Stars You Didnt Know Were Bisexual
Some stars come up out as LGBT+ to big fanfare, but others may have been out for years or may have come out quietly.
PinkNews brings you lot a list of 43 iconic stars who, even if they personally avoid labels, are even so LGBT role models.
ane. Drew Barrymore
The Santa Clarita Nutrition star came out as bisexual in 2003. She has been married three times, to Jeremy Thomas, Tom Green and Will Kopelman.
She told Contact Music: "Do I like women sexually? Aye, I do. Totally. I take always considered myself bisexual."
In February 2017 she said she'd rather exist with Kate Middleton than Prince William.
In an interview with ITV'due south Loose Women, the star weighed in on which fellow member of the Royal Family she preferred.
But rather than opting for either of the younger Princes, the star who has opened up in the past nearly her relationships with women, said she'd pick Kate Middleton.
She said: "I'd love to exist with Kate Middleton the near – at the risk of sounding controversial. Princesses over Princes!"
2. Kate McKinnon
The Ghostbusters star was the commencement out lesbian fellow member of the Sat Night Live cast. She revealed that she realised she was a lesbian later watching Gillian Anderson as Scully on the X-Files.
"I figured it out by watching The Ten-Files and by noticing my physiological reaction to information technology," she said.
"I thought at first my physiological reaction was a product of David Duchovny's face but no, information technology was Gillian Anderson-who even so is the queen of my heart. So I knew then."
The Emmy-winning star of SNL has become known for her impersonations of Kellyanne Conway and Jeff Sessions.
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3. Kristen Stewart
The Twilight star came out back in 2015. She later responded on SNL to President Trump's "obsession" with her saying "I'm so gay, dude".
Earlier she came out, the extra had an on-once more off-again romance with Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson – simply they broke up in 2012 amid tabloid rumours of infidelity.
The now-President Donald Trump grew obsessed with Stewart at the time, sending a notorious string of tweets most her spanning several months comparing her to a dog.
While hosting President Trump's favourite TV show Sabbatum Dark Live, Stewart – who came out as gay in 2015 – directly addressed the show'due south most loyal viewer.
She said: "I'm a little nervous to exist hosting because I know the president is probably watching and I don't retrieve he likes me that much. Here's how I know.
"A few years ago I was dating this guy chosen Robert, and nosotros broke up and and so we got back together, and for some reason it fabricated Donald Trump go insane."
4. Amandla Stenberg
Hunger Games star Amandla came out every bit bisexual via a series of Snaps dorsum in 2016.
On the subject of minorities being "silenced" she said: "As someone who identifies every bit a black bisexual adult female I've been through it, and it hurts and it's awkward and information technology's uncomfortable."
Stenberg made her movie debut in 2011 in the moving-picture show Colombiana before landing the role of Roo in the mega hit Hunger Games series staring alongside Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth.
The actor, who played the character of Roo in the serial, revealed her sexuality almost equally an after-thought whilst she took over TeenVogue's Snapchat contour.
Stenberg subsequently posted the video on her Tumblr page, where she talks about the lack of media representation of women of colour.
On the subject of minorities being "silenced" she said: "As someone who identifies every bit a black bisexual woman I've been through information technology, and it hurts and it's awkward and information technology'southward uncomfortable."
5. Kesha
Kesha came out as bisexual in 2013, and has since officiated at two same-sex weddings.
Kesha returned to the spotlight in July 2017, and she brought a rainbow with her.
The superstar dropped her new song, Praying, almost iv years afterwards her last single.
The song forms part of her new album, Rainbow, which was released on August 11.
During her emotional video for the song, the Tik Tok star addresses her producer Dr Luke, who she alleged raped her, and talks virtually dealing with depression during the court battle.
In a Beyoncé-esque intro, she tackles her depression head-on, request: "Am I dead? Or is this one of those dreams? Those horrible dreams, that seem like they terminal forever?
"If I am alive, why? Why? If in that location is a god or whatever, something, somewhere, why have I been abandoned by anybody and everything I've ever known? I've ever loved? Stranded.
"What is the lesson? What is the point? God, give me a sign or I have to surrender. I can't do this anymore.
"Please just let me dice. Being alive hurts too much."
6. Gillian Anderson
Equally well equally helping Kate McKinnon to realise her own sexual orientation, Gillian Anderson has as well had relationships with women.
Back in 2014, years later revealing she had relationships with women, she said she owed it to a tardily female partner not to keep their relationship a underground.
Anderson was unrecognisable in a still from Television set series American Gods, in which she's playing David Bowie.
Anderson said of revealing the human relationship: "She had died of a encephalon tumour a year earlier and I had never actually spoken about her.
"She was a beautiful person who was very meaningful in my life and I wanted to honor her instead of hiding my experience.
"There was a point years afterward we divide when she phoned to tell me to say she had been offered a large amount of money to sell a photograph of usa together and had called non to do it."
seven. Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho has included her bisexuality equally a theme in her shows.
The comedian says she has had "a lot of feel in the expanse of polyamory and alternative sexuality in general".
In the 2002 show Notorious C.H.O., she discussed her sexual orientation.
The comic, actress and LGBT activist has opened up virtually the homophobic abuse she receives through social media.
In a Facebook postal service, the bisexual actress described some of the troubling encounters she has been involved in – both on and offline.
"I've experienced numerous breaches of security, a couple of very troubling face to face up interactions and so much online trolling I tin't help but believe it'south all somehow connected," she wrote.
8. Aubrey Plaza
Parks and Recreation star Aubrey Plaza came out as bisexual back in 2016.
The thespian who played April Ludgate in the hitting TV bear witness, has said that she "falls in love with girls and and guys".
Her co-star Natalie Morales came out as queer in July 2017.
In an interview with The Abet, the flick and Television star said: "I know I take an androgynous thing going on, and there's something masculine virtually my energy. Girls are into me — that's no cloak-and-dagger. Hey, I'k into them too. I fall in dear with girls and guys. I can't help it."
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The actress, who has also starred in films such as 'Life later Beth', 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World' and 'Dirty Granddad', added that she feels her tastes are like that of an quondam gay human's and that she "grew up obsessed with Judy Garland".
9. Cara Delevingne
The Paper Towns role player and model has had loftier-profile relationships with women.
In July 2017 she said she doesn't like being "pigeonholed" by people who insist on labelling her gay.
The Suicide Squad star likewise opened upward nearly her boxing with depression, with a view to opening up a dialogue on the subject.
Delevingne also revealed her experience of working with disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.
The model and performer says she had a "very odd and uncomfortable phone call" with the movie mogul when she started out as an actress.
Delevingne also claims he told her she would have no time to come in Hollywood if she is open up about her sexuality and relationships with other women.
10. Daniel Newman
The Walking Dead star Daniel Newman who plays Daniel in the hit series came out as gay in an emotional reveal in early 2017.
In a touching YouTube video, he said a take a chance meeting with a girl at a homeless youth centre he was volunteering at had changed his mind about hiding his sexuality.
The actor, who has also starred in Vampire Diaries, Homeland and Sexual practice and the Metropolis, said the girl had thanked him profusely for helping the LGBT community.
After he had questioned why she was thanking him, she said: "Because you're straight." That was the moment he said he knew he had to come out.
"I'm non direct," the role player, who plays Daniel in the show, had responded, and the girl's reply floored him.
"Why take you never said that publicly before? You could help alter our lives."
"It hit me similar a gut-punch," Newman said. "It felt like someone knocked the wind out from me.
"And I realised how important it is in this twenty-four hours and age to be visible – to let people who know you are."
11. Jess Glynne
The singer came out in 2015, saying she wanted to be honest with her fans. She later on said she didn't want to put a label on her sexuality and helped a gay couple go engaged.
Glynne had previously spoken of how her debut anthology was inspired by breaking upwards with an ex-girlfriend.
Withal, when the star recently opened upwards nearly her sexuality, she claimed she doesn't want her honesty to mean she is branded as straight, lesbian or bisexual – instead, she wants to avoid labels altogether.
Glynne – who says she is proud of her sexuality – said: "I've only e'er been with one girl in my life and that's the girl from my anthology.
"It was hard at the beginning of the relationship, because until then I had only ever gone out with guys. But I am who I am," she told The Daily Star Sunday.
"I'm never going to put a characterization on my sexuality and people should never feel uncomfortable well-nigh who they beloved," she added.
She afterward explained why she was and then honest with fans over her sexuality and the inspiration for her songs.
"I wanted my album to be as honest as possible. I've laid all my cards on the tabular array and gave the truth.
"There was never a question of hiding the story behind it.
"I pray one solar day we go to a point where it'southward no longer a thing."
12. Holland Taylor
The 74-year-one-time actor spoke near her sexuality back in 2015, saying she never needed to come out because she lives out.
She and American Horror Story star Sarah Paulson have since confirmed that they are in a long-term relationship together.
On coming out, she said: "No, I haven't come out because I am out. I live out."
Taylor described her new relationship as "the most wonderful, extraordinary matter that could have ever maybe happened in my life."
The 72 twelvemonth-onetime actress was likewise asked why it had taken her such a long fourth dimension to come out as gay.
"I haven't come out because I am out," she replied. "I alive out."
"I feel at this point in the conversation information technology feels kind of awkward. Now I feel very very shy of it.
"I've been really wrestling with this lately because well-nigh of my relationships have been with women and I don't like talking about them because I don't like talking about the politics of information technology all.
"I remember nosotros're ridiculous in this land (the US) near it. Ridiculous."
13. Michael Sam
Former NFL star Michael Sam came out as gay and was the first out gay player to be drafted.
Later on coming out in 2014 and has since had cursory spells with the NFL's St Louis Rams, the Dallas Cowboys, and Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes.
He after said coming out ruined his NFL career, and called out racism in the gay community.
"I remember if I never would have came out, never would have said those words out to the public, I would withal exist currently in the NFL," he said in an interview.
"But considering of me saying those words, I think it could have played a huge part in my current situation."
Critics have been quick to discredit the star'southward claims – with some insisting that the but reason he was ever drafted into the league was considering of his sexuality.
fourteen. Fergie
Back in 2009, the Black Eyed Peas star confirmed she is bisexual. And she said she does love a "well-endowed homo".
The star, who married Josh Duchamel, told the Sun: "Put it this way, I've experimented definitely, just I have never had a steady girlfriend."
She added: "Y'all'll similar our adjacent video, for 'I Got a Feeling', considering I have a piddling girl-on-daughter tease department of the video.
"I met the girls correct earlier we did the scene.
"They were beautiful. They were hot.
"One of them was the managing director's girlfriend — and then he was happy!"
xv. Anna Paquin
The True Blood star has been out as bisexual since 2010. In 2012 she said bisexuality is "but part of who I am".
Later on coming out she said she was proud to exist a happily married bisexual mother, and said that her bisexuality really hadn't been a secret.
The, True Blood, star came out in 2010, and has spoken frequently about her bisexuality, merely said that some people have a trouble with the fact that she identifies as bisexual:
"Some people notice information technology odd that y'all tin identify with a sexual orientation that is non directly and nonetheless be married to someone of the contrary sex. They're like, 'Plain it's not real if you're married to a dude'".
"But that'due south not my trouble, I'g like, okay, if that's how yous experience, there's nil I can practice about it. I'm just living my life."
"I am a happily married woman and I married a man," she said, "I don't call back that negates that aspect of my life, but obviously I wouldn't be with my husband if I didn't desire to be married to a man."
16. Aaron Carter
Carter came out in a touching Twitter post in which he quoted fellow artist Boy George.
Carter, who is well known for kick-starting his pop career in the 1990s, took to the social media platform to come up out to fans.
He wrote: "To starting time off, I would like to say that I dear each and EVERY ONE of my fans.
"There'due south something I'd like to say that I feel is important for myself and my identity that has been weighing on my chest for nearly half of my life.
"This doesn't bring me shame, simply a weight and burden I take held onto for a long time that I would like lifted off of me."
Carter goes on to explain that he always found males and females attractive from a young age, but didn't brainstorm to come to terms with it until he was older.
"I grew up in this entertainment industry at a very young age and when I was effectually xiii-years-old I started to find boys and girls attractive.
"There were years that went by that I idea near it, merely it wasn't until I was 17-years-former, later on a few relationships with girls, I had an experience with a male that I had an attraction to who I also worked with and grew up with," he wrote.
He finished the moving post past calculation that for him, music has always been a safe oasis and has been a tool to aid him sympathize his sexuality.
17. Ellen Page
Inception star Ellen Page came out as gay in an incredibly moving oral communication at the Human being Rights Campaign back in 2014. She said she was "tired of lying by omission".
The star has since strongly campaigned for LGBT+ rights and has said she wished she had come out sooner.
Page has spoken candidly nigh a joke in her hit film Juno.
Page sprung to distinction through the Oscar-winning 2007 film, which starred her as a meaning teenage girl.
The actress came out every bit gay in 2014 while speaking at an upshot for the Human Rights Entrada, and has since become a fierce LGBT activist.
In an interview this week, Page opened upward almost a moment in Juno that she bitterly regrets.
eighteen. Tim Melt
The Apple tree boss who took over from Steve Jobs when he passed abroad, came out as gay in 2014.
Cook was fifty-fifty considered by Hillary Clinton every bit a possible running mate for her 2016 presidential bid.
In 2017, the Apple tree CEO won The Newseum Institute's Gratuitous Speech Award for his work protecting LGBT rights.
He has slammed Trump's Muslim ban and the President'south proposed ban on transgender people serving in the armed forces.
And Melt wrote a powerful letter rejecting the President's response to a white nationalist rally in Virginia, which claimed the life of one woman.
Trump was widely condemned for equating the actions of neo Nazis and anti-fascist campaigners.
Cook has been a vocal supporter of LGBT rights since he came out in 2014, with the Human Rights Campaign honouring him for his piece of work in 2015.
19. Joel Grey
Cabaret star Joel Grey who played the Emcee in the hit film proved it'south never too late to come up out, coming out equally gay anile 82 back in 2015.
The Cabaret star played the Emcee in both the original stage and film versions of the Kander and Ebb musical – and later played a gay human being in the stage version of AIDS drama The Normal Heart.
In an interview with People magazine, he said: "I don't like labels, just if y'all take to put a characterization on information technology, I'm a gay man.
"All the people close to me accept known for years who I am. [Notwithstanding] it took time to embrace that other part of who I e'er was."
He likewise opened up almost his childhood, and being surrounded by homophobia in the 1930s and 40s.
He said: "[I would hear] the grownups talk in the side by side room, my mother included, talking derisively about 'fairies' and men existence dragged off to jail and even worse for being who they were.
"[About that fourth dimension] I came to realize, forth with existence attracted to girls, I had like feelings for boys."
twenty. Kristian Nairn
Nairn, who plays Hodor in Game of Thrones came out as gay back in 2014.
He said: "Well, in all honesty, when you talk near 'the gay community,' you are talking almost my community, haha."
Nairn later said he is happy to fight gay stereotypes: "It's been everywhere, People, CNN, all the way down to the little local paper in Belfast. I don't want to be a figurehead or anything, but if I tin can assistance 1 person, I'll be happy."
"I've never hidden my sexuality from anyone, my whole life in fact, and I've been waiting for someone to ask almost it in an interview, cos information technology'southward non something you just blurt out. I've tried to lead the questions a few times, to no avail!
"Information technology's a very small function of who I am on the whole, but none the less, in this twenty-four hour period and age, it's important to stand and be counted."
Hodor is the start major graphic symbol played by Nairn. The merely word he ever speaks in the series is his name.
21. Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie has spoken about her bisexuality for a long time.
Speaking to Jane magazine, the readers of which said she was the most bonny star, she said: "They're right to think that about me, because I'k the person most likely to sleep with my female fans. I genuinely love other women. And I call back they know that."
Back in 2014, Jolie, then married to Brad Pitt appear her back up for their ten-yr-old to self-identify as male.
The former couple were criticised in 2012 subsequently they gave up waiting for marriage equality to marry, despite previously promising they would agree off.
John Jolie Pitt attracted widespread attention when they appeared on the red carpet for Angelina's picture show 'Unbroken', wearing a tuxedo and with cropped hair.
The family have for several years shown full support for John'south correct to explore their self-identification.
Back in 2010, Jolie said: "She wants to be a male child. So we had to cutting her pilus. She likes to wear boys' everything. She thinks she'due south i of the brothers."
22. Wentworth Miller
Prison house Interruption star Wentworth Miller came out every bit gay back in 2013 when he declined to attend a Russian motion-picture show festival.
He has since used his prominence to speak out most his mental wellness problems and self-impairment stemming from troubles with his sexuality.
Miller hitting back at a follower who said he is not a "existent man" back in 2016, and later starred in a powerful PSA virtually mental wellness issues.
Miller dorsum in March hit out at a meme mocking him for his weight gain subsequently leaving his most iconic role.
The role player was a huge name while starring in Prison house Suspension, only was forced to deny gossip about his sexuality at the time.
He spent several years away from the spotlight after Prison Intermission ended in 2009 struggling with low – before coming out as gay in 2013, albeit he "chose to lie" previously for the sake of his career.
23. Jason Collins
Jason Collins became the get-go NBA star to come out as gay back in 2013.
Collins afterward praised the NBA for moving its All Star game out of North Carolina over an anti-LGBT bath law.
Collins gave a voice communication at the Democratic National Convention concluding twelvemonth, as Hillary Clinton prepared to take the party's Presidential nomination.
In his speech, Collins reveals that the Clintons knew he was gay before he told the earth.
Collins gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2016, equally Hillary Clinton prepared to have the party's Presidential nomination.
In his oral communication, Collins reveals that the Clintons knew he was gay before he told the earth.
He said: "My dream was to play in the NBA and live my authentic life as a proud gay man at the aforementioned time.
"I was able to achieve both of those goals considering of the people who have supported me throughout my life.
"Before I came out to the world on the cover of Sports illustrated, I came out privately to the Clinton family.
"I have known their family for nearly 20 years. I knew that they would have me for who I was; and that they would aid pave a path for others to practise the aforementioned.
"I am forever grateful for their words of wisdom back so and their unconditional back up."
24. Cynthia Nixon
Sexual activity and the City actor Nixon, who played Miranda in the series, starting time came out as bisexual, and later every bit gay.
The star caused controversy shortly before her marriage, when she claimed her homosexuality was a choice.
She subsequently clarified that she didn't identify every bit bisexual and that she is gay.
Nixon this year attacked President Trump in a powerful speech she gave at the Stonewall Inn, over his attitude towards LGBT issues.
"I didn't actually identify as bisexual," she said, "only people were so insistent that I pick a ― you know, it acquired a huge controversy and anybody wanted to graft on to me this narrative ― [that] I felt that I had just just been mistaken near myself for all these years and finally the veil was lifted and I was a lesbian. And that was not truthful."
Nixon also spoke most her role in A Placidity Passion, the upcoming biopic of poet Emily Dickinson written and directed past Terence Davies.
The actress speculates that Dickinson could have been bisexual, and spoke about how hard it is to capture the truthful essence of her story and so many years on.
"I do recollect she was [bisexual.] It's so hard for the states 150 years afterwards to really get tone right," she adds.
25. Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster came out every bit gay in a speech at the 2013 Golden Globes, opening upward about her partner.
A hilarious clip of Foster dealing with a heteronormative interviewer this year resurfaced and went viral.
The twice-University Honour winner married Alexandra Hedison in 2014.
Foster was in 2016 finally been given the honour of her ain spot on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The star'south very ain star was placed on Hollywood Boulevard on 4 May.
Kristen Stewart will be responsible for presenting Foster with Hollywood's highest honor (except that Oscar).
"We have been waiting for a long time for Jodie Foster to set a date for her star and are thrilled that the time has come up," Walk of Fame producer Ana Martinez tells WENN.
"She is a great part model for women and we are proud to add together her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame."
26. Ben Whishaw
The London Spy star Ben Whishaw has been out as gay for some time. In 2016 he said he thought keeping his sexuality a undercover had a negative consequence on his career.
"I'm not damaged," Ben Whishaw told the Guardian. "Non more than anybody else."
He later said he was "baffled" that there is fifty-fifty a argue effectually gay actors and whether they should come out.
The London Spy star told the Guardian that keeping his sexual orientation a secret at the beginning of his career was damaging.
He said keeping it tranquillity "only made it worse."
"Because then people assume yous've got some actually juicy, awful affair that you're keeping from them," he went on.
Discussing the fact that his civil partnership was revealed past a journalist, Whishaw said information technology was really a relief.
27. Raven Symone
Back in 2014, the That'southward So Raven star came out, saying she was dating a adult female but that she didn't want to be "labelled gay".
She later said she was made to hibernate her sexuality by Disney while managing her image.
The 30-year-old said: "My likeness… had 15 people dictating what I should and should not look like, if I did whatsoever I want, I'chiliad not gonna sell 'cause it doesn't go with the brand. I was branded at such a immature age."
Going on, she said the pressure to maintain a sellable self-brand led her to hide her sexual orientation.
"My awareness of my sexuality was prevalent to me at 12, simply at that place was some things younger in similar the unmarried digits. I had friends that I experimented with, simply I never went far considering I knew that this can't exist talked about," she went on.
28. Wanda Sykes
Comedian and role player Wanda Sykes came out as a lesbian at a Prop eight rally back in 2008.
She afterwards said she never meant to come out only that once she did she was "treated like a unicorn".
Sykes has revealed that she never meant to come out at a Prop viii rally in 2008 but when she did, she was treated like a unicorn.
The comedian told The Meredith Show that she was called on stage past organisers every bit she had been vocal well-nigh her support for the anti Prop viii campaign. She revealed that people treated her similar a "unicorn" because, at the time, there were few out African-Americans.
She said: "Information technology merely came out. I had merely gotten married. So instead of speaking every bit a supporter, I was speaking every bit ane of the victims. It only happened. I didn't even think about information technology… We connected with the rally and by the fourth dimension I got to the hotel, I'1000 looking at the CNN roll and it says, 'Comedienne Wanda Sykes: I'thou proud to be black and gay' and whatever, I was like, 'Oh lord. What the hell just happened?' It was crazy."
Sykes married her wife Alex Sykes in 2008 just before Proffer eight, the law that banned aforementioned-sex marriage in California, was passed.
Sykes revealed she was treated like a unicorn because she was a visible representative of the black LGBT community.
29. Charlie Carver
Teen Wolf star Carver came out every bit gay in a five-page letter of the alphabet published on Instagram dorsum in 2016.
In January 2017 he reflected on coming out.
He also said he would quit interim rather than hibernate his sexuality, if he had to choose.
Carver, who played Porter Scavo in Desperate Housewives and Ethan in Teen Wolf, came out as gay in a series of posts on Instagram in Jan 2016.
"I didn't actually give a f**k at that point because, for me, not that I was living nether duress, only I'd said to myself if I can't do this when I'k young, I'm not sure I wanna stay in this business," Carver told the June issue of Attitude about his decision to come out publicly
"I think the world is changing, representation is changing, and I wanted to be a part of that and I wouldn't wanna exist in this business organization if I couldn't exist a part of that."
In the interview, Carver also opened upwards well-nigh the impact of learning at the age of 12 that his father Robert Mortensen was gay.
thirty. Jake Zyrus
After coming out as a lesbian, the Glee star who played Sunshine came out as trans in 2017, revealing his post-transition await and new proper name.
Zyrus spoke for the first time in July 2017, since his transition to male person.
He began work on the musical hit in its second season, starring in the part of Sunshine Corazon, a strange exchange student.
Speaking to Philippino publication The Inquirer, Zyrus said transitioning was a natural process.
"I just went with the catamenia, as always," he said. "I had to wait, considering I knew it wasn't going to be like shooting fish in a barrel."
north 2013 the Glee star, known and so as Charice Pempengco, came out as a lesbian.
A year later during an interview with Boob tube personality, Oprah Winfrey, Zyrus revealed his "soul" was male.
The interview with Oprah took place on a 'where are they now' special where she catches up with celebrities that were once in the public centre.
"I knew when I was five," he told Oprah.
"I was in grade school and I saw this girl and I felt unlike… I didn't know what it was, but I only knew at that time, it felt special.
31. Jim Parsons
Big Blindside Theory star Jim Parsons came out as gay in 2012, and later said information technology was "wonderful" to come out quietly.
He is idea to exist the highest paid out gay actor in Hollywood.
Check out some photos from his beautiful wedding to Todd Spiewak earlier in 2017.
The ceremony was conducted in the Rainbow Room, a glamorous New York landmark in the Rockefeller Plaza, according to Folio 6.
While Parsons has been together with Spiewak for near a decade and a one-half, the role player only came out in 2012, when a New York Times writer outed him.
The thespian, who plays Sheldon Cooper on the bear witness – which was renewed for seasons 11 and 12 before this yr – generally keeps his private life to himself.
32. Michelle Rodriguez
2 Fast two Furious actor Michelle Rodriguez came out as bisexual back in 2013, maxim she is "likewise curious non to be".
She defended a controversial picture she starred in that included a forced gender-reassignment surgery, maxim that it fabricated her realise her femininity.
She told Page Vi: "I had to record my breasts down, and I still looked similar a hermaphrodite."
Going on she said playing the character made her realise she had been more feminine than she idea: "All my life I felt alienated by women. They were into the lipstick, nails, and dressing upwards, and I ever felt like a tomboy, like I didn't fit in.
"I felt like I had masculine qualities versus feminine qualities merely because I am an alpha. I practise what I want, and never let anybody tell me otherwise. I am kind of hardcore about that. But and so when I go and actually play a man, I realized I am such a girl; there is null manly almost me."
Adding: "I was and so confused growing upwardly, so it took playing a man to make me a adult female."
33. Janet Mock
Mock came out as transgender publicly in 2011.
She is a New York Times bestselling author, journalist and Idiot box host. She frequently campaigns on trans rights.
In 2015, Mock said she would "unapologetically" comprehend her identity.
In a new interview, Mock says she has a renewed energy to deal with social issues, given the current administration.
"It created an urgency in me … [to be] even more than exact, even more than clear, even more conscious of speaking truth to power in the way that'due south inclusive," Mock tells Rolling Stone.
Earlier this year, after featuring Mock on their show, a comedian in the US refused to apologise after making a 'joke' about killing trans people on a radio bear witness.
34. Ryan O'Callaghan
Ryan O'Callaghan was drafted to the New England Patriots in 2006, and has too played for the Kansas Urban center Chiefs.
The player, who is at present retired from professional football, opened up about his sexuality in an interview with Outsports.
O'Callaghan explained that he had tried to come out in one case earlier, in 2014, when he publicly thanked his boyfriend while receiving an award.
But in 2017 he after came out once again as the acknowledgement went by and large unnoticed.
The player, who is now retired from professional person football, opened up about his sexuality in an interview with Outsports.
O'Callaghan explained that he had tried to come out one time before, in 2014, when he publicly thanked his boyfriend while receiving an laurels.
However, the news went pretty much unnoticed, so he took the spring again in an interview this week.
He explained to Outsports of being in the cupboard: "I used football as a encompass for my life. Football was the most masculine affair I could practise, so I decided to dedicate myself to football game.
"No one is going to assume the large football game player is gay. It's why a football team is such a good place to hide."
35. Ian Thorpe
Legendary Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe came out as gay back in 2014.
He has since spoken at length about his reasons for not coming out and why he denied existence gay for so long.
The Australian five-time Olympic gold medallist faced rumours nearly his sexuality for years, but e'er aggressively denied existence gay.
He came out in 2014, explaining in a Boob tube interview: "I've wanted to [come up out] for some time… I'one thousand comfortable proverb I'm a gay man."
Since coming out, Thorpe has been linked in tabloids to Ricky Martin, but is currently in a relationship with model Ryan Channing.
The swimmer, who first represented Australia internationally at the age of 14, spoke about his struggles with his sexuality.
Speaking on ABC show Anh's Brush With Fame, he confessed: "I wish I had come out earlier."
He said: "You lot know I was [first] accused of being gay when… I retrieve I was 16 at the time.
"Just considering it was kind of similar I was being accused of information technology, I'd always thought of information technology, as that being a bad thing."
36. Vanessa Carlton
Thousand Miles singer Carlton came out at a Pride effect in Nashville in 2010.
She told an audience of 18,000 people at a gay and lesbian festival in Nashville, Tennessee that she was "proud" of her sexual orientation.
Carlton said: "I've never said this earlier, but I am a proud bisexual woman."
The A G Miles star, 29, was headlining the Nashville Pride Festival at the metropolis'due south Riverfront Park.
She has previously dated John Mayer and Third Heart Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins.
Her declaration follows the one made by actress Anna Paquin recently.
Paquin appeared in a public service advert to declare she was bisexual.
37. Michael Stipe
REM frontman Stipe came out as gay in 2008, a few years before the American indie icons called it a solar day in 2011.
The year the band split up, Stipe went on to say he was "80 percentage gay". He later said that he was reluctant to get tested for HIV in the 1980s.
The singer, who has previously described himself as "80% gay", said on Logo's Television set special Trailblazers that he is proud of the progress made towards gay rights.
He said: "In the early Eighties, as a 22-year-onetime queer man living during the Reagan-Bush administration, I was afraid to get tested for HIV for fearfulness of quarantine, the threat of internment camps and having my basic civil rights stripped away.
"I waited five years to get my first anonymous exam.
"I am happy that attitudes have matured and changed, and I feel lucky that I live in a land where acceptance, tolerance and policy toward HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ bug accept avant-garde equally far every bit they accept."
Stipe was the lead vocaliser of ring R.E.Thou until their separate in 2011.
38. Amber Heard
Danish Girl actor Amber Heard has been song almost her bisexuality for years. She recently said being married to Johnny Depp doesn't ascertain her sexuality.
This twelvemonth she spoke well-nigh an "obsession" with bisexuality in Hollywood.
Tabloid newspaper the Sun claimed in a sensational report that Heard'southward "bisexual tendencies" and a close friendship with Cara Delevingne led to the breakdown of her marriage with Johnny Depp.
The 30-year-old finalised her divorce with Depp amid allegations of domestic abuse and donated the whole of the $7 one thousand thousand divorce settlement to charity.
The star has been open well-nigh her bisexuality and past relationships with women.
Speaking at the Pride and Prejudice issue held by the Economist, she says she became "attached" to the label bisexual.
"Then I realised the gravity of what I had done and why then many people-studio execs, agents, advisors-did not want this coming before my name," The Danish Girl star said.
"I became attached to a label. I've never seen myself defined by the person I'm with."
39. Sarah Paulson
American Horror Story star Paulson has been out for years and has spoken more recently almost her relationship with star The netherlands Taylor.
This year she said she wanted to play President Trump in a one-act sketch.
Paulson was named alongside Gavin Grimm and RuPaul as one of the most influential LGBT people by TIME magazine.
The American Horror Story star also expressed her desire to play Trump in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.
"I'd like to play Donald Trump," the Emmy Award-winner said, adding: "Why not? That's an acting challenge to be sure."
forty. Miley Cyrus
The Climb singer Miley Cyrus came out as pansexual back in 2015. She later confirmed she is gender-neutral.
The girl of state star Billy Ray Cyrus first achieved fame as Disney Channel graphic symbol Hannah Montana, only took a more than singular path with her 2013 turning-point album Bangerz.
Speaking about her appearance as a gauge on The Voice right after the US presidential election, she said she had wanted to modify people's minds about gender.
"I needed some sparkle in my life, to make me able to deal. Radiating love is something that is of import to me – hopefully, that is being political."
The Wrecking Ball singer explained that she doesn't experience like a girl or a boy: "I just feel similar nothing."
And the 24-year-one-time said she sometimes asks her fiancé, player Liam Hemsworth, "Do you like existence a boy?"
41. Zachary Quinto
Star Trek star Zachary Quinto came out as gay in 2011.
He has since said he thinks he gets more than work since coming out.
Quinto dedicated the determination to brand Hikaru Sulu gay in the latest Star Trek pic, after George Takei said a new grapheme should be introduced as queer.
He besides said other actors in the cupboard had come to him for help.
Quinto has accused Kevin Spacey of a "calculated manipulation" afterward he came out equally gay following allegations of sexual assault.
Firm of Cards star Keven Spacey confirmed that he is gay for the first time today post-obit allegations he fabricated sexual advances on a teenage male child.
In an interview with BuzzFeed, Star Trek star Anthony Rapp claimed that when he was 14, Spacey invited him to a party at his New York apartment, and while drunk, tried to seduce him by climbing on pinnacle of him.
In response, Spacey said he didn't think the incident, but apologised for "deeply inappropriate drunken behaviour."
42. Bella Thorne
Back in 2016 Disney star Bella Thorne came out as bisexual after posting a video on Snapchat of her kissing a woman.
She later responded to a Twitter user who asked if she was bisexual, confirming that she is.
Ane of the pictures shows the xviii-year-old taking hold of her female partner and kissing her, the other shows her being the recipient.
It didn't take long for fans to react to the news.
Responding to comments she received, Bella took to Twitter to thank fans for being and then accepting.
43. Mara Wilson
The Matilda actor came out back in 2016, in the wake of the Orlando Pulse massacre.
"I *used* to identify every bit by and large straight. I've embraced the Bi/Queer label lately," she said.
She more recently chosen for more boring representation of bisexual people in film and television.
Speaking to Lambda Legal, Wilson explained that at the time she had hoped coming out would enable her to be a platform which would champion LGBTQ+ voices in light of a horrific assail against the customs.
Related: Mara Wilson is fighting for more 'ho-hum' bi representation
Withal, when reflecting on the decision Wilson explained that she hasn't done information technology at that time.
She said: "I oftentimes wish that I hadn't done it and then because I got accused of taking advantage of a tragedy for personal attending.
"Now conspicuously I like attention, just I am not and so draconian as to make a tragedy virtually myself, my life and my story. That isn't what I was going for."
The star explained that she believes information technology's important for people with privilege to come out.
"I think that if you're in a place of security and privilege — which I can admit that I am — it'southward of import for y'all to [come out].
"I don't run across myself every bit anybody's savior, but I'd rather information technology were me — who can afford therapy and beget this platform — getting harassed for being who I am than a young LGBTQ kid. I recollect it's of import."
44. Kevin Spacey
Star Trek histrion Anthony Rapp said that in 1986, a 26-year-old Spacey invited him to a party at his New York apartment and climbed on top of the child, "trying to get with me sexually."
Rapp, at present 46, said he managed to abscond before the encounter progressed whatever further.
In response, Spacey wrote on Twitter that he didn't remember the incident, but apologised for "what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behaviour."
The Baby Driver actor added that he was "distressing for the feelings he [Rapp] describes having carried with him all these years," earlier saying: "I choose now to live as a gay man."
45. Nyle DiMarco
America'due south Adjacent Elevation Model star DiMarco came out in 2015, saying he is "sexually fluid".
The model – 1 of last year's most popular contestants – revealed to his sexuality to his followers during a Twitter Q&A.
He later on said he is glad to be deaf because information technology means he doesn't have to listen to Donald Trump.
The America's Next Meridian Model and Dancing With the Stars winner says being deaf is not just part of his identity, but also an "advantage".
"I don't find non beingness able to hear an obstacle or a boundary," he told the crowd at the Man Rights Campaign National Gala over the weekend.
"For me and for many of u.s., information technology is an advantage and it'due south a role of my identity in fact. It'southward a huge office of who I am," he added.
"In this very turbulent political twelvemonth, trust me, don't you want to sometimes just plow the volume off completely when Donald Trump starts to bluster?"
46. Gordon Thomson
One of the original stars of Dynasty, Gordon Thomson came out equally gay.
Popular Usa soap opera Dynasty aired on ABC from 1981 until 1989.
Gordon Thomson played the role of Adam Carrington, the villainous the long-lost son of characters Blake Carrington and Alexis Carrington.
Thompson came out in an interview with the Daily Beast.
He explained that to come out "to come out [in the 80s] would have been professional suicide without question".
47. Etta Ng
Ng took to Instagram to tell the earth that she is a gay, posing in front of a rainbow coloured groundwork.
Etta is the daughter of Jackie Chan and former Hong Kong beauty queen Elaine Ng.
The 17-twelvemonth-onetime wrote: "In case no i got the memo, I'grand gay."
The revelation was followed by the hashtags "#lgbtqai, #lgbt, #lesbian, and #androgynous".
Etta was born following an extra-marital affair, and it is not not known how he has reacted to her coming out.
Chan, who has appeared in more 150 films, as well has a son, histrion Jaycee, with his wife and erstwhile actress Lin Feng-jiao.
48. Ryan Atkin
A referee, Ryan Atkin became the first out gay official in English football game.
Ryan Atkin has given a broad-ranging interview with Heaven Sports, where he spoke about his sexuality and the homophobia that still blights football game.
"For a number of reasons, I feel it's the right time for me to say that I'm someone involved in professional football who happens to be gay," Atkin said.
"Clearly, this is a step into the unknown – in our UK pro game, it's widely known that in that location are currently no openly gay footballers, nor have in that location been any openly gay referees until now.
"I hope that my action, however small-scale, will assist give others in a like situation the confidence to be themselves."
Of potentially existence driveling by fans, Atkin said: "Of course, beingness gay doesn't affair in the context of refereeing a match but if I'one thousand speaking almost equality and multifariousness, then I'1000 going to mention that I'grand gay because it's relevant.
49. Ellen Stephenson
Stephenson, a 20-yr-old creator from Brighton, UK, had gained more than than 3,000 subscribers from her mannerly videos.
But while she began socially transitioning at home at the historic period of 11, Ellen was non open about her gender identity online – until now.
Ellen told PinkNews that being openly trans at abode for and so long while not out online was a "Hannah Montana situation."
She explained: "I started living my life within the firm every bit a girl [while still presenting every bit male person to the outside world]".
The announcement, released on her channel, was a shock for some of her fans.
Ellen said she originally didn't have whatsoever plans to come out when starting on YouTube.
50. Matt Bomer
The American Horror Story star has been out as gay since 2012. He married his husband Simon Halls in 2011.
The Magic Mike star revealed his parents' shocking reaction to his coming out in May 2017.
He has since revealed how his parents reacted to the news of his coming out in an interview with Out magazine.
He said the gay publication: "Telling your family is a huge, huge deal.
"I really view my life as divided between the time before I told my parents, and the time later on.
"And the decisions I made, and the life I lived, before and after, are vastly different. Information technology'south night and day."
"There was radio silence for a long, long time, at least six months," he added.
"And and so I came abode and we had the blowup that I'd always feared.
"Simply we got that out of the manner, and nosotros got downward to the business of figuring out how to love each other."
51. Tyler the Creator
Tyler the Creator who has been involved in controversy over anti-gay lyrics in the by appears to have come up out in a new runway.
His track 'I Aint Got Time!' was leaked over the weekend along with other tracks from the album 'Bloom Boy'.
It was leaked two weeks before it is set to be officially released.
In the leaked rail, he says: "Side by side line volition take them like woah / I been kissing white boys since 2004."
Reports also compared the lyrics to some other song leaked, titled 'Garden Shed'.
In that track he says: "That was existent dear I was in, ain't no reason to pretend / All my friends was lost / They couldn't read the signs / I didn't wanna talk / I tell 'em my location and they ain't want to walk."
Just in a previous rail, Yonkers, released in 2011, Tyler denies existence gay.
He says: "I'm not gay, I just wanna boogie to some Marvin".
The rapper, accused of homophobia for using the give-and-take "faggot" in many of his songs has denied he is anti-gay.
52. Lil Peep
'Mail-Emo' rapper Lil Peep has come out as bisexual in a couple of nonchalant tweets.
The New York-built-in xx-twelvemonth-old sent a tweet this calendar week simply confirming that he was coming out.
He wrote on Twitter: "Yes I'm bi sexual".
In a later tweet he added: "Who wants a osculation".
The rapper, real name Gustav Ahr, has more 112,000 followers on Instagram and 82,000 followers on SoundCloud.
He posted his debut song on SoundCloud just over a year ago.
In a Pitchfork profile earlier this twelvemonth, the rapper spoke of his paradigm.
He said: "It'south similar professional wrestling—everyone has to be a character."
"If you're not a fun plenty grapheme, then no one'south gonna f**g with you because you don't have plenty sh*t that's different."
According to Pitchfork, Lil Peep'southward manner is described as "post emo" or "new emo".
53. Teddy Quinlivan
Quinlivan, a model who has walked for anybody from Marc Jacobs to Louis Vuitton, has come out as transgender.
Teddy, who has likewise worn the likes of Gucci and Versace on the rails over the past few months, made the annunciation during an interview with CNN Fashion.
The model, who transitioned when she was 16, said she wanted to come out now because of the way Donald Trump'south administration is treating trans people.
Last month, Trump officially and indefinitely instructed the Pentagon to ban transgender troops from serving in the Us Military.
Quinlivan, 23, said: "I've decided to reveal my trans identity because of the political climate in the world right now – particularly in the U.s.a..
"We made an amazing progression under the Obama administration, and since the new administration took office there'southward been a kind of backlash."
Source: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/07/12/43-celebrities-you-didnt-know-were-lgbt/
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