Later in the interview, she discussed the importance of her album "Dirty Computer," especially in terms of pushing the boundaries of what it means to exist as a queer black woman. Initially identifying as bisexual, Monáe said she came to the label pansexual - which GLAAD defines as "anyone attracted to people of all genders or sexes, or regardless of sex or gender" - after reading more about it and feeling like the definition aligned more with who she was. "Being a queer black woman in America," she told the publication, "someone who has been in relationships with both men and women - I consider myself to be a free-a- m-r." Musician and actress Janelle Monáe told Rolling Stone that she was pansexual in an April 2018 cover story, after years of speculation among fans and members of the media. Singh is the first openly bisexual woman and the first woman of color talk show host in US history - which she has had no problem discussing and even joking about on her show.ĭimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue It was announced in March that Singh would be replacing the time slot for NBC's "Last Call with Carson Daly" to launch her own show, "A Little Late with Lilly Singh," which premiered in September.
"The very next meet-and-greet that I did after coming out was in India, and I would say 50% of people in that line came out to me," she said.
Singh went on to discuss the significance of her coming out particularly as a South Asian woman during the same interview. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she discussed the process of getting the courage to tell her family and friends, setting a deadline for herself to tell them about her sexuality by her 30th birthday. In a February tweet listing identities that have "proven to be obstacles from time to time" that she is now "fully embracing" as "superpowers," Singh listed "female," "coloured," and "bisexual." Like Lil Nas X, YouTube sensation Lilly Singh took to Twitter to come out this year. Lilly Singh at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "Camp: Notes on Fashion" exhibition on May 6, 2019, in New York. But if you're doing this while you're at the top, you know it's for real and it's showing it doesn't really matter, I guess."įans and celebrities alike have celebrated Lil Nas X's decision to come out publicly.
"So it's like, for me, the cool dude with the song on top of everything to say this - any other time, 'I'm doing this for attention,' in my eyes. "Come on now, if you're really from the hood, you know," Lil Nas X replied. While explaining why he thought it was "necessary" for himself to come out, comedian Kevin Hart interjected, asking why the rapper would be taught to hate gay people.
In a later interview on LeBron James' new HBO show "The Talk," Lil Nas X candidly discussed why he decided to come out during the height of his popularity, and the difficulty of growing up being taught to hate his sexuality. On the last day of Pride month, the artist unleashed a flurry of tweets telling fans to "listen closely" to "C7osure," the last track on his EP "7." A rainbow emoji was also thrown in the mix for some added hinting.Īfter the Twittersphere exploded in debate about the meaning of the tweets, Lil Nas X tweeted "thought I made it obvious" attached to two pictures - one of the album cover to his single "Panini" and the other a zoomed-in photo of the same picture, focused on a rainbow in the cover art. "Old Town Road" rapper Lil Nas X came out to fans in an unconventional, yet all-too-Gen-Z way in June 2019.