Though "I've always been very public with everybody I've personally interacted with," Kal explained, his partner and family are very private people, so he wanted to respect that. The "House," "Designated Survivor" and "Harold and Kumar" franchise star told the magazine he and Josh met in Washington, D.C., during the period he took a break from Hollywood to work for then-President Barack Obama's administration. 2 - when he revealed that he's engaged to his boyfriend of 11 years, Josh. 31, 2021, while promoting his book "You Can't Be Serious" - which comes out on Nov. Keep reading for more stars who've identified as members of the LGBTQIA+ community…Īctor Kal Penn publicly came out as a gay man in an interview with People magazine that hit the internet on Oct. But I just see everything beyond the binary." I am everything, but I will always, always stand with women. I feel like God is so much bigger than the 'he' or the 'she.' If I am from God, I am everything. "I'm nonbinary, so I just don't see myself as a woman, solely," she explained on "Red Table Talk." "I feel all of my energy. Nearly four years later, she opened up about her evolving gender identity. I'm open to learning more about who I am," she explained. "Later I read about pansexuality and was like, 'Oh, these are things that I identify with too.
Janelle initially described herself as bisexual, the magazine reported, but later decided she preferred the term pansexual, which connotes an attraction to someone regardless of their gender identity. (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. 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.