RELATED: The most powerful LGBTQIA+ moviesĪ year after Demi Lovato came out as nonbinary in May 2021 and started using they/them pronouns ('I feel that this best represents the fluidity I feel in my gender expression and allows me to feel most authentic and true to the person I both know I am, and am still discovering' Demi said at the time), the pop star updated pronouns again, in her Instagram bio, in May 2022, adding she/her alongside they/them. They're not being taught to love themselves because of who they are.' 'There are a lot of kids, especially young Black boys that need to see representation. 'It wasn't like that in the '90s, but I'm glad I get to see it,' he said of stars like Lil Nas X and Frank Ocean coming out publicly early in their careers. 'You just couldn't be back then' in the R&B scene.

I didn't try to act a certain way or anything,' he said. On the podcast, Tevin - who earlier in 2022 tweeted, 'Tevin is…' followed by a rainbow flag emoji, then took it down - insisted that earlier in his career, 'I didn't hide anything about me. That was a great time in my life,' he said. 'Being around people who were like me, LGBTQ+ people that were living normal lives and had partners. I didn't know who I was,' the 'Can We Talk' singer explained, adding that he grew a lot when he stepped away from the music industry and spent six years performing in the Broadway musical 'Hairspray' beginning in 2004.

The former child star said he came out to his family and friends when he was 19 or 20 'then I went on the road of discovering myself. Keep reading for more stars who've identified as members of the LGBTQIA+ community…Īfter tweeting then deleting a big hint about his sexuality in March 2022, '90s R&B star Tevin Campbell opened up about being a gay man in an August 2022 interview with the 'PEOPLE Every Day' podcast. A fuller spectrum of understanding that my story is demanding of me.' Finding words that feel more right to explore in my telling. 'That my sexual identity has more to teach and to tell me. Using words to guide me not define me,' the 'Adopting Audrey' star explained on Instagram. So I've been learning a new way to tell it.

But this was never the whole of the story that was meant for me. I visualized his desires and placed them on to me. 'I guess It felt like I was a heterosexual man in a woman's body. is sharing all the ways celebrities have told the world about their sexual or gender identities, beginning with this actress… Jena Malone - the former child star who found fame in films like 'Contact' and 'Stepmom' and went on to work in mainstream franchises like 'The Hunger Games' while continuing to make cool indie movies - came out as pansexual on Aug.

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