Hollywood’s biggest stars do not hold back when it comes to having discussions about their sexuality. Demi Lovato, for one, came out as non-binary in May 2021, months after opening up about how their past relationships with men helped them to realize that they’re “really queer.”

“When I started getting older, I started realizing how queer I really am,” Demi told Glamour in March 2021, referencing her failed engagement to Max Ehrich. “This past year I was engaged to a man, and when it didn’t work, I was like, ‘This is a huge sign.’ I thought I was going to spend my life with someone. Now that I wasn’t going to, I felt this sense of relief that I could live my truth.”

The former Disney Channel star noted that they started “appreciating the friendships” of men more than “the romance.” When she “hooked up with a girl” Demi realized that they “felt better” and noted, “It felt right.”

“My heart is pretty open,” Demi said about her relationships going forward. “I’m very much listening to my intuition, and that’s not to say my boundaries or my guard is up. It’s just saying my ears are perked a little higher and my eyes are open a little wider.”

Similarly, Riverdale actress Lili Reinhart has shared insight into her sexuality via social media. In June 2020, she came out as a “proud bisexual woman” in an Instagram Stories post.

“I thought: ‘Do I like girls? I don’t know,’” she told the Los Angeles Times in August 2020. “As I’ve gotten older, the answer has become ‘Yes. Clearly, I do.’ … I think I just felt at this point in time: Why not? If suddenly I started dating a girl publicly, I didn’t want people to be, like, what the …? Not that I would even owe anyone an explanation. Because I don’t.”

She’s since shared support for members of the bisexual community on Twitter. “I am BI AND PROUD,” she wrote in a March 2021 tweet. “It’s all too common for men to bully their bi/pan girlfriends. They can accept when a woman wants another man, but they can’t respect when a woman wants another woman. F–k that toxic shit.”

These two stars aren’t the only ones who’ve been super-open over the years. Tons of stars have gotten real about their sexuality throughout their time in the spotlight. Scroll through our gallery to read celebrities’ most powerful quotes. 

Keke Palmer

Keke Palmer has been open about her sexuality over the years, with her 2015 music video for “I Don’t Belong to You,” showcasing Keke exploring both sides of her sexuality.
“The video was to represent the young woman today — it’s not the traditional woman anymore — and not the specifics of ‘Am I gay? Am I straight? Am I bi?’” the actress told People at the time. “I’m making the rules for myself, and I don’t have to be stuck down to one label.”

“I don’t feel the need to define nothin’ to nobody, because I’m always changing,” she added. “Why say that I’m this or that when I might not be tomorrow? I’m gonna follow my own feelings and my own heart.”

While appearing on The Best Podcast Ever with Raven and Miranda in July 2023, Keke told host Raven-Symone about how she broached the conversation with her parents while growing up.

“Sexuality and stuff like that, that was not even — my parents never even cared about something like that or talked about that,” the Nickelodeon alum revealed. “And I know that by the time they saw how free of a spirit I was, and whoever I wanted to date, they were like, ‘Whoever cares.’ It was never anything that was in their mind.”

Harry Styles

He opened up about his sexuality in a 2017 interview with Dan Wooten. “Being in a creative field, it’s important to be ­progressive. People doing stuff like that is great. It’s weird for me — everyone should just be who they want to be,” he said. “It’s tough to justify somebody having to answer to someone else about stuff like that… I’ve never felt the need to really. No. I don’t feel like it’s something I’ve ever felt like I have to explain about myself.”

When asked if he defined himself as straight, Harry told The Guardian in December 2019, “Who cares?” He added, “It’s not like I’m sitting on an answer and protecting it and holding it back. It’s not a case of: I’m not telling you because I don’t want to tell you. It’s not: Oh, this is mine and it’s not yours.”

Years later, while chatting with Rolling Stone in August 2022, he added that “everyone, including myself, has your own journey with figuring out sexuality and getting more comfortable with it.” Harry continued, “Sometimes people say, ‘You’ve only publicly been with women,’ and I don’t think I’ve publicly been with anyone. If someone takes a picture of you with someone, it doesn’t mean you’re choosing to have a public relationship or something.”

Mae Whitman

“Just taking a moment to say I am SO proud to be even a small part of a show like The Owl House. 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 sososo important. Keep it up world,” the actress shared via Twitter in August 2021. 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.”

Thomas Doherty

“I have always seen sexuality as a spectrum. But playing Max, a pansexual character, was incredibly liberating. It was very educational, and it definitely made me challenge my own preconceived notions, my indoctrination, of ‘This is who you love, this is what you do, everything else is wrong,’” the Disney alum told Variety in August 2021. “I think it is very limiting, and I think as I get older and experience life a little bit more, you constantly evolve and you’re constantly growing. I feel like labels limit you. They’re almost walls to your growth.”

Madison Bailey

“I’ve been out since like 2017,” the Outer Banks star told Flaunt Magazine in August 2021. “And then I got all of these followers and I was like, ‘Maybe I should like re-come out.’ … Nobody would get on my page and be like, ‘She’s queer.’ And I want people to know that I’m queer, because I want to attract the audience that I want to attract. I want to find my people, so they need to know who I am so they can find me.”

Previously, the actress talked to Entertainment Tonight in June 2020 about being pansexual.

“[Being pansexual is] basically just loving people for people, regardless of gender or any type of sexuality or any type of anything,” she said. “I dated a girl when I was 18 and was like, ‘Yay, I’m gay … But I still like boys, so I guess I’m bi.’ I went a couple of months feeling like I was bi, then I worked with a trans boy on a show and we dated and I was like, ‘What does that make me? I guess I’m pan.’ I just went with the flow.”

Tommy Dorfman

The 13 Reasons Why star reintroduced herself as a trans woman in a July 2021 interview with TIME.

“For a year now, I have been privately identifying and living as a woman — a trans woman,” she told the magazine. “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.”

Jack Dylan Grazer

The Shazam! star shared that he identifies as bisexual in a July 2021 Instagram livestream. The actor also changed his preferred pronouns on Instagram to he/they, but they’ve since been removed.

Auli’i Cravalho

“I came out on TikTok,” the Moana star told Entertainment Weekly in June 2021. The actress revealed that she was bisexual in a now-viral video from April 2020.

“The funniest part to me was that I had girlfriends in high school,” she told the magazine. “I think girls are great, but I wouldn’t think that it was necessary to come out … The fans are only too happy to accept another gay.”

David Archuleta

In an Instagram post shared in June 2021, the singer came out and revealed that he doesn’t have a specific label for his sexuality.

“I’ve been open to myself and my close family for some years now that I am not sure about my own sexuality,” the American Idol alum shared. “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.”

He added, “For people who don’t really understand how feelings outside of just being heterosexual can be possible and ok I just plead that you be more understanding to people who experience and struggle with things that you may not experience and understand yourself.”

Larry Saperstein

The High School Musical: The Musical: The Series star came out as bisexual in a TikTok post. “Plays a character with a girlfriend on TV is bi irl,” the actor wrote in June 2021. “Is it really that unexpected tho #pride.”

Bebe Rexha

“What I believe about sexuality is this: it’s a scale,” she told Gay Times in May 2021. “Have I gone out with girls before? Yes. Have I dated girls? Yes, I have. And famous ones, but I’m not naming them. Even though people would be living for it – no!”

She continued, “Have I fallen in love with a girl before? Yes … But right now, I’m in a relationship with a guy,” noting that she dates “whoever inspires me.”

Bella Thorne

“I’m actually a pansexual, and I didn’t know that,” Bella explained on Good Morning America in July 2019. “Doesn’t have to be a girl, or a guy, or — you know, a he, a she, a they, a this, or that. It’s literally, you like personality, like you just like a being.”

She further discussed being pansexual during an interview with Elite Daily in April 2021. “I think that in general, educating the world more is just so important,” she told the website. “Luckily I have such a wide fanbase that I can really speak to in America and have them see me, understand me and not just write off pansexual or any type of sexuality as something they can’t understand.”

The Disney Channel alum continued, “Because I’m in the public eye every day, people are sort of forced to understand it because it’s right there. I think that hopefully that’s changed a lot of people’s minds.”

Demi Lovato

“I’m so fluid now, and a part of the reason why I am so fluid is because I was, like, super-closeted off,” the singer said during a March 2021 appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, noting that they like “anything, really.”

That same month, during a Paper Magazine interview, Demi added, “The queer label is fine because to me it’s just this blanket statement of being different,” they explained. “That’s what I can commit to. I feel like I’m too fluid to commit to a label.”

Previously, Demi said they don’t care for labeling their sexuality. “It’s something I don’t think needs to have a label: As humans, it’s just about a connection with someone,” they told People in 2016.

Halsey

In March 2021, the musician thanked fans in an Instagram Stories post after changing their pronouns to she/they by updating their Instagram bio. Previously, the singer came out as bisexual and has been open about their sexuality throughout their career.

JoJo Siwa

“Personally, I have never, ever, ever been this happy before and it feels really awesome. I’ve been happy for a little bit now. It’s just so, so, so awesome,” the Nickelodeon star said when she came out in January 2021. As for labeling herself, JoJo explained that she doesn’t “really know this answer.”

“I think humans are awesome, I think humans are really incredible people,” she said in an Instagram Live. “Right now, I’m super-duper happy and I want to share everything with the world, but I also want to keep things in my life private until they are ready to be public. Right now what matters is that you guys know that no matter who you love, that it’s OK.”

Tana Mongeau

“I never thought I’d be brave enough to publicly share my sexuality in the way I do now … I still struggle with it — I hate the boxes, I hate people telling me I’m straight or discrediting my relationship if I’m with a girl … But I’m proud to be not only a member but an ally of the LGBTQIA+ community, and I’m proud to say I will live my life based on loving people not for their gender but their soul,” she wrote on Instagram in June 2020. “Some people call that pansexuality, everyone calls me bi, I personally don’t find a need to label it all. Love and sexuality is genderless to me and I’m so lucky to have this platform to speak openly about that.”

Lachlan Watson

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star opened up about their sexuality during a July 2020 interview with Vogue U.K.

“The idea that women are the only ones who are expected to conform to this beautiful ideal is silly. If you are a woman in any shape or form, and you walk out of the house without makeup, I’ve always thought it was strange that it’s still considered a revolution, as if you’re revolting against the idea of being a woman,” Lachlan explained. “It’s backward that feminine-leaning people are caged within this idea of having to be pretty. Not only do femme people not have to be pretty, masculine people have always been pretty and are more than welcome to be such.”

Lauren Jauregui

In honor of Pride Month, the Fifth Harmony singer came out as pansexual. She captioned a shot on Instagram in June 2020, “A proud ass pansexual cancerian queen.”

Cara Delevingne

“The thing is with me, I change a lot. I feel different all the time. Some days, I feel more womanly. Some days, I feel more like a man,” the model explained in an interview with Variety in June 2020. “I always will remain, I think, pansexual. 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.”

Sam Smith

Sam opened up about their sexuality in a since-deleted Instagram post from September 2019.

“I’ve decided I am changing my pronouns to THEY/THEM. 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–k it,” they wrote at the time. “I understand there will be many mistakes and miss-gendering but all I ask is you please please try. I hope you can see me like I see myself now. Thank you. P.S. I am at no stage just yet to eloquently speak at length about what it means to be non-binary, but I can’t wait for the day that I am.”

Miley Cyrus

The Disney Channel alum opened up to Vanity Fair in March 2019 about her sexuality.

“The reason that people get married sometimes can be old-fashioned, but I think the reason we got married isn’t old-fashioned — I actually think it’s kind of New Age. We’re redefining, to be f–king frank, what it looks like for someone that’s a queer person like myself to be in a hetero relationship,” the Hannah Montana star said. “A big part of my pride and my identity is being a queer person. 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. Relationships and partnerships in a new generation — I don’t think they have so much to do with sexuality or gender.”