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52 celebrities who don't identify as either straight or gay
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- A growing number of celebrities have opened up about beingness attracted to more than than i gender.
- Some identify as bisexual (Halsey, Lili Reinhart) or pansexual (Janelle Monáe, Miley Cyrus).
- Other stars prefer to place as queer, while still more than forgo labels for a more than fluid approach.
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Ciara Applebaum contributed to a previous version of this commodity.
Dove Cameron says she's "super queer."
In a 2021 interview with the Gay Times, Pigeon Cameron said it felt important to speak candidly with fans almost her sexuality.
"I've hinted nearly my sexuality for years while being agape to spell information technology out for everybody," she said.
"I went on Instagram Alive and said 'Guys, I actually needed to explicate something to you. Maybe I haven't said it, but I'm super queer," she continued. "This is something I desire to represent through my music because it's who I am."
Bebe Rexha says she'due south open up to dating "whoever inspires" her.
Bebe Rexha opened up about her fluid sexuality in a 2021 interview with Gay Times, saying she's attracted to "whoever inspires me."
"What I believe about sexuality is this: it's a scale," she said, adding that she considers herself "fluid."
"Until I find 'the 1,' I can't only say what I am. I merely want to find someone I dearest and who loves me – and I don't intendance if that'south a boy or a girl," she said.
Rexha, who is currently dating filmmaker Keyan Safyari, added that she has fallen in love with women in the past.
Lili Reinhart came out as bisexual on Instagram.
"Although I've never announced it publicly before, I am a proud bisexual woman," Reinhart wrote on her Instagram story.
Forth with the annunciation, she shared a poster for an "LGBTQ+ for #BlackLivesMatter" protest in W Hollywood, California, and encouraged her fans to come up forth.
She added, "And I will exist joining this protest today. Come join."
Demi Lovato is pansexual and said they feel "too queer" to be with a cisgender man.
Lovato, who initially came out as bisexual to their parents in 2017, said they now identify as pansexual during an episode of Joe Rogan's podcast.
"I'chiliad and then fluid now, and a part of the reason why I am and so fluid is because I was, like, super closeted off," Lovato said. When Rogan asked whether they similar women or men, Lovato replied: "Yeah, anything, really."
Lovato, who identifies as non-binary, has also said they feel "too queer" to be involved with cisgender men going forward.
"This past year I was engaged to a human, and when information technology didn't work, I was like, 'This is a huge sign.' I thought I was going to spend my life with someone. At present that I wasn't going to, I felt this sense of relief that I could live my truth," Lovato said after calling off their appointment with Max Ehrich after two months.
Tyler, the Creator has songs about relationships with men and women.
Tyler, the Creator has generally declined to define his sexuality, but the rapper has written lyrics about his attraction to both men and women. Throughout his Grammy-winning anthology "Igor," for example, Tyler grapples with the end of a same-sexual activity relationship.
"I like girls," he told GQ in 2019. "I just end up f---ing their brother every time."
Frank Ocean'south song "Chanel" has been widely interpreted every bit a "bisexual anthem."
Ocean famously shared an open letter about his sexuality mere days earlier his debut album, 2012's "Channel Orangish," was fix to drop.
"4 summers ago, I met somebody. I was xix years old. He was too," he wrote on Tumblr. "By the fourth dimension I realized I was in love, it was malignant. Information technology was hopeless. In that location was no escaping, no negotiating with the feeling. No choice. It was my first beloved. It changed my life."
Many songs on the album — besides as its follow-upwardly, 2016'southward "Blonde" — run across Body of water using male person pronouns to address his lovers. Still, he has never used a label to publicly define his sexuality, and many more than of his lyrics reference an attraction to women.
Sea's 2017 unmarried "Chanel" is widely interpreted as an allegory for bisexuality: "My guy pretty like a girl / And he got fight stories to tell / I see both sides like Chanel / C on both sides like Chanel," he sings in the hook.
Miley Cyrus identifies equally pansexual.
"I'k very open nigh information technology — I'thousand pansexual," Cyrus told Elle magazine in 2015.
More than recently, Cyrus has spoken openly about her fluid approach to gender and sexuality.
"A big function of my pride and my identity is being a queer person," she told Vanity Fair in February. "What I preach is: People fall in love with people, not gender, non looks, not whatever. What I'm in dearest with exists on virtually a spiritual level. It has nothing to practice with sexuality."
"Relationships and partnerships in a new generation — I don't call back they accept then much to practice with sexuality or gender," she continued. "Sex is actually a small part, and gender is a very pocket-sized, almost irrelevant function of relationships."
Tayla Parx is bisexual.
Parx is currently in a relationship with a adult female, simply told Insider that she prefers to write songs without gender-specific pronouns.
"I've always been a fan of keeping things gender neutral, honestly," she said," because of the fact that I'm bi, so sometimes my song is virtually a boy, sometimes it's about a daughter."
"I really like keeping it inclusive," Parx connected. "I really love when somebody can come up to me and say, 'I went through this with my partner,' whoever that partner is — whether information technology'due south a him or her, or whatever their pronoun is."
Victoria Monét came out as bisexual in 2018.
Shortly after the release of Ariana Grande's hitting single "Give thanks U, Next," which Monét cowrote, she clarified her sexuality on Twitter.
"I desire everyone to know that I'yard single (since people wanna pretend I'chiliad not) and make imaginary rules for me," she wrote. "I secretly and respectfully went through a difficult interruption up this summer only enough is enough."
"I too like girls. Thank U, Next. Bye," Monét added,
The "Jaguar" singer later described her coming out experience as "a buttercup version considering I was really lucky."
"It should feel more warm for everybody," she told Billboard. "I think we should brand people more comfortable."
Barbie Ferreira identifies every bit queer.
Ferreira, who is currently dating musician Elle Puckett, told Out mag in 2019 that she identifies as queer.
"In my private life, it's been going on for a long time. I evidently don't actually identify every bit a directly woman always in my life, only I feel like now I'one thousand really in my queerness," she said. "I'm in LA living my 'L Word' life. Isn't it amazing?"
Ferreira also told the New York Times that she hopes her character on HBO's "Euphoria," Kat, can explore her own queerness in season two.
Jameela Jamil came out every bit queer on Twitter.
Jamil clarified her sexuality after receiving backlash for her role on HBO Max's upcoming voguing competition series, "Legendary."
The actor and trunk-positivity abet shared a argument, captured in screenshots of notes she had typed out on her telephone. The tweet has since been deleted.
"Twitter is brutal," Jamil wrote. "This is why I never officially came out as queer. I added a rainbow to my name when I felt fix a few years ago, as it'south not easy within the south Asian community to be accepted, and I e'er answered honestly if ever directly-upwards asked about it on Twitter."
"But I kept it low considering I was scared of the pain of being accused of performative bandwagon jumping, over something that caused me a lot of confusion, fright, and turmoil when I was a kid," the statement read.
Tove Lo says her sexuality is fluid.
Tove Lo has sung virtually ill-fated relationships with men, like her famous smash hit "Habits (Stay Loftier)," and with women, similar her 2019 Alma collaboration "Bad equally the Boys."
"For me, sexuality is a fluid thing and it's hard to be just the ane way," she told NME in 2019. "But perhaps that's just because I similar both [genders]."
Brendon Urie says being married to a adult female doesn't negate his pansexuality.
The Panic! at the Disco frontman opened upward about his sexuality in a 2018 interview with Newspaper magazine.
"I'm married to a woman and I'm very much in love with her only I'm not opposed to a man because to me, I like a person," he said.
"Yeah, I guess you could qualify me as pansexual because I really don't care. If a person is not bad, then a person is corking. I just like good people, if your heart's in the correct place. I'yard definitely attracted to men. It's just people that I am attracted to."
Megan Fox publicly came out equally bisexual in 2009.
The "Jennifer's Torso" actress first opened upwards about her sexuality in 2008, when she revealed that she'd had a beat on a adult female.
"I simply think that all humans are born with the power to be attracted to both sexes," she told GQ. "I mean, I could meet myself in a relationship with a girl."
The following year, Fox elaborated in a comprehend story for Esquire.
"I think people are born bisexual and they brand subconscious choices based on the pressures of order," she said. "I have no question in my mind about being bisexual."
Singer-songwriter mxmtoon says her bisexuality informs her music.
The "Prom Dress" singer told Insider that many of her love songs are gender-neutral by design.
"In that location's not plenty songs in the world where people tin mind to information technology, and information technology doesn't accept any sort of gender to it, and information technology doesn't say similar, 'Boy-oy-oy,'" she said.
"So I think that information technology's prissy for me to exist able to think about that, considering heck, who knows what could happen in the futurity? Maybe I'll like someone else. I just think songs should exist for anyone."
YUNGBLUD says he has a "very fluid" approach to sexuality.
YUNGBLUD, real name Dominic Harrison, appeared on the comprehend of Attitude magazine's September 2019 issue.
"I am more direct," he said in the cover story. "[Just if] I walked down the street and met a f---ing bloke tomorrow, or a trans person, you never know. Information technology's about connexion. I'thou very fluid most it."
"If I vicious in love with a trans person, it's just the way information technology is. It's on a deeper level. It doesn't matter what you've got. Information technology's not about having a dick or a pussy."
Amandla Stenberg identifies every bit gender not-binary and pansexual.
"Gender and sexuality are then fluid. Information technology's OK to modify your listen a meg times and figure out what works for you lot. It's OK to take your time," Stenberg told Seventeen mag in 2018. "I beloved that nosotros accept this umbrella term of 'queer,' and and then many things tin exist underneath information technology, but I realized that part of my journeying was hiding underneath that umbrella, because I was scared — on a personal and a public level — to face up what I was."
"Information technology was easier for me to say 'I'one thousand bi' or "I'm pan' as I was figuring information technology out," they connected. "Merely I came to a identify where I felt actually proud of my sexuality, and I decided I wanted to share that pride."
Julianne Hough says she told her husband she's "not straight."
In an interview with Women'due south Health Mag, Hough said she told her husband that she wasn't straight, which many fans interpreted every bit her speaking out confronting bisexual-erasure.
"I [told him], 'Y'all know I'm non straight, correct?'" Hough said to Women'south Health. "And he was like, 'I'one thousand deplorable, what?' I was like, 'I'm non. But I cull to be with you.'"
Actress Bella Thorne originally identified as bisexual, but recently realized she'south pansexual.
Bella Thorne simply tweeted "yes" to a fan asking whether or not she'southward bisexual in 2016.
While promoting her new book in 2019, Thorne said she's "actually a pansexual" during an interview on "Good Morning time America."
"I didn't know that," Thorne said. "And somebody explained to me really thoroughly what that is: Yous like beings. Y'all similar what you like. Doesn't have to be a girl, or a guy — a he, a she, a they, a this, or that. Information technology's literally, you similar personality."
Willow Smith spoke on mom Jada Pinkett Smith'southward "Crimson Table Talk" prove near being attracted to both men and women.
When asked most potentially being part of a "throuple" (a relationship between iii people), Smith said she could meet herself being with a man and woman at the same fourth dimension. The "Female Energy" vocaliser didn't label her sexual identity, though.
"I love men and women equally and so I would definitely want one man, one woman," Willow Smith said. "I feel like I could be polyfidelitous with those 2 people."
You can watch the full "Cherry Tabular array Talk" episode here.
In 2018, vocalist Daya came out as bisexual with a lengthy mail service on Instagram, before long after National Coming Out 24-hour interval.
"Follow your gut and don't feel like you owe whatsoever sort of caption to anyone," Daya wrote. "Your sexuality is yours but so build with it at a pace that works for you. I'chiliad proud to be a bisexual member of the LGBTQ customs with a girl [Clyde Monroe] I dearest who makes me feel more similar me every twenty-four hour period."
Daya added that she has received plenty of back up and "though it wasn't always like shooting fish in a barrel I also recognize how privileged I am to take had so much of it, so I especially wanna be there for those of u who aren't surrounded by the most accepting family/friends/communities."
Lucas Hedges says he'due south "not totally straight, but likewise not gay and non necessarily bisexual."
Hedge'due south stars every bit the titular graphic symbol in 2018's "Boy Erased," whose parents send him to conversion therapy after he comes out as gay.
"I owe information technology to this part to speak every bit honestly as possible," Hedges told Vulture in an interview about the picture. "In the early stages of my life, some of the people I was nearly infatuated with were my closest male friends. That was the example through high schoolhouse, and I think I was ever aware that while for the most part I was attracted to women, I existed on a spectrum."
Vocaliser and songwriter Jason Mraz thinks "2-spirit" is the all-time identifier for his sexuality.
After penning a verse form for Billboard Magazine during 2018's Pride Calendar month, Mraz got some attention for the line: "I am bi your side."
"Honestly, I didn't realize it was going to be so telling," Mraz told Billboard in a contempo interview. "Simply I've had experiences with men, even while I was dating the woman who became my wife. It was like, 'Wow, does that mean I am gay?' And my wife laid it out for me. She calls it 'two spirit,' which is what the Native Americans call someone who can love both man and woman. I really like that."
Tessa Thompson opened up about her fluid sexuality in a 2018 interview.
"Westworld" and "Avengers: Endgame" star Tessa Thompson told Net-a-Porter that she's attracted to both men and women.
"I can have things for granted because of my family – it's so free and you can be anything that you want to be," Thompson said. "I'm attracted to men and as well to women. If I bring a woman home, [or] a man, we don't even have to take the discussion."
Thompson's "Westworld" co-star Evan Rachel Wood came out equally bisexual in 2012, though said more recently she prefers the term "queer."
Wood came out equally bisexual in a tweet in 2012 saying, "I myself am bisexual and have e'er 'joked' about Miley giving me gay vibes. Not a bad thing! But an ascertainment."
She is an advocate for bisexual sensation, and told a fan on Twitter once that labels are tricky.
"I prefer 'queer,'" Wood said in 2013. "Bisexual works too except I don't exclude transgender people. This is why labels are catchy."
Janelle Monáe get-go identified as bisexual, but has since come out as pansexual.
"Being a queer black adult female in America, someone who has been in relationships with both men and women — I consider myself to be a gratis-ass motherf---er," Monáe said in a 2018 interview with Rolling Stone.
Every bit the commodity makes clear, Monae first identified as bisexual. "But and then later I read about pansexuality and was like, 'Oh, these are things that I place with as well,'" Monae said. "I'grand open to learning more virtually who I am."
Paris Jackson prefers not to label herself, and said she came out when she was 14.
Jackson identifies as part of the LGBTQ community and has mentioned burdensome on girls in magazine interviews, merely she prefers not to exist chosen bisexual.
"I'm not bisexual," Jackson wrote on an Instagram mail service. "I just love people for people. I don't label myself so please don't characterization me. Thank you!"
Kristen Stewart has dated both men and women.
"You lot're not confused if yous're bisexual," she told The Guardian in 2017. "It'southward non confusing at all. For me, it's quite the reverse."
Stewart too spoke to the complexity that comes with having her sexuality in the spotlight.
"I hateful, it's difficult to talk about," Steward said. "I don't want to seem presumptuous, because anybody has their own experience. The whole issue of sexuality is so grayness. I'thou just trying to acknowledge that fluidity, that gray, which has ever existed. But maybe only at present are nosotros immune to start talking about it."
In 2015, Michelle Rodriguez said she's sexually attracted to both men and women.
"I've gone both ways. I exercise as I delight," the "Fast and Furious" and "Avatar" star said to Entertainment Weekly. "I am also f------ curious to sit here and non endeavor when I tin. Men are intriguing. So are chicks."
When asked subsequently about the decision to open up up nearly her love life, Rodriquez told Latina Magazine: "I'chiliad getting older. Somewhen it's going to wrinkle upwardly and I'm not going to be able to use it. I wanted to be honest well-nigh who I am and meet what happens."
Ezra Miller came out as queer in 2012.
"The style I would choose to place myself wouldn't be gay," Miller said to The Daily Beast in 2012. "I've been attracted mostly to 'shes,' merely I've been with many people and I'g open to love wherever it can be found."
Halsey identifies as bisexual and has opened up about her sexuality numerous times.
"I'one thousand a immature, bisexual adult female, and I've spent a large part of my life trying to validate myself — to my friends, to my family, to myself — trying to bear witness that who I love and how I experience is not a phase; information technology's not role of some defoliation that'southward going to change or could be manipulated," the vocalizer said while accepting the GLAAD laurels for Outstanding Musician in 2018.
Musician and actor Keiynan Lonsdale prefers not to label himself, but says he'southward "not directly."
"I like to change my pilus, I like to take risks with how I clothes, I like girls, and I like guys (yes), I similar growing, I like learning, I like who I am and I really like who I'thou condign," the "Love, Simon" star wrote in an Instagram postal service last year.
"I said, I'g not straight," Lonsdale told EW when asked about his coming out story. with his friends. "I don't really characterization myself equally annihilation. I accept been in love with guys and I accept been in dearest with girls. That's me."
Drew Barrymore came out in 2003, and keeps her romantic life private.
Over a decade ago, Drew Barrymore came out in an interview in Contact Magazine, saying, "Do I similar women sexually? Yeah, I exercise. Totally. I have e'er considered myself bisexual."
"I love a woman's torso. I think a woman and a woman together are cute, just as a human being and a woman together are beautiful."
Amber Heard came out as bisexual years ago, merely has since stated she prefers not to be labeled.
"I don't identify as anything," Heard told Allure in 2017 when asked if she identifies as bisexual. "I'm a person. I like who I similar. I happened to be dating a woman, and people started taking pictures of us walking to our motorcar later dinner. I [was] holding her hand, and I realized that I accept two options: I can let become of her hand and, when asked about information technology, I can say that my private life is my private life. Or I could not let go and own information technology."
It was when Heard decided to "own it" dorsum in 2010 that the bisexual label first came into play, though she'south since decided confronting using the term.
"It's limiting, that LGBTQ matter," Heard told Allure. "Information technology served a function as an umbrella for marginalized people to whom rights were being denied, only information technology loses its efficacy considering of the nuanced nature of humanity [...] I don't care how many letters y'all add together. At some indicate, it's going to spell 'Nosotros ARE HUMAN.'"
Alia Shawkat identifies as bisexual.
"I was a tomboy growing upwardly, and I call back my mom request me when I was 10, 'Are you attracted to boys or girls?' I said 'I don't know,'" Alia Shawkat told Out Magazine. "At present I consider myself bisexual, and I call back balancing my male and female energies has been a big role of me growing as an actor."
Daniel Newman came out as bisexual in 2017.
In 2017, "The Walking Expressionless" star Daniel Newman came out equally bisexual to his fans on social media and promoted the hashtag #OutandProud with supportive letters well-nigh visibility within the LGBTQ customs.
Pop star Lauren Jauregui came out in a 2016 political op-ed.
Jauregui came out as bisexual in a 2016 Billboard op-ed piece, writing, "I am a bisexual Cuban-American woman and I am and then proud of it."
The post-obit year, the former Fifth Harmony fellow member collaborated with Halsey on her song "Strangers," a popular duet about an ill-fated same-sexual activity romance. The lyrics initially had both artists singing near an unnamed "he."
"Then I got a text from her: 'Hey, babe, you can totally close this downwards, but I was thinking nosotros could switch the pronouns,'' Jauregui told Out Magazine. "I was like, 'B----, I was thinking the aforementioned thing!'"
Record mogul Clive Davis came out as bisexual in his 2013 memoir.
American record producer Clive Davis came out as bisexual in his memoir, "The Soundtrack Of My Life."
"The adage is that you're either directly or gay or lying, just that's not my experience," he wrote. "To telephone call me annihilation other than bisexual would exist inaccurate."
Kesha says gender doesn't play a office in who she's attracted to.
Kesha says she prefers not to apply labels, just told Seventeen Magazine, "I don't love just men. I beloved people. It's not about a gender. It's simply near the spirit that exudes from that other person you're with."
Blackness Eyed Peas frontwoman Fergie came out every bit bisexual in 2009.
When The Advocate asked the Blackness Eyed Peas front adult female almost her bisexual past and why it wasn't a "trendy" thing for her, she said, "The funny matter is that I was very open and honest about that from the very beginning, and everyone was interim like information technology was some new trend. Go back four or 5 years, people, and you'll see the aforementioned answer."
Actor Alan Cumming is so tired of discussing his bisexuality in interviews that he created a FAQ answer on his website.
In 2015, Cumming told The Abet, "My sexuality has never been black and white; it's ever been grey. I'm with a human, simply I oasis't closed myself off to the fact that I'k withal sexually attracted to women."
Now he's added a section about his sexuality to the FAQ on his website.
"I'thou not here to change people'southward minds about whether they believe in bisexuality," it reads. "All I'm saying is that I call back my sexuality and most people'due south sexuality is gray. I am married to a man. I accept a healthy sexual appetite and a salubrious imagination. I too have an allure to women. I've never lost it, actually."
"Parks and Recreation" star Aubrey Plaza said she falls in beloved with both girls and guys.
Plaza spoke about her fluid sexuality during a 2016 interview with The Advocate.
"I know I take an androgynous thing going on, and there's something masculine virtually my energy," Plaza said, when asked if women ever flirt with her.
"Girls are into me — that's no surreptitious. Hey, I'm into them too. I fall in love with girls and guys. I can't help information technology."
Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong spoke about being bisexual in a 1995 interview.
"I call up I've always been bisexual," Armstrong said in a 1995 interview with The Advocate.
"I mean, information technology's something that I've always been interested in. I think people are built-in bisexual, and it'due south just that our parents and social club kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I tin can't.' They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that information technology'southward bad, when it'southward bang-up at all. Information technology'south a very beautiful thing."
"The Voice" and "American Idol" alum Frenchie Davis has dated both men and women.
"I wasn't out before the relationship, but I wasn't in," Davis said in an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "I dated men and women, though lesbians weren't feeling the bisexual thing. Now I'm in love with a woman I think I tin can be with forever."
"Grey'southward Anatomy" star Sara Ramirez identifies every bit queer and bisexual.
The "Gray'due south Beefcake" star came out during a speech at True Colors Fund's xl to None Summit.
"So many of our youth experiencing homelessness are youth whose lives touch on many intersections — whether they be gender identity, gender expression, race, class, sexual orientation, religion, citizenship condition," she said.
"Because of the intersections that exist in my own life: woman, multi-racial woman, woman of color, queer, bisexual, Mexican-Irish American, immigrant, and raised by families heavily rooted in Catholicism on both my Mexican and Irish sides, I am deeply invested in projects that permit our youth's voices to be heard."
Cara Delevingne has spoken openly almost being bisexual.
Afterward talking openly about being with men and women, the "Suicide Squad" actress and model has expressed frustration well-nigh the way some people misidentify her as gay.
"A lot of the friends I accept who are straight take such an old way of thinking," Delevingne said in an interview for Glamour. "It's 'So you lot're just gay, correct?' [They] don't understand information technology. [If] I'1000 like, 'Oh, I really like this guy,' [they're like], 'Only you're gay.' I'm similar, 'No, you're then annoying!'"
Sia identifies every bit queer, and says she's dated both men and women.
Sia came out as queer in Baronial 2013, tweeting, "I'one thousand queer. I don't actually identify equally a lesbian because I've dated predominantly men. But I've certainly dated women."
"True Claret" star Anna Paquin came out in a recorded PSA in 2010.
Paquin came out as bisexual in a PSA for the 2010 Requite a Damn Campaign aimed at promoting gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender equality by saying, "I'k bisexual, and I give a damn."
She'southward been married to her co-star Stephen Moyer for eight years, and several times has had to make it clear that being married to a human being doesn't make her whatsoever less bisexual.
"Proud to exist a happily married bisexual mother," Pacquin tweeted in 2014. "Marriage is nigh love not gender."
"Brooklyn Nine-Nine" star Stephanie Beatriz wrote about her bisexuality in an essay for GQ.
I'm bi, and I'thousand getting married this fall," Beatriz wrote in 2018. "I'm choosing to go married considering this particular person brings out the best in me. This person happens to exist a man. I'g still bi."
She connected: "I've chosen to use that platform to speak openly about my bi-ness, because of other people who may feel invisible and unsure of whether or not to come out as bisexual."
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