the world.

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Tessa Thompson

Not all heroes wear capes—but Tessa Thompson certainly does, peculiarly for the LGBTQ+ community. She won hearts with her role as Valkyrie in "Thor: Ragnarok." Just information technology was in "Thor: Beloved and Thunder" that Marvel gave her an explicit LGBTQ+ storyline, a kickoff for the brand, which fabricated Thompson an icon not but for women but for the LGBTQ+ community, too. Although Thompson has dated men and women, she chooses non to label herself as bisexual.

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Rebecca Black

Rebecca Black skyrocketed to notoriety back in 2011 with the launch of her song, "Friday"—which wasn't exactly met warmly. She came out on Amy Ordman and Jack Dodge'southward podcast, "Dating Straight," maxim: "I made, similar, a conscious conclusion not to come out, simply...people started asking, and I stopped responding...I'm still in the process, it feels like." Black has stated that she identifies every bit queer.

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Alia Shawkat

Alia Shawkat won fans' hearts as the sardonic, envelope-pushing Maeby on "Arrested Development." Today, she's a filmmaker in her own right, following the debut of "Duck Butter," which premiered in 2018. It follows the story of 50.A.-based twenty-somethings, Naima and Sergio, who, over the grade of 24 hours, fall in and out of honey with each other. Vulture called the film a "queer utopia," which was exactly what Shawkat and manager Miguel Arteta had envisioned. Shawkat identifies every bit bisexual.

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Annie Clark

Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, expanded her artistic resume in 2020 with her on-screen debut in "The Nowhere Inn." The film, which debuted at Sundance Motion picture Festival, is about Clark's on-stage persona, St. Vincent, equally told from the perspective of her fellow musician and ex-girlfriend, Carrie Brownstein. The "mockumentary" is all virtually satire and will resonate strongly with those who vibe well with "Portlandia," Brownstein'due south other claim to fame. Clark also held a romantic relationship with actress-model Cara Delevingne, and rumoredly, Kristen Stewart.

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Vanessa Carlton

In 2002 Vanessa Carlton sang her mode into superstardom with her hit, "A Thou Miles," which was nominated for a Grammy that year. Then, in 2010, Carlton fabricated another debut: She revealed at Nashville Pride that she is a "proud bisexual," though she revealed she'due south been part of the queer community since she was 13 years former after moving to New York. Equally she's gotten older, she confessed to the George Vocalisation, a media source for LGBTQ Georgia, that pop stardom wasn't actually the path she wanted to follow. "I don't wait at the customs as divide from my life," she told the outlet. "I was never able to differentiate it because I was just ever in information technology." Today, her songs are less almost pleasing the popular gods and are more evocative of the type of music she wants to be known for—soothing, emotional, and deeply rooted in personal experience.

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Halsey

The year 2020 was a breakout year for recording artist Halsey, but it didn't have anything to practice with her coming out. She'southward been out for years, equally evidenced by the rainbow flag that is omnipresent at her concerts. 2020 was about Halsey reclaiming the phase, in a mode of speaking. Halsey said that she has felt like she's playing a supporting role in her own life, and her album "Manic" is virtually taking back the spotlight. In March 2021, Halsey announced their personal pronouns are they/them and she/her.

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Jim Parsons

Jim Parsons may forever be known every bit the acerbic (nevertheless lovable) Sheldon Cooper, a role he mastered over 12 years to the tune of four Emmys, but as of belatedly he has become a public champion for the LGBTQ+ community. Following the end of "The Big Bang Theory," Parsons has moved into more of a producer'south role, and, most recently, worked on the docuseries "Equal," based on the history of the LGBTQ+ movements. Parsons has been married to fine art director Todd Spiewak since 2017.

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Baton Eichner

In addition to being a brazen funnyman, Baton Eichner uses his vocal volume to fight for LGBTQ+ rights. He frequently tries to rally his millions of followers to be more than politically active, according to Variety. He is besides a huge proponent of developing more relatable characters for gay people in the media. He told Diversity that while watching "Love, Simon," a love story with a gay protagonist, he realized, "Straight people get to the movies and literally see themselves all the time. It was so unusual to take a connexion to what was happening on-screen instead of being a stride or ii removed." In March 2021, Eichner announced he is writing and will star in "Bros" from Universal Pictures, the commencement adult-oriented LGBT moving-picture show to be produced by a mainstream moving picture studio.

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Ben Platt

Ben Platt is a force to exist reckoned with—and he'south not slowing down anytime soon. Platt, the Tony winner who also starred in "Pitch Perfect" and "The Politico," is lightning in a bottle. Platt came out as gay to his family at 13 and came out publicly in 2019. Dissimilar many gay actors, Platt was i of the few who has more or less always been out to the public. He told Variety, "There was never like a gung-ho of 'Permit's come out as shortly as possible' because no matter how forward-thinking we all get, it becomes an obstruction a niggling scrap in the case of auditioning, producers and casting and directors. Hopefully, we're moving a fleck beyond that."

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Sam Smith

Recording artist Sam Smith is a trailblazer for the LGBTQ+ community, having been ane of the few celebrities to identify as nonbinary. The pop star decided to adopt the pronouns "they/them," not "he/him," in 2019. The singer is known for their soulful vox and record hits similar, "Lay Me Down," "Stay with Me," "Too Skillful at Goodbyes," amid others. Smith had also been in a romantic relationship with "13 Reasons Why" actor Brandon Flynn. When they fabricated the nonbinary announcement on Instagram, Smith said, "I understand at that place will be many mistakes and mis-gendering but all I ask is you lot delight please try. I hope you can see me similar I see myself now. Cheers."

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Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil is a British extra known for her part in the one-act with Ted Danson and Kristen Bell. While yous won't be seeing Jamil'southward confront on "The Good Identify" anymore, you lot can hear her vocalization on her podcast, "I Weigh," which promotes the idea that people (women in particular) should be weighed by their achievements.

Jamil likewise came out every bit queer in February 2020, which was met with a considerable amount of backlash, seeing as she had been in a five-year relationship with musician James Blake. She told The Guardian that she had not come out before, "considering I was worried that people would recall I was jumping on a trendy bandwagon. So I understand the pushback." What she disagrees with, even so, is that people seem to recall she'south lying about her identity. Her response? "What a weird lie," she said.

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Demi Lovato

When information technology comes to owning their sexuality, Demi Lovato is, in a higher place all other things, "Sorry Not Sorry." An advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, they told Andy Cohen on his "Radio Andy" SiriusXM bear witness that telling Lovato'southward parents was emotional, but that their family's reaction could not have been more supportive. In 2021, Lovato announced they use "they/them" pronouns and place as pansexual and sexually fluid.

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Ariana Grande

Ariana Grande has been a controversial figure in the LGBTQ+ customs e'er since her vocal "Monopoly" came out in 2019. For many it raised the question of whether or not the pop star herself was bisexual, while others criticized her for "queer baiting," which is when celebrities drop subtle hints at identifying somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum in order to attract that fan base. When asked about the vocal, whose lyrics say, "I like women and men," Grande replied on Twitter. "I oasis't [labeled myself] before and withal don't feel the need to now which is okay," she wrote at the time.

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Lana and Lilly Wachowski

"The Matrix" fabricated household names out of Lana and Lilly Wachowski, who are both transgender. Afterwards "The Matrix" they go along to explore gender and identity in more sci-fi projects similar "Cloud Atlas" and "Sense8." "Many of the ideas Lilly and I explored 20 years agone nigh our reality are fifty-fifty more relevant now," Lana told Variety. "I'thousand very happy to have these characters back in my life and grateful for another chance to work with my bright friends." (The sisters have since reunited to evangelize the latest Matrix moving-picture show, "The Matrix Resurrections," in December 2021.)

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