(Her rep confirmed the artist still uses she/her pronouns.) "Being a Black queer woman in America, someone who has been in relationships with both men and women, I consider myself to be a free-a** motherf*****," she told Rolling Stone.
And on an April 2022 episode of "Red Table Talk," the singer-actor shared that she's also nonbinary. Janelle Monae came out as pansexual in a May 2018 Rolling Stone cover story. I'm part of the alphabet mafia and proud." "I heard someone call the LGBTQIA+ community 'the alphabet mafia.' … That's it! That's what I'm going with. I'm so grateful." More recently, in a March 2021 interview on the "Joe Rogan Experience" podcast, Demi confirmed they are pansexual. They were so supportive." Demi added, "My mom was the one that I was super-nervous about, but she was like, 'I just want you to be happy.' And that was so beautiful and amazing. After everything was done, I was like, shaking and crying. "It was actually emotional, but really beautiful. "I didn't officially tell my parents that I saw myself ending up possibly with a woman until 2017," they explained. I like the freedom of being able to flirt with whoever I want." In a 2020 interview on "Radio Andy," Demi recalled coming out to their parents three years earlier. In 2018, Demi told InStyle, "I'm very fluid, and I think love is love. Then in 2017, after previously only publicly dating men, they were romantically linked to a woman. In 2021, Demi explained of preferring they/them in a podcast, "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." 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. As we continue to make history, look back on these 20 same-sex kisses that defined the entertainment is sharing all the ways celebrities have told the world about their sexual or gender identities, beginning with this star… A year after Demi Lovato came out as nonbinary in May 2021 and started using they/them pronouns, the pop star updated their pronouns again on their Instagram bio in May 2022, adding she/her alongside they/them. The LGBTQ+ community in the media has come a long way, but there’s still a long way to go for queer romances to be shown as often as their heterosexual counterparts. While the kiss wasn’t romantic-the moment was between young handsome soldier John Powell and his dying friend David Armstrong-it was still a major moment in the LGBTQ+ community as the first kiss between two men on screen.įast forward to 2020, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find a network that doesn’t have a show with a romantic relationship between two characters of the same sex. The first same-sex kiss was in the 1927 silent film, Wings, an Oscar-winning romance war movie, which showed two male soldiers kissing in the trenches of World War I.
Compared to heterosexual kisses in the media, of which there have been hundreds of thousands, same-sex relationships on screen have been historically underrepresented, so we took it upon ourselves to highlight 20 same-sex kisses that have changed TV and movie history for the better. Since then, there have been dozens of gay kisses in TV shows and movies, but there needs to be more. It’s been more than 90 years since the first same-sex kiss was seen on screen.