These are the celebs who came out in 2024 (so far)
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We're almost halfway through 2024, and already, several celebs have come out as queer!
As the months go on (and as we edge closer and closer to Pride Month), we can expect that several more celebs will come out, but these ones have already done it, earning extra credit for coming first!
Here are the celebrities who have come out as a part of the LGBTQ+ community in 2024!
1. Madame LaQueer
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In January, RuPaul's Drag Race season 4 star Madame LaQueer came out as trans, changing her name to Cassie out of drag and Madame Cassandra Uzumaki LaQueer while in drag.
2. Tom Hollander
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Veteran actor Tom Hollander was asked about playing many gay roles this January and said that, "for some reason, who I am, who I am as a person allows me to present as gay. Yeah, sometimes I do present as gay. I mean, I always did, so—" and added that his "sexuality is sufficiently liberal to have encompassed many different experiences, which are not anyone's business."
3. Reneé Rapp
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Singer and actor Reneé Rapp has been out as queer for a while, but she had previously labeled herself as bisexual. This year, she clarified that she now identifies as a lesbian, both on SNL and then in several interviews where she talked about her growing understanding of her own sexuality.
4. Amanda Tori Meeting
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Amanda Tori Meeting, a fan favorite drag queen from season 16 of RuPaul's Drag Race, also came out as trans this year. "It was kind of jarring to go from that environment where everyone is calling me Amanda and she/her-ing me [on Drag Race], to being called by my government name again, and he/him," she said. "I was like, ‘This is very much not correct for me.’ That experience helped push me out of the nest a little bit and crack the egg."
5. Colin Grafton
Dancing on Ice star and professional figure skater Colin Grafton came out in February 2024. He told PinkNews in an interview:
"It's been a long journey, but now I am proud of myself and I'm proud of my sexual orientation and I want to let other people know that they should be proud of every part of themselves too."
6. Sean Gunn
This Olympic swimmer came out as gay this year after representing Zimbabwe in the 2016 Rio Olympics. He said he was supported by fellow athletes when he came out. "If anything, friendships just became better," he said. "I think in my head I built it up for so long, and I was terrified that the way they acted or treated me would be different. But I was really lucky that everyone was so amazing and wanted me to be the happiest version of myself."
7. Tim Brewster & Kyle Friend
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Beach volleyball partners Tim Brewster and Kyle Friend went from just being peers in the sport to actually falling in love and developing a romantic relationship between them. I mean, how can you NOT stan this gay power couple in beach volleyball?!
"Seeing an example of someone who is out and confident and able to do volleyball, I'd never been around that," Brewster told Volleyball Magazine. This story sounds like the plot of a queer rom-com novel, and we're obsessed.
8. Sophia Bush
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Actor and One Tree Hill star Sophia Bush came out in an essay for Glamour where she addressed her new relationship with soccer player Ashlyn Harris. "I think I’ve always known that my sexuality exists on a spectrum. Right now I think the word that best defines it is queer. I can’t say it without smiling, actually. And that feels pretty great," she wrote.
9. Matt Terry
X-Factor season 13 winner Matt Terry came out this year when he released his new single "His Car," which detailed a relationship he had with a man when he was in his early twenties.
10. Daniel Bedingfield
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Singer and older brother of Natasha Bedingfield, Daniel Bedingfield had a few hits in the early 2000s and this year, came out as queer. "I wrote this song with a man I loved about a girl we both loved," he said at a concert before performing his unreleased song "Borderline." "In my era, you had to be gay or straight, or f**k you," he added.
11. Taylor Tomlinson
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Comedian and late night host Taylor Tomlinson came out as bisexual in her latest standup special Taylor Tomlinson: Have It All.
"So, anyway, I've been trying to figure out if I'm bisexual, or if I just binged Euphoria too fast," she quipped in the special. "Cause I've been trying to date women, but it is so hard. I don't know how to get women to like me."
"It's scary to just say you're bisexual, cause then someone's always like, 'Fuckin' prove it. Here’s a picture of Margot Robbie, are you wet? Let me feel,'" she added.
12. Morphine Love Dion
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Another Drag Race season 16 queen, Morphine Love Dion took to Twitter earlier this year to clarify that she's nonbinary when people started mentioning her in conversations about men getting BBLs. "Hiii I love y’all [so much] but [please] stop tagging me in this. Y'all know I’m a they/them/her right? And if you didn’t know, now [you] know. [heart emoji]," they wrote.
13. Maya Massafera
With 8.12 million subscribers on YouTube, 5.5 million followers on Instagram, Brazilian influencer Maya Massafera came out as a trans woman in May 2024 and appeared as the cover star of Vogue Brasil's digital Pride issue.
"There's the saying that 'life begins at 40.' Mine literally started at 43," Massafera wrote in a personal essay published on Vogue Brasil. "For the first time, I understand what it means to be happy. My state of mind is happy."
14. Jessica Madsen
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Best known for playing the fan-favorite character of Cressida Cowper on Bridgerton, Jessica Madsen shared a coming-out post in celebration of Pride Month this year.
"In love with a woman, loud about it and proud about it! [rainbow emoji]," Madsen wrote in an Instagram post, adding hashtags such as #pride, #pridemonth, #loveislove, and #gaypride.
15. Bulk Bronson
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Another coming-out announcement that took place on Pride Month came from professional wrestler Bulk Bronson, who competes within the All Elite Wrestling (AEW) league.
Bronson came out as bisexual after his partner, Gabby Forza, shared a post reaffirming that she's bisexual/pansexual.
16. Jessica Gunning
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Baby Reindeer breakout star Jessica Gunning came out as a "big, old gay" while telling a story about her "gay awakening" — which involved none other than kissing Cate Blanchett!
While starring in , Gunning and Blanchett had a kissing scene that actively prompted Gunning to question her sexuality. "I should have known then. All these signs from pre-Reindeer staring me in the face," she explained.
17. Chappell Roan
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One of the most exciting artists to enter the pop music sphere in the last couple of years, Chappell Roan — who previously identified as queer — updated her fans that she's "a lesbian now." Frankly, we don't even have to explain how much we're LIVING for it.
"Some sh*t's changed… but, b*tch, I hope you're happy, cause I'm a lesbian now!" she said in a video re-posted via X user @subwaymp3.
18. Maren Morris
After spending the last few years going against the anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric pushed by conservatives and announcing that she'd be leaving country music, Maren Morris came out as bisexual in an Instagram post celebrating Pride Month.
"Happy to be the B in LGBTQ+. Happy pride [rainbow emoji]," the singer wrote in the caption.
19. Deshawn Radden
This year's Pride Month was also a great moment for Survivor 41 runner-up Deshawn Radden to come out. As he outlined a "running list of things" that he is, the reality TV star included "QUEER Black man."
"I came out to my family and a few close friends a few years ago," the Survivor album wrote in the caption. "The journey only began at that point, and it's taken much growing, learning & unlearning, and developing self-love to get here, especially as this part of my identity intersects with my faith. These last few seasons of my life have been transformative for me in that way."
Radden continued, "If I'm [for real], I had a fear of losing people because of who I was. However, my loved ones' responses showed me that unconditional love is just that, unconditional. So now I take solace in knowing who is for me will always rock! And beyond anything, I'm grateful to show up in all spaces as my full self now."
20. Carissa Rae Martin
On Wednesday, June 12, former Us the Duo band member Carissa Rae Martin wrote an essay for Out describing the coming-out journey that she's experienced after her recent divorce.
"Coming out should have been a sacred process. Something that should have been on my own terms," Martin wrote. "But that was ripped away from me. It was one thing to be outed to my friends and family, but to be outed publicly through a song for personal gain and promotion? Absolutely sickening."
In the essay, Martin later discussed that she "decided to finally reclaim [her] power," adding that coming to terms with her queerness helped her leave what she described as a "toxic relationship."
