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Beyond gay – 40 celebrities you didn’t know were LGBT: from Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris and Will Smith’s kid Willow, to Billie Eilish and Miley Cyrus, and actors on Euphoria and Heartstopper

Billie Eilish, Miley Cyrus and Willow Smith all identify as LGBT. Photo: Getty Images

More and more celebrities have opened up about being attracted to more than one gender.

Some identify as bisexual (Halsey, Cardi B, Kit Connor) or pansexual (Janelle Monáe, Miley Cyrus). Other stars prefer to identify as queer, while still more forgo labels for a more fluid approach.

Read on for a list of 40 stars who identify as labels beyond straight or gay.

1. Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish is open about her sexuality. Photo: @billieeilish/Instagram

Billie Eilish said she likes “boys and girls”.

Eilish nonchalantly discussed her sexuality in a cover story for Variety, which was published in November 2023.

2. Ice Spice

Ice Spice has lyrics about her LGBTQ+ identity in her songs. Photo: @icespice/Instagram

Ice Spice included a nod to queerness in her hit song “Bikini Bottom”.

In her 2022 single, which became a runaway smash on TikTok, Ice Spice included a line about being attracted to both men and women.

“I like n*****s, b****es too,” she raps in the second verse. “Ayo, baddy, what it do?”

3. Phoebe Bridgers

Phoebe Bridgers arrives at the Billboard Women in Music Awards in March 2022, at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles. Photo: Invision/AP

Phoebe Bridgers is bisexual.

As one-third of the supergroup Boygenius, Bridgers opened up to Vogue UK about what it means to be a visibly queer band during a surge of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.

“I’m so proud of our group dynamic, and as a bisexual woman in straight relationships, it feels weird to talk about it so much,” Bridgers said.

4. Aubrey Plaza

Aubrey Plaza arrives at the 29th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in February 2023, at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. Photo: Invision/AP

Aubrey Plaza said she falls in love with both girls and guys.

The White Lotus star spoke about her fluid sexuality during a 2016 interview with The Advocate.

“I know I have an androgynous thing going on, and there’s something masculine about my energy,” Plaza said, when asked if women ever flirt with her. “Girls are into me – that’s no secret. Hey, I’m into them too. I fall in love with girls and guys. I can’t help it.”

5. Joshua Bassett

Joshua Bassett doesn’t label his sexuality. Photo: @joshuatbassett/Instagram

Joshua Bassett said his understanding of sexuality is still evolving.

Bassett is one of several stars who have declined to label their sexuality, but he has confirmed he’s “happy to be a part of the LGBTQ+ community”.

6. Cardi B

Cardi B wears custom Mugler to the red carpet of the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards 2020 in Los Angeles. Photo: Handout

Cardi B opened up about her bisexuality when she was accused of “queerbaiting”.

The Grammy-winning rapper hit back at the accusations after she released a sensual music video with Normani for their 2021 single “Wild Side”.

“I’m married to a man but I have [expressed] soo much about my bisexuality and my experiences [with] girls,” she wrote on X, formerly, Twitter, referring to her husband Offset.

“I don’t like this new ‘queerbaiting’ word,” she continued, arguing that it pressures celebrities to show proof of their sexual experiences if they express queer themes in their art.

7. Janelle Monáe

Janelle Monáe arrives at the Oscars in March 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Photo: Invision/AP

Janelle Monáe first identified as bisexual, but has since come out as pansexual.

“Being a queer Black woman in America, someone who has been in relationships with both men and women – I consider myself to be a free-a** motherfucker,” Monáe said in a 2018 interview with Rolling Stone.

Monáe, who also identifies as non-binary and uses both she/her and they/them pronouns, frequently explores queer themes in her music, as with her 2018 single “Pynk”.

8. Reneé Rapp

Reneé Rapp posted about her song, “Snow Angel”, on Instagram. Photo: @reneerapp/Instagram

Reneé Rapp is bisexual.

Rapp starred as Leighton on HBO’s Sex Lives of College Girls, a character who comes out as gay in the show’s second season.

“I’m a white, bisexual woman, so there’s a sense in which my queerness is very palatable,” Rapp told Vogue. “Truly, though, so much of Leighton is me, and so much of Leighton has helped me understand myself.

9. Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga arrives at the Oscars in March 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Photo: Invision/AP

Lady Gaga has been openly bisexual since 2009.

Gaga famously came out as bisexual during a 2009 interview with Barbara Walters. The pop star and award-winning actress has written multiple songs expressing her attraction to women, and previously said anyone claiming “she’s bisexual for marketing” is lying.

10. Kit Connor

Kit Connor got famous on Heartstopper. Photo: @felicitykay/Instagram
Kit Connor came out as bisexual after saying he’s “not too big on labels.”

Connor, who stars as the bisexual character Nick Nelson on Netflix’s Heartstopper, addressed the speculation about his sexuality after fans of the show accused the actor of queerbaiting, he clarified his sexuality in a since-deleted post on X.

“I’m bi,” he wrote. “Congrats for forcing an 18-year-old to out himself. I think some of you missed the point of the show. Bye.”

11. Dove Cameron

US actress Dove Cameron attends the 2022 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, in May 2022. Photo: AFP

Dove Cameron said she’s “super queer”.

In a 2021 interview with the Gay Times, she said it felt important to speak candidly with fans about her sexuality.

“I went on Instagram Live and said, ‘Guys, I really needed to explain something to you. Maybe I haven’t said it, but I’m super queer,” she continued. “This is something I want to represent through my music because it’s who I am.”

Cameron has released songs with she/her pronouns and queer storylines, including the 2022 hit “Boyfriend”.

12. Lili Reinhart

Lili Reinhart. Photo: @lilireinhart/Instagram

Lili Reinhart came out as bisexual on Instagram.

“Although I’ve never announced it publicly before, I am a proud bisexual woman,” Reinhart wrote on her Instagram Stories.

Along with the announcement, she shared a poster for an “LGBTQ+ for #BlackLivesMatter” protest in West Hollywood, California, and encouraged her fans to come along.

She added, “And I will be joining this protest today. Come join.”

13. Demi Lovato

Demi Lovato is pansexual and non-binary. Photo: @ddlovato/Instagram

Demi Lovato is pansexual.

Lovato, who initially came out as bisexual to her parents in 2017, said she now identifies as pansexual during an episode of Joe Rogan’s podcast.

Lovato, who identifies as non-binary, has also said she feels “too queer” to be involved with cisgender men going forward.

Lovato adopted they/them pronouns before reverting back to she/her in 2023, saying that the former was “exhausting”.

14. Tyler, the Creator

Tyler, The Creator. Photo: Handout

Tyler, the Creator has songs about relationships with men and women. He has generally declined to define his sexuality, but the rapper has written lyrics about his attraction to both.

Throughout his Grammy-winning album Igor, for example, Tyler grapples with the end of a same-sex relationship.

“I like girls,” he told GQ in 2019. “I just end up f***ing their brother every time.”

15. Barbie Ferreira

Barbie Ferreira in season two of Euphoria. Photo: HBO Go

Barbie Ferreira identifies as queer.

Ferreira, who is currently dating musician Elle Puckett, spoke to Out magazine about her sexuality in 2019.

“In my private life, it’s been going on for a long time. I obviously don’t really identify as a straight woman ever in my life, but I feel like now I’m really in my queerness,” she said. “I’m in LA living my L Word life. Isn’t it amazing?”

16. Frank Ocean

Frank Ocean at the Met Gala 2019. Photo: @TeamFrankDaily/X

Frank Ocean’s song “Chanel” has been widely interpreted as a “bisexual anthem”.

Ocean famously shared an open letter about his sexuality mere days before his debut album, 2012’s Channel Orange, was set to drop.

“Four summers ago, I met somebody. I was 19 years old. He was too,” he wrote on Tumblr. “By the time I realised I was in love, it was malignant. It was hopeless. There was no escaping, no negotiating with the feeling. No choice. It was my first love. It changed my life.”

That same year, Ocean declined to label himself bisexual in an interview with GQ.

17. Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus. Photo: @mileycyrus/Instagram

“I’m very open about it – I’m pansexual,” Miley Cyrus told Elle magazine in 2015.

In subsequent years, Cyrus has spoken openly about her fluid approach to gender and sexuality.

“A big part of my pride and my identity is being a queer person,” she told Vanity Fair. “What I preach is: people fall in love with people, not gender, not looks, not whatever. What I’m in love with exists on almost a spiritual level. It has nothing to do with sexuality.”

18. Anitta

Anitta arrives at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards held at the Crypto.com Arena in February 2023, in Los Angeles. Photo: Los Angeles Times/TNS

Anitta publicly came out as bisexual in her 2018 Netflix docuseries

In a 2022 interview with the Los Angeles Times, the Brazilian hitmaker said she came out to her family long before the docuseries premiered.

I kissed a girl before I kissed a guy,” she said. “I only told my mum after I kissed a guy, because … I didn’t know how to feel. I thought there was something wrong with me for wanting to kiss a guy and a girl. But my mum just said, ‘So what?’”

19. Beabadoobee

Filipino-British singer-songwriter Beabadoobee. Photo: @radvxz/Instagram

Beabadoobee is bisexual.

Bea Kristi, known professionally as Beabadoobee, is a rising star in the music industry; she’s label mates with The 1975 and an opener for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.

She’s also known for writing tender love songs with both he/him and she/her pronouns, from her breakout hit “Coffee” to the queer fan-favourite “She Plays Bass”.

“I did have feelings for girls, but I just told everyone I was gay because no boy liked me ever,” she told The New York Times. “Honestly, I was bisexual.”

20. Megan Fox

Megan Fox attends the Audacy Beach Festival at Fort Lauderdale Beach in December 2022, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Photo: Getty Images for Audacy

Megan Fox publicly came out as bisexual in 2009.

The Jennifer’s Body actress first opened up about her sexuality in 2008, when she revealed that she’d had a crush on a woman.

“I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes,” she told GQ. “I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl.”

21. Brendon Urie

Brendon Urie performs with his band Panic! at the Disco in concert at Emo’s in 2014, in Austin, Texas, US. Photo: NurPhoto/Corbis

Brendon Urie said being married to a woman doesn’t negate his pansexuality.

The Panic! at the Disco frontman opened up about his sexuality in a 2018 interview with Paper magazine.

“I’m married to a woman and I’m very much in love with her, but I’m not opposed to a man because to me, I like a person,” he said. “Yeah, I guess you could qualify me as pansexual, because I really don’t care. If a person is great, then a person is great. I just like good people, if your heart’s in the right place. I’m definitely attracted to men. It’s just people that I am attracted to.”

22. Amandla Stenberg

US actress Amandla Stenberg arrives for the premiere of Dear Evan Hansen at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, in September 2021. Photo: AFP

Amandla Stenberg identifies as non-binary and pansexual.

“Gender and sexuality are so fluid. It’s OK to change your mind a million times and figure out what works for you. It’s OK to take your time,” Stenberg told Seventeen magazine in 2018.

“It was easier for me to say ‘I’m bi’ or “I’m pan’ as I was figuring it out. But I came to a place where I felt really proud of my sexuality, and I decided I wanted to share that pride.”

23. Halsey

Halsey in a casual look at Paris Fashion Week. Photo: @iamhalsey/Instagram

Halsey actively fights against bisexual erasure.

“I’m a young, bisexual woman, and I’ve spent a large part of my life trying to validate myself – to my friends, to my family, to myself – trying to prove that who I love and how I feel is not a phase; it’s not part of some confusion that’s going to change or could be manipulated,” the Grammy-nominated singer said while accepting the Glaad award for outstanding musician in 2018.

24. Willow Smith

US singer Willow Smith attends the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party following the 94th Oscars at the The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California, in March 2022. Photo: AFP

Willow Smith opened up on Red Table Talk about being attracted to both men and women.

When asked about potentially being part of a “throuple” (a relationship between three people), Smith said she could see herself being with a man and woman at the same time.

“I love men and women equally and so I would definitely want one man, one woman,” Smith said on her mum’s show Red Table Talk. “I feel like I could be polyfidelitous with those two people.”

25. Bella Thorne

Actress Bella Thorne arrives at The Weinstein Company and Netflix Golden Globe after party in Beverly Hills, California, in January 2016. Photo: Reuters

Bella Thorne originally identified as bisexual, but later realised she’s pansexual.

Thorne simply posted “yes” to a fan asking whether she’s bisexual on X in 2016.

While promoting her new book in 2019, Thorne said she’s “actually a pansexual” during an interview on Good Morning America.

26. Tessa Thompson

US actress Tessa Thompson attends the Men in Black: International premiere at AMC Lincoln Square in June 2019, in New York City. Photo: AFP

Tessa Thompson opened up about her fluid sexuality in a 2018 interview, telling Net-a-Porter that she’s attracted to both men and women.

“I can take things for granted because of my family – it’s so free and you can be anything that you want to be,” Thompson said. “I’m attracted to men and also to women. If I bring a woman home, [or] a man, we don’t even have to have the discussion.”

27. Kristen Stewart

US actor Kristen Stewart poses at the photocall for the Berlinale 2023 international jury during the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Germany, in February 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE

Kristen Stewart has dated both men and women.

“You’re not confused if you’re bisexual,” she told The Guardian in 2017. “It’s not confusing at all. For me, it’s quite the opposite.”

28. Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore has spoken about being attracted to women. Photo: Getty Images

Drew Barrymore came out in 2003 and continues to keep her romantic life private.

In an interview in Contact Magazine, she said, “Do I like women sexually? Yeah, I do. Totally. I have always considered myself bisexual.

“I love a woman’s body. I think a woman and a woman together are beautiful, just as a man and a woman together are beautiful.”

29. Michelle Rodriguez

Actress Michelle Rodriguez, one of the stars of the action surfing film Blue Crush, poses at the film’s premiere in 2002, in Los Angeles. Photo: Reuters

Michelle Rodriguez said she’s sexually attracted to both men and women.

“I’ve gone both ways. I do as I please,” the Fast and Furious and Avatar star said to Entertainment Weekly. “I am too f***ing curious to sit here and not try when I can. Men are intriguing. So are chicks.”

When asked later about the decision to open up about her love life, Rodriquez told Latina magazine: “I’m getting older. Eventually it’s going to wrinkle up and I’m not going to be able to use it. I wanted to be honest about who I am and see what happens.”

30. Kesha

Kesha attends the 2015 Delete Blood Cancer gala in New York, in April 2015. Photo: Invision/AP

Kesha said gender doesn’t play a role in who she’s attracted to.

She prefers not to use labels, but told Seventeen magazine, “I don’t love just men. I love people. It’s not about a gender. It’s just about the spirit that exudes from that other person you’re with.”

31. Black Eyed Peas’ Fergie

Fergie came out as bi in the noughties. Photo: Instagram

Black Eyed Peas frontwoman Fergie came out as bisexual in 2009.

When The Advocate asked the Black Eyed Peas frontwoman about her bisexual past and why it wasn’t a “trendy” thing for her, she said, “The funny thing is that I was very open and honest about that from the very beginning, and everyone was acting like it was some new trend. Go back four or five years, people, and you’ll see the same answer.”

32. Alan Cumming

Actor Alan Cumming arrives at the New York premiere of Bridget Jones’s Diary in 2001. Photo: AFP Photo

Actor Alan Cumming is so tired of discussing his bisexuality in interviews that he created a FAQ answer on his website.

In 2015, Cumming told The Advocate, “My sexuality has never been black and white; it’s always been grey. I’m with a man, but I haven’t closed myself off to the fact that I’m still sexually attracted to women.”

33. Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong

Billie Joe Armstrong performs American Idiot with his group Green Day at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards in 2005, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Photo: AP Photo

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong spoke about being bisexual in a 1995 interview.

“I think I’ve always been bisexual,” Armstrong said to The Advocate.

“I mean, it’s something that I’ve always been interested in. I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t.’ They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.”

34. Cara Delevingne

Cara Delevingne attends the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza in February 2023, in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Getty Images

Cara Delevingne has spoken about the stigma surrounding bisexuality.

After talking openly about being with men and women, the Suicide Squad star expressed frustration about the way some people misidentify her as gay.

“A lot of the friends I have who are straight have such an old way of thinking,” Delevingne said in an interview for Glamour. “It’s ‘So you’re just gay, right?’ [They] don’t understand it. [If] I’m like, ‘Oh, I really like this guy,’ [they’re like], ‘But you’re gay.’ I’m like, ‘No, you’re so annoying!’”

35. Sia

Sia is open about being queer. Photo: @adam_siafan/Instagram

Sia said she has dated both men and women.

She came out as queer in August 2013, posting on X, “I’m queer. I don’t really identify as a lesbian because I’ve dated predominantly men. But I’ve certainly dated women.”

36. Sara Ramirez

Sarah Ramirez. Photo: @instylegermany/Instagram

Sara Ramirez identifies as queer and non-binary.

The Grey’s Anatomy star came out as queer during a speech at True Colors Fund’s 40 to None summit.

“Because of the intersections that exist in my own life: woman, multiracial woman, woman of colour, queer, bisexual, Mexican-Irish American, immigrant, and raised by families heavily rooted in Catholicism on both my Mexican and Irish sides, I am deeply invested in projects that allow our youth’s voices to be heard.”

Ramirez has since come out as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.

37. Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho attends the Head over Heels Play opening at Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena, California, in November 2021. Photo: Shutterstock

Comedian Margaret Cho came out as bisexual early in her career and continues to advocate for bi visibility.

Cho said in a 2018 interview with Huffington Post that she’s not sure if bisexual is necessarily the right word, “because that indicates that there’s only two genders, and I don’t believe that”.

38. Jason Mraz

Two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Jason Mraz at his San Diego County studio in May 2023. Photo: The San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS

Singer and songwriter Jason Mraz said “two spirit” is the best identifier for his sexuality.

After penning a poem for Billboard Magazine during 2018’s Pride Month, Mraz got some attention for the line: “I am bi your side.”

“Honestly, I didn’t realise it was going to be so telling,” Mraz told Billboard. “But I’ve had experiences with men, even while I was dating the woman who became my wife. It was like, ‘Wow, does that mean I am gay?’ And my wife laid it out for me. She calls it ‘two spirit’, which is what the Native Americans call someone who can love both man and woman. I really like that.”

39. Paris Jackson

Paris Jackson arrives for the Stella McCartney’s spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear fashion show presented in Paris, in October 2021. Photo: Invision/AP

Paris Jackson prefers not to label herself, and said she came out when she was 14.

Jackson identifies as part of the LGBTQ+ community and has mentioned crushing on girls in magazine interviews, but she prefers not to be called bisexual.

“I’m not bisexual,” Jackson wrote on an Instagram post. “I just love people for people. I don’t label myself so please don’t label me. Thank you!”

40. Amber Heard

American actress Amber Heard, former wife of actor Johnny Depp, gestures as she gives a statement after the end of the trial outside the High Court in London, in July 2020. Photo: AP Photo

Amber Heard came out as bisexual years ago, but has since stated she prefers not to be labelled.

It was when Heard decided to “own it” back in 2010 that the bisexual label first came into play, though she’s since decided against using the term.

“It’s limiting, that LGBTQ+ thing,” she told Allure. “It served a function as an umbrella for marginalised people to whom rights were being denied, but it loses its efficacy because of the nuanced nature of humanity [ …] I don’t care how many letters you add. At some point, it’s going to spell ‘we are human.’”

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  • More celebrities are opening up about being attracted to more than one gender, identifying as bisexual, pansexual, queer, fluid – or forgoing labels entirely
  • Cardi B spoke against ‘queerbaiting’ accusations, Eilish has come out multiple times, while Ice Spice raps about her identity and Alan Cummings has a FAQ answer on his website about the topic