Wonderwall.com is sharing all the ways celebrities have told the world about their sexual or gender identities, beginning with this reality star… Months after "Dance Moms" alum JoJo Siwa debuted her romance with a woman in early 2021, another former "Dance Moms" Star has done the same. Though Chloé Lukasiak hasn't addressed her sexuality directly, photos she shared on social media in October 2021 served as her unofficial public coming out. She posted a slideshow of pics of herself looking cozy with skateboarder Brooklinn Khoury on Instagram on Oct. 7, and Chloé's rep later confirmed to E! News that the reality star and the athlete are dating. Chloe, a source elaborated, "is in a place where she feels comfortable sharing her relationship and where she is in her life [with the public] … She is still growing and learning who she is, and she knows there are many others out there who are too. She knows that there is power in sharing her story and that it could help others who look up to her or could benefit from seeing someone like her living her truth and not hiding who or what makes her happy."

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On the Oct. 12, 2021, episode of "Teen Mom OG," Amber Portwood, who has two kids with two male exes, revealed that she's not straight. "People are probably going to be a bit shocked that I am bisexual, that I have had a relationship with a woman for eight months before," she said, as reported by Page Six, adding that the romance took place more than a decade earlier when she was about 20. Amber said she decided to come out Publicly because she wants her children (Leah, with ex Gary Shirley, and James, with ex Andrew Glennon) to know her truth. "Leah and James are actually a really, really big factor. I don't want them to ever think it's bad … Who am I to sit here and hide forever, which is what I was actually planning on doing anyways. I was going to go to the grave with this." Amber came out to her mom — who responded with support — on the same episode after she explained, "I'm very attracted to men, but I'm also similarly very attracted to women as well."

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In her 2021 book "Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark," Elvira actress Cassandra Peterson revealed that she'd been in a monogamous relationship with a woman for the previous 19 years. During a September 2021 interview with the Los Angeles Daily News, the actress acknowledged that she's still attracted to men and said that she considers herself sexually fluid. "I just met this particular person, and I fell in Love," she said of her long-term partner and former trainer, Teresa Wierson. As for her decision to finally go public with their relationship of nearly two decades, "Keeping a secret doesn't feel good," she said. "I'm glad to have it out there. I mean, it does worry me. I have moments where I go, 'Maybe people won't like me anymore' and 'Maybe I won't get work anymore.' It's ridiculous to think that, but I have friends who are gay and have come out of the closet and it affected their work, relationships and their life. So it's not so far-fetched to be worried. But on the other side of that, it's so draining keeping it a secret. It's not good for you, it's not good for us. It sucks the energy out of you." Cassandra later told TooFab, "I still consider myself straight, even though I was attracted to a woman … but now there's so many different things, you can be gender fluid, just attracted to that person. I don't think I got [to] 50 and suddenly went, 'Hey, I'm gay. Oh, d***, why'd I wait so long?! I just met a person who was a really special person and who I fell in love with. We were great friends and we fell in love. I don't know how it happened, it just did." She added that she waited so long to publicly open up about her relationship with Teresa because she felt she was "protecting the character of Elvira." Explained Cassandra, "Here Elvira is this big, straight [lusty person] going after guys all the time and you suddenly say, 'Oh, the person playing her is really with a woman.' It seems hypocritical and weird and I was trying to save my career and my character. I didn't know what to do. It's my means of making a living and I didn't want to throw that down the, you know, toilet and start over." She also noted that when she first came out to the people in her life, some of her older friends "had a little bit of a struggle" with the news.

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"Good Girls" and "Parenthood" alum Mae Whitman came out as pansexual on Aug. 16 in a tweet promoting her animated Disney Channel series "The Owl House," which includes LGBTQIA characters. "Just taking a moment to say I am SO proud to be even a small part of a show like The Owl House," she tweeted. "Being pansexual myself, I wish I had such incredible characters like Amity and Luz in my life when I was growing up. Queer representation is so so so important :,) keep it up world! #TOH." She followed that up with the message, "I know ppl might be unfamiliar with what pansexual means; for me it means I know I can fall in love with people of all genders. This is the word that fits me best and I'm proud+happy to be part of the Bi+ community :,) For more https://glaad.org/bisexual https://biresource.org."

In an August 2021 interview with Sunday Times Style promoting her book "Who Cares Wins: How to Protect the Planet You Love," British model-turned-author Lily Cole revealed that she identifies as queer. "I like that word because of its openness, because I think all those boundaries are quite rigid. I have lots of friends who identify as bisexual, lesbian, or whatever, who also identify as queer," she explained. "I've always been quite private about my private life, consciously, and I want to continue to be, so I don't feel the need to be explicit. At the same time I feel the need to acknowledge that I am not straight."

Emma Corrin, who played Princess Diana on season 4 of "The Crown," came out as queer in April 2021 and later revealed a preference for the pronounces "she/they." In an August 2021 interview with ITV's "Granada Reports," Emma shared more. "I think visibility is key with these things. My journey has been a long one and has still got a long way to go. I think we are so used to defining ourselves," they said, adding, "That's the way society works within these binaries, and it's taken me a long time to realize that I exist somewhere in between, and I'm still not sure where that is yet." Emma later posted the interview on their Instagram Story, explaining, "First time addressing my queerness and my journey on TV was scary! But visibility is key."

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"13 Reasons Why" star Tommy Dorfman — who played Ryan Shaver on the Netflix drama — reintroduced herself to the world as a trans woman in a July 2021 interview with Time magazine, explaining, "For a year now, I have been privately identifying and living as a woman — a trans woman. It's funny to think about coming out, because I haven't gone anywhere. I view today as a reintroduction to me as a woman, having made a transition medically. Coming out is always viewed as this grand reveal, but I was never not out. Today is about clarity: I am a trans woman. My pronouns are she/her. My name is Tommy."

Singer David Archuleta — the runner-up on season 7 of "American Idol" — came out as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community in a lengthy and loving June 12, 2021, social media post in which he urged others with strong religious beliefs like him to be understanding and compassionate of people like him. "I like to keep to myself but also thought this was important to share because I know so many other people from religious upbringings feel the same way," he began his post, which continued in the comments. "I've been open to myself and my close family for some years now that I am not sure about my own sexuality. I came out in 2014 as gay to my family. But then I had similar feelings for both genders so maybe a spectrum of bisexual. Then I also have learned I don't have too much sexual desires and urges as most people 💀which works I guess because I have a commitment to save myself until marriage 🤣. Which people call asexual when they don't experience sexual urges. There are people experiencing the same feelings of being LGBTQIA+ … who are wrestling to follow their beliefs that are so important to them, just as I have." David explained that he doesn't "have all the answers" but asked his followers to "please consider making room to be more understanding and compassionate to those who are LGBTQIA+, and those who are a part of that community and trying to find that balance with their faith which also is a huge part of their identity like myself. I think we can do better as people of faith and Christians, including Latter-day Saints, to listen more to the wrestle between being LGBTQIA+ and a person of faith." He explained he hopes to let people in his same situation "know you're not alone. You can be part of the LGBTQIA+ community and still believe in God and His gospel plan…" David explained, adding that he "tried for almost 20 years to try and change myself until I realized God made me how I am for a purpose."

"High School Musical: The Musical: The Series" actor Joshua Bassett casually came out in May 2021 and clarified things in June. In a chat with Clevver News, the singer-actor gushed about Harry Styles, calling the British heartthrob "cool" and "hot" before adding, "I guess this is also my coming out video." He then wrote on social media, in part, "Love who you love shamelessly," though stopped short of labeling his own sexuality, adding, "It's OK to be figuring out who you are." Joshua clarified things a little more in a June interview with GQ, confirming he isn't straight. "There are plenty of letters in the alphabet… Why bother rushing to a conclusion? Sometimes your letter changes, sometimes you try a different one, other times you realize you're not what you thought you were, or maybe you always knew. All of these can be true," he explained. "I'm happy to be a part of the LGBTQ+ community because they embrace all. Don't let anyone tell you love isn't love. They're the ones who probably need it the most."

Demi Lovato came out as non-binary and will now use they/them pronouns, the pop star revealed on their new podcast, "4D with Demi Lovato," in May 2021. "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," they explained. Demi has publicly shared their evolving identity regarding both sexuality and gender in recent years: In 2015 following the release of their song "Cool for the Summer," which featured lyrics flicking at sexual fluidity, Demi hinted in an interview on "Chatty Man" that they weren't straight. Then in 2017, after previously only publicly dating men, they were romantically linked to a woman. In 2018, Demi told InStyle, "I'm very fluid, and I think love is love. You can find it in any gender. I like the freedom of being able to flirt with whoever I want." In a January 2020 interview on "Radio Andy," Demi recalled coming out to their parents three years earlier. "I didn't officially tell my parents that I saw myself ending up possibly with a woman until 2017," they explained. "It was actually emotional, but really beautiful. After everything was done, I was like, shaking and crying. I just felt overwhelmed. I have such incredible parents. They were so supportive." Demi added, "My mom was the one that I was super-nervous about [telling], but she was like, 'I just want you to be happy.' And that was so beautiful and amazing. I'm so grateful." More recently, in a March 2021 interview on the "Joe Rogan Experience" podcast, Demi confirmed they are pansexual. "[I like] anything, really," they said. "I heard someone call the LGBTQIA+ community 'the alphabet mafia.' … That's it! That's what I'm going with. I'm part of the alphabet mafia and proud."

In May 2021, "Dance Moms" alum Zackery Torres took to TikTok to share some new pronouns: they/she. "I'm transitioning. That means I'm transgender if you didn't know," she explained in the post. The University of Southern California graduate later shared how she felt about the reaction to her big news. "Don't really have a ton of words to express how I am feeling right now, other than grateful. Grateful to everyone who has supported me and continued to help me be my full self. Grateful for the outpour[ing] of love and support. Grateful to all the advocates who made this possible," she wrote on Instagram. "As I sit here with my [mouth] still open, it is important to recognize the amount of LGBTQIA+ individuals who do not receive this loving response. There is still work to be done, and I cannot wait to be a part of it. Much love, and HAPPY EARLY PRIDE MONTH!"

"The Bachelor" season 23 lead Colton Underwood — who became known as the virgin Bachelor during his tenure on the show — came out in an interview with Robin Roberts that aired on "Good Morning America" in April 2021. "I've ran from myself for a long time. I've hated myself for a long time. And I'm gay. And I came to terms with that earlier this year and have been processing it. And the next step in all of this was sort of letting people know," explained Colton, who had high profile relationships with Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman and Bachelor Nation stars Tia Booth and Cassie Randolph in recent years. He revealed he knew it was time to accept his truth and come out publicly "because I got to a place where … I would've rather died than say I'm gay," he explained of his dark thoughts. The former professional football player, who said he knew he was "different" when he was 6, told Robin that now, he's "the happiest and healthiest" he's ever been.

Singer Kehlani shared her revelation about her sexual identity in 2021. Initially, while interacting with fans on Twitter in April 2018, she talked about identifying as queer. "I'm queer. Not bi, not straight. I'm attracted to women, men, REALLY attracted to queer men, non binary people, intersex people, trans people," she wrote, adding, "Lil poly pansexual papa hello good morning. Does that answer your questions?" She continued, "And since we on that… I'm the LEAST attracted to straight men, y'all really adorable sometimes tho. Bisexual men really are little gifts from god tho." When asked why she prefers the word queer to gay when describing herself, she clarified, "I felt gay always insisted there was still a line drawn as to which 'label' of human I was attracted when I really jus be walking around thinking ERRYBODY FINE." She later deleted some of her comments, explaining, "I retracted my queer tweet because i am being corrected about the way in which i listed the gender spectrum and i'm super super sensitive to being offensive especially when i'm only trying to appreciate. point is, i love love, and that love lies in every gender there is." In December 2020, Kehlani noted on Twitter that she uses she/they pronouns. Exactly three years after coming out as queer, on April 22, 2021, the R&B singer took to TikTok to share that she now identifies as a lesbian. "I finally know I'm a lesbian," she said. "I am gay, g-gay, gay." With a lighthearted tone, she said her friends and family told her they realized it before she did. "Everyone's just like, 'Duh. You're the only one who didn't f****** know. The f****** closet was glass.'"

In April 2021, "Celebrity Big Brother" alum Courtney Stodden came out as nonbinary. "They/them/theirs. I don't identify as she or her," the reality star and singer wrote on Instagram. "I've never felt like I ever fit in anywhere. I was bullied horribly in school because I was different. The other girls never understood me. It got so bad that my mom pulled me out of school. And still, I don't fit in. I never really connected with anyone my age." They continued, "My spirit is fluid with a kaleidoscope of color," adding the hashtags #bekind, #beopen and #loveyourself. Courtney added in a statement to People magazine, "When I look at myself in the mirror, I see a human being so far away from norms, misogyny & labels. I live by my own rules now. I'm excited to show the world all of the sides to who I am on this new journey in music."

Inspired by his character on "9-1-1: Lone Star" — who's gay — actor Ronen Rubinstein publicly came out in April 2021. "I fully identify as bisexual," he told Variety. "I literally just got goosebumps saying that. It feels so good to talk about it, it feels so good to finally be comfortable with it." The "Orange Is the New Black" alum, who immigrated to New York from Israel as a child, explained that "where I come from … people who have identified as bisexual or gay or as any part of the [LGBTQIA+] community, you're just not welcomed. It's as brutally honest as that. It's either you faced insane amounts of profanity, like the F-word was thrown around all the time, or you would get your a** kicked if you were gay. So there was definitely a fear of sort of embracing how I felt. I was definitely more aware of it in high school. I was aware of my feelings and how I started looking at men, but I couldn't talk to anybody about it." He credited his character's same-sex relationship on "Lonestar" as well as girlfriend Jessica Parker Kennedy for giving him the courage to come out. "She definitely encouraged me to be vocal about it,  just to live my truth," Ronen explained. "She's like, 'I love you for who you are, your full self and people will love you for who you are and your full self.'"

In January 2021, after days of dropping hints, social media star, singer and actress JoJo Siwa confirmed that she's a member of the LGBTQ+ community. "I have never, ever, ever been this happy before and it feels really awesome," she told fans in a lengthy Instagram Live video posted one day after she tweeted a photo of herself wearing a T-shirt that read "Best. Gay. Cousin. Ever." alongside the caption, "My cousin got me a new shirt." The "Dance Moms" alum, who'd also recently shared a TikTok video of herself singing along to Lady Gaga's LGBTQ anthem "Born This Way," told fans she wasn't ready to choose a specific label for herself "because I don't really know this answer." She added that her parents have known she's not straight and are supportive. "Around two years ago, [my mom] was like, 'I don't think you only like boys, that's totally OK.' … My family is awesome." A few weeks later, JoJo revealed she had a girlfriend who'd encouraged her to come out, Kylie Prew. In an April 2021 People magazine cover story, JoJo revealed she'd put more thought into how she'd describe herself. "I still don't know what I am. It's like, I want to figure it out. And I have this joke. Her name is Kylie. And so I say that I'm Ky-sexual," she quipped. "But like, I don't know, bisexual, pansexual, queer, lesbian, gay, straight. I always just say gay because it just kind of covers it or queer because I think the keyword is cool." However, she added, "I like queer. Technically, I would say that I am pansexual because that's how I have always been my whole life is just like, my human is my human."

T.J. Osborne — the frontman for duo Brothers Osborne — came out in an interview with TIME magazine published on Feb. 3, 2021. The musician said he's been out to his family and friends for years, but that the coronavirus pandemic inspired him to share his life truth with fans. "I'm very proud to put this out there," T.J. said in a video he posted on Instagram. "I want you to know … the person you've gotten to know over the years is me. Now you've just gotten to know more about me." T.J. — who's now the first and only openly gay man signed to a major music label in the country genre — was met with tons of support from the country music community on social media.

In February 2021, former WWE superstar Gabbi Tuft — who wrestled under the name Tyler Reks from 2007 to 2014 — came out as a transgender woman. "I know that there are thousands of transgender women, transgender men that are going through the same process I'm going through, and they don't have the support that I do," Gabbi told "Extra" host Billy Bush, praising wife Priscilla for being her rock. "And so here's what I pledge: I promise that I will share my story and be 100% transparent, because knowing that there is a light at the end of the tunnel can just be that ray of hope that keeps somebody with us, that keeps him alive, and lets them know, 'Yes, I can do this too.'"

"The Real Housewives of Orange County" star Braunwyn Windham-Burke publicly came out as a gay woman in December 2020. She shared the news about her sexuality in a video interview with GLAAD, explaining, "I'm finally comfortable enough to say I like women. I'm gay. I'm a member of the LGBTQ+ community. I'm a lesbian. It has taken me 42 years to say that but I am so proud of where I am right now. I'm so happy where I am. To be able to be comfortable in my own skin after so long is just so nice." She further shared that she had a new girlfriend (they split in early 2021) but planned to stay married to Sean Burke, her husband of more than 20 years with whom she has seven children. "I love Sean. I love him dearly, he is my person, he is my family," she said. "But I'm not attracted to men and I never have been." Sean took to his Instagram Story to publicly support his wife. "I love you. I'm proud of you. And I support you. Always," he wrote.

In December 2020, Elliot Page — who was previously known as Ellen Page — took to social media to publicly come out as transgender. The "Juno" and "Umbrella Academy" actor will use the pronouns he/they. "I feel lucky to be writing this. To be here. To have arrived at this place in my life," he wrote in part in a lengthy post. "I can't begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self. … I love that I am trans. And I love that I am queer." The announcement came six years after Elliot publicly came out as gay during the 2014 Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive conference benefiting LGBT youth in Las Vegas. "I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility," they said at the time. "I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission … I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of all that pain." In January 2018, Elliot announced his marriage to dancer-choreographer Emma Portner. In January 2021, they confirmed plans to divorce. In March 2021, Elliot became the first transgender man to appear on the cover of Time magazine. In the cover story, the "Umbrella Academy" star revealed that they underwent top surgery to remove breast tissue. "It has completely transformed my life," he told Time, adding that it was "not only life-changing but lifesaving."

In October 2020, Big Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin — who rose to fame on the Netflix documentary series "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness" — told Pink News, "I have always considered myself to be bisexual. Even though I've never had a wife, I could just as easily have a wife as a husband," she said. The "Dancing With the Stars" contestant, who's married men, explained that she began exploring her sexuality decades ago when she was engaged to a psychologist who worked with the LGBTQ community. "I was always very male-oriented in the things I did … I never had any mothering instincts or anything, you know, I never played with dolls. And so I always thought that there was something off there, that I couldn't quite put my finger on," she said of her childhood. "But it was during the '80s that I discovered that through dealing with the LGBT+ community that I [realized] I had just as equal feelings for women as I did for men." According to Carole, "I think we are all one and I just don't see us as being different genders or different colors or anything."

In 2016, "Teen Wolf" alum Tyler Posey clarified comments he'd made implying he was gay, explaining on Twitter, "I'm not gay [but] I fully support the LGBTQ community." But in August 2020, he revealed on his OnlyFans account, "yes, I have been with men before." The same month, he said on an Instagram Story that he'd also been intimate with trans women. A few months later in October 2020, the actor addressed those comments, telling SiriusXM's "The Jason Ellis Show" that he was so upset after reading about trans women who were being beaten and harassed, he felt he had to speak out. "I was hit with wanting just to come out myself with that whole thing and be honest about it," he said. "I know there's a lot of kids that look up to me and I just want to f****** get rid of that stigma [and show] you can be whoever you want to be, get with whoever you want to get with, and it doesn't affect you and it doesn't affect them. The world's f****** weird and it should be. And there's too much stigma on everything and sexuality, especially."

When "Reno 911!" alum Niecy Nash announced that she'd married musician Jessica Betts in August 2020, it signaled that she wasn't straight, though she's declined to put a label on her sexuality. The "Selma" and "Claws" actress, who was previously twice wed to men, later told People magazine her marriage to Jessica wasn't an official coming out moment. She described it as "going into myself and being honest about who I love," explaining, "I'm not limiting myself on what that love is supposed to look like." According to Niecy, her marriage to a woman "has absolutely nothing to do with gender and it has everything to do with her soul," adding, "I was not suppressing my sexuality my whole life. I love who I love. At one point in my life, I married twice and I love those people. And today I love this person. I've done everything I wanted to do on my own terms and my own way. So my choice now in a partner has nothing to do with who I've always been. It's a matter of who I am in this moment."

Four years after publicly coming out as bisexual, "Grey's Anatomy" alum Sara Ramirez came out as nonbinary. In an August 2020 Instagram post in which they used the hashtag #nonbinary, Sara wrote that they have the capacity to be a "Girlish boy," "Boyish girl," "Boyish boy," "Girlish girl," "All" and "Neither." Sara also indicated in their Instagram bio that they will use both she/her and they/them pronouns.

In June 2020, actress Lili Reinhart publicly came out as bisexual. The "Riverdale" star made the announcement on her Instagram Story while encouraging her followers to attend an LGBTQ+ for Black Lives Matter protest in the Los Angeles area. "Although I've never announced it publicly before, I am a proud bisexual woman," she wrote. "I will be joining this protest today. Come join."

Golden Globe-nominated "Hairspray" star Nikki Blonsky, who played Tracy Turnblad in the 2007 film, came out as a gay woman in June 2020 via social media. She posted a TikTok video in which she sang along and danced to Diana's Ross's hit "I'm Coming Out," captioning it, "Hi, it's Nikki Blonsky from the movie I'm Gay! #pride #imcomingout #hairspray." She shared the news on Instagram the same day, captioning a rainbow-filled image that read "I'M GAY!" with a similar sentiment: "I'm coming out! 🌈🌈🌈 #pride."

Over Pride weekend in June 2020, "Orange Is the New Black" star Taylor Schilling took to Instagram to reveal that she was romantically involved with musical and visual artist Emily Ritz. The move was seen as a public coming out for Taylor, who played a bisexual character, Piper Chapman, on the hit Netflix series and had long been loathe to discuss her dating life in interviews. "I've had very serious relationships with lots of people, and I'm a very expansive human. There's no part of me that can be put under a label. I really don't fit into a box — that's too reductive," she told ES Magazine in 2017.

"Supergirl" star Chyler Leigh came out as a member of the LGBTQ community in an essay published on Creating Change, a site she co-founded, in May 2020. In the piece titled "Wear Your Pride," she explained how much the scene where her "Supergirl" character, Alex Danvers, comes out as a lesbian resonated with her. "When I was told that my character was to come out in season 2, a flurry of thoughts and emotions flew through and around me because of the responsibility I felt to authentically represent Alex's journey. What I didn't realize was how the scene where she finally confessed her truth would leap off the pages of the script and genuinely become a variation of my own. IRL." Chyler, who came to fame on "Grey's Anatomy" — and has been married to actor-musician Nathan West, the father of her three kids, since 2002 — didn't specify in her post how she self-identifies but did go on to explain that though her character's words didn't "exactly match my personal dialogue, the heart behind it surely did." Chyler further explained, "It's been a long and lonely road for both my husband and myself but I can wholeheartedly say that after all these years, he and I are still discovering the depths of ourselves and each other, but throughout our journey, we've learned to be proud of who we are, no matter the cost."

"Moana" star Auli'i Cravalho used social media to come out as bisexual in April 2020 after a fan tweeted her asking if she likes girls. Auli'i responded, "If I may escort you to my TikTok…" and directed fans to her account. There, she'd posted a video of herself captioned "5:53a thirst trap" in which she lip-synced parts of Eminem's "Those Kinda Nights." The lyrics? "'Seriously though, jokes aside, how you doin'? You straight?'/ She said, 'No, I'm bi / She said, 'Are you drunk?,' I said, 'No, I'm high'/ 'I'm checkin' out the chick,' she said, 'So am I.'"

"Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" and "Detective Pikachu" actor Justice Smith publicly came out as queer in a June 2020 Instagram post while voicing his support for queer and trans people against the backdrop of a Black Lives Matter protest. He shared that he and his boyfriend, "Queen Sugar" actor Nicholas Ashe — who also reportedly publicly came out via the post — were protesting in New Orleans early in the month. "We chanted 'Black Trans Lives Matter' 'Black Queer Lives Matter' 'All Black Lives Matter.' As a black queer man myself, I was disappointed to see certain people eager to say Black Lives Matter, but hold their tongue when Trans/Queer was added," Justice wrote in part alongside a slideshow of photos from the event as well as with his love, Nicholas. Justice later wrote on Twitter, "yo tf i didn't come out, y'all came in."

In 2015, model-actress Cara Delevingne came out as bisexual in a story in Vogue. At the time, she was dating music star St. Vincent. In 2018, she discussed her gender identity, confirming that she is gender fluid. Then in a June 2020 interview with Variety to celebrate Pride Month, she gave fans an update on her sexual identity. "I always will remain, I think, pansexual," the British star said of her attraction to a person regardless of their sexual or gender identities. "However one defines themselves, whether it's 'they' or 'he' or 'she,' I fall in love with the person — and that's that. I'm attracted to the person." 

"What Not To Wear" star Stacy London rang in 2020 by coming out publicly with her girlfriend on Instagram. The star revealed that she and Cat Yezbak had been dating for a year. 

"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." star J. August Richards came out as a gay man during an April 2020 Instagram Live. While speaking about his new role on "Council of Dads," he said, "I knew that I could not portray this gay man honestly without letting you all know that I am a gay man myself." The following day, the actor, who previously starred as Charles Gunn on "Angel," said he experienced a "crushing avalanche of LOVE" after publicly coming out. "Who knew that something I once thought of as terrifying had within it something so beautiful," he said. "For every comment, like, emoji, repost, phone call, text message, everything. I felt it ALL… Thank you!!!"

YouTuber and singer Rebecca Black — who found fame in 2011 when the music video for her song "Friday" went viral — came out as queer in an April 2020 interview on the "Dating Straight" podcast. "I made a conscious decision to not like, 'come out,' but just to like, I don't know, people started asking and I just stopped responding. I'm still in the process it feels like," she explained to hosts Jack Dodge and Amy Ordman. "To me, the word 'queer' feels really nice," she added before explaining that she'd recently gotten out of a long relationship with a woman. "I have dated a lot of different types of people. I don't really know what the future holds."

In March 2020, Grammy-nominated rapper Da Brat came out on Instagram and also introduced her girlfriend, Jesseca "BB Judy" Dupart, the CEO of Kaleidoscope Hair Products. "Never have I EVER. Needless to say… I've always been a kind of private person until I met my heart's match who handles some things differently than I do," Da Brat wrote as she showed off an early birthday gift from her love — a new Bentley. BB Judy added, "I've never been SOOOO happy and honestly think that it's not only because of our connection but also because we really been to ourselves."

Jameela Jamil came out as queer in February 2020. The star of "The Good Place" took to to social media with her personal reveal after HBO Max announced that she'd be a judge on the voguing competition series "Legendary" — news that irked some members of the LGBTQ community who felt the show should feature its own. "Twitter is brutal. This is why I never officially came out as queer," Jameela wrote. "I added a rainbow to my name when I felt ready a few years ago, as it's not easy within the south Asian community to be accepted, and I always answered honestly if ever straight-up asked about it on Twitter. But I kept it low because I was scared of the pain of being accused of performative bandwagon jumping, over something that caused me a lot of confusion, fear and turmoil when I was a kid." She continued, "I didn't come from a family with *anyone* openly out. It's also scary as an actor to openly admit your sexuality, especially when you're a brown female in your thirties. This is absolutely not how I wanted it to come out. I'm jumping off this hell app for a while because I don't want to read mean comments dismissing this. You can keep your thoughts." She went on to explain that she's long been an ally of the community and urged people to focus on the show's contestants instead of her.

"The Flash" star Rick Cosnett took to Instagram in February 2020, to tell fans that he's gay, though he suspected it wasn't exactly news to many. "Hi, everyone. Dramatic pause … I'm gay," he said in his video post. "I just wanted everyone to know because I've made a promise to myself to, uh, live my truth every day, and sometimes that is a really hard thing to do when you have all these subconscious things you don't even know about from childhood, and from society, and from … just life." He added, "So, there you go. I'm sure most of you probably knew anyway. And, yeah, that's actually all I wanted to say."

DJ Qualls, who initially found fame in the 2000 comedy "Road Trip," took to Twitter in January 2020 to publicly come out as a gay man after first sharing his news during a comedy show. The star of "The New Guy" and "The Core" wrote: "It is 11:20pm. I just came out on stage at a @jimjefferies show in San Diego. Yep, I'm gay. Been gay this whole time. Tired of worrying about what people would think of me. Tired of worrying about what it would do to my career."

While chatting with Fader magazine in 2014 about debut album "In the Lonely Hour," Sam Smith revealed that it was "about a guy that I fell in love with last year, and he didn't love me back." The Grammy winner later spoke openly about being a "gay man." Then, in a March 2019 interview with Jameela Jamil's "I Weigh Interviews" Instagram-based series, Sam explained a further identity evolution. "When I saw the word 'non-binary/genderqueer' and I read into it and I heard these people speaking, I was like, 'F***, that is me,'" said Sam, who at the time still used male pronouns. "Non-binary/genderqueer is that you do not identify in a gender. You are a mixture of all different things. You are your own special creation. That's how I take it — I am not male or female. I think I float somewhere in between — it's all on the spectrum." Six months later in September 2019, Sam announced a further identity progression. "I've decided I am changing my pronouns to THEY/THEM," Sam wrote on Instagram. "After a lifetime of being at war with my gender I've decided to embrace myself for who I am, inside and out. I'm so excited and privileged to be surrounded by people that support me in this decision but I've been very nervous about announcing this because I care too much about what people think but f*** it! I understand there will be many mistakes and mis gendering but all I ask is you please please try. I hope you can see me like I see myself now. Thank you."

Former "The Bachelor" contestant Demi Burnett added some much needed diversity to Bachelor Nation when she came out in a teaser for the sixth season premiere of "Bachelor in Paradise" in 2019. In the promo for the show, she was heard saying, "I don't care who sees this. I know that I love this girl. I'm just so happy that I found her, and I can definitely picture being with her for the rest of my life." The woman she was talking about, Kristian Haggerty, was someone Demi had been dating off-camera who soon joined her in Mexico — and later became Demi's fiancée (they've since split). Demi made things crystal clear in a tweet that followed the promo: "Spoiler alert: I'm a queer queen," she wrote. In August 2019, Demi explained that she came out to her family, who were supportive, right before she came out to America on television. "There's not been a single gay person in any of my family," she said on the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast. "So coming out to millions all at once? It was overwhelming and it was scary, but my heart knew that that's what it wanted."

NFL free agent Ryan Russell surprised the sports world with his honesty when he publicly came out as bisexual in August 2019. "My truth is that I'm a talented football player, a damn good writer, a loving son, an overbearing brother, a caring friend, a loyal lover and a bisexual man," Ryan wrote in a first-person story for ESPN.

Julianne Hough made headlines when she opened up about her sexual identity in a September 2019 cover story for Women's Health. The former "Dancing With the Stars" pro and "America's Got Talent" judge explained that as she went through a personal evolution following her 2017 marriage to former pro hockey player Brooks Laich (from whom she's since split), "I [told him], 'You know I'm not straight, right?' And he was like, 'I'm sorry what?'" she told the mag. "I was like, 'I'm not. But I choose to be with you.'" Brooks took to social media to praise his wife for her honesty. "So proud of my wife @juleshough for the woman she is, and her courage to share her journey of trials and triumphs!" he captioned a pic of her Women's Health cover.

Amid the wild success of his massive hit song "Old Town Road," rapper Lil Nas X came out as a gay man at the end of Pride Month in June 2019. While posting a link to his new song "C7osure," the rapper tweeted, "Some of y'all already know, some of y'all don't care, some of y'all not [going to f*** with me] no more. But before this month ends I want y'all to listen closely to c7osure." He added a rainbow emoji. In the song, Lil Nas X sings of living a "more authentic life." He later shared a video of his EP's artwork, zooming in on a rainbow projected on a building. "I thought I made it obvious," he later tweeted.

Back in August 2016, the Disney Channel "Shake It Up" alum Bella Thorne used social media to publicly discuss her sexual fluidity. When a fan tweeted Bella to ask if she was bisexual, the teen star replied, "Yes." She followed it up in another tweet that read, "Aww thank you for all the accepting tweets from everyone. I love you guys #pride." Nearly three years later in a July 2019 interview with "Good Morning America," Bella revealed that her sexual identity had evolved. "I'm actually a pansexual, and I didn't know that," she said, explaining that to her, that means "you like what you like… Doesn't have to be a girl, or a guy, or… you know, a he, a she, a this or that. It's literally, you like personality, like you just like a being."

In February 2019, Tony Award winner Ben Platt opened up about his sexual identity publicly in both the video for his song "Ease My Mind" and in an interview with People magazine. "I've been out since I was 12 years old to my family and anyone in my life," the Broadway and "Pitch Perfect" star said. "I've never sort of hidden that or been ashamed by it. It's just part of me."

Josie Totah, who stars on the rebooted Peacock version of "Saved By the Bell" and found fame on the Disney Channel's "Jessie," came out as a transgender female in an essay for Time magazine at 17 in August 2018. She shared her new name and explained that she had always been pegged as "J.J. Totah, gay boy… People kept assuming my identity." But she finally felt ready to speak her truth publicly after making the decision to start hormone replacement therapy at 14, which helped her, slowly but surely, grow more confident. "My pronouns are she, her and hers," she wrote. "I identify as female, specifically as a transgender female. And my name is Josie Totah."

In April 2019, pop icon Ariana Grande seemingly confirmed her bisexuality in her hit song "Monopoly." The Grammy-winning singer declared in her lyrics, "I like women and men," causing many of her fans to assume she was coming out. Following the brouhaha, a fan tweeted, "Ariana ain't gotta label herself, but she said what she said," which led the singer to tweet back, "I haven't before and still don't feel the need to now which is okay."

In May 2019, Nickelodeon actor Michael D. Cohen revealed that he's transgender. The "Henry Danger" star told Time magazine, "I was misgendered at birth. I identify as male, and I am proud that I have had a transgender experience — a transgender journey." Michael actually played female roles in his native Toronto in the '90s then began transitioning in 2000. Explaining why he waited to open up publicly, the actor said, "This crazy backlash and oppression of rights is happening right in front of me. I can't stay silent. The level of — let's be polite — misunderstanding around trans issues is so profound and so destructive. When you disempower one population, you disempower everybody."

"Andi Mack" actor Joshua Rush made history when he played the Disney Channel's first openly gay teen character. In August 2019, the "Where's Waldo" voice actor used social media to publicly come out himself as "an out and proud bisexual man," he tweeted as part of a lengthy thread explaining his decision to speak about his identity.

"Fuller House" star Juan Pablo Di Pace publicly revealed that he's gay during a TEDx Talk in March 2019 given to students at United World College in the Netherlands that made headlines after it was uploaded to YouTube in June 2019. The Argentinean actor, who competed on "Dancing With the Stars" in 2018, explained to People magazine that though he'd been out to friends and family for 20 years, "In the work life, public life, it just felt like I was still omitting a piece of information because there was some kind of shame or fear there, and so, I saw [speaking about it publicly] as an opportunity to also heal myself," he said.

YouTube star and late night television host Lilly Singh confirmed her sexuality in February 2019 when she