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JOSIE TOTAH: ON BEING TRANSGENDER

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In a personal essay published on Time, 17-year-quondam Totah, who stars as Michael Patel on Mindy Kaling'south one-act Champions, revealed, "I identify as female, specifically equally a transgender female person" and also announced her new name: Josie.

Totah, a quondam Disney player, shared that throughout her babyhood, "people would but assume I was gay," and when she entered into the entertainment industry, "people kept assuming my identity."

"Numerous reporters take asked me in interviews how information technology feels to be a young gay man. I was even introduced that way earlier receiving an award from an LGBTQ+ rights arrangement. I understand that they didn't actually know better," Totah wrote. "I almost felt like I owed it to everybody to be that gay male child. Only that has never been the way I think of myself."

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JASON MRAZ: ON HIS 'TWO SPIRIT' SEXUALITY

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The "I'm Yours" singer revealed in an interview with Billboard that his wife of three years, Christina Carano, helped him embrace his sexual identity, which he explored during their relationship. "I've had experiences with men, fifty-fifty while I was dating the woman who became my wife," he said.

"It was like, 'Wow, does that mean I am gay?' And my married woman laid it out for me. She calls it 'Ii Spirit,' which is what the Native Americans call someone who can beloved both man and adult female," the Waitress alumnus continued, adding, "I really like that."

BRENDON URIE: ON COMING OUT AS PANSEXUAL

In a new interview with Paper magazine, the Panic! at the Disco frontman came out as pansexual. "I'm married to a adult female and I'm very much in dear with her, just I'one thousand not opposed to a man because to me, I like a person. Yeah, I guess you could qualify me as pansexual because I actually don't care," Urie told the mag.

"If a person is nifty, so a person is cracking. I just similar good people, if your heart'due south in the right identify. I'm definitely attracted to men. It's simply people that I am attracted to," he added.

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AMANDLA STENBERG: ON THE JOY AND RELIEF OF REALIZING SHE'Southward GAY

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The Everything, Everything actress proudly came out as gay in an interview for Wonderland. "I was so overcome with this profound sense of relief when I realized that I'm gay—not bi, not pan, but gay—with a romantic love for women," she explained in the interview.

"I was flooded with a sense of calm and peace because everything that I struggled with or felt discomfort around finally made sense to me, and once those floodgates opened and years of pent up pain and shame were released, I found the freedom to live my all-time life waiting for me just underneath," she added.

RITA ORA: ON BEING BISEXUAL

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In May 2018, Ora posted a heartfelt message on Twitter in which she explained the inspiration backside her new unmarried "Girls," which features Cardi B, Bebe Rexha and Charli XCX.

"Girls was written to stand for my truth and is an authentic business relationship of a very existent and honest experience in my life," Ora tweeted. "I take had romantic relationship with women and men throughout my life and this is my personal journeying."

JANELLE MONÁE: ON 'Beingness A BLACK QUEER WOMAN'

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In the latest consequence of Rolling Rock, the vocaliser opened upwards virtually what it's like "being a black queer woman in America" and why she doesn't identify as bisexual.

"Existence a black queer woman in America…someone who has been in relationships with both men and women — I consider myself to be a free-ass motherf—," she told the magazine. While the singer added that she used to identify as bisexual, she says that changed after reading "about pansexuality."

"I was like, 'Oh, these are things that I identify with also.' I'thousand open to learning more about myself," she added.

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KEHLANI: ON HER 'QUEERNESS'

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Subsequently kissing Demi Lovato onstage at a concert, fans bombarded Kehlani with questions most her sexuality. The singer responded in a series of tweets, writing, "cuz I continue geddin asked… I'thou queer. Not bi, not directly. I'one thousand attracted to women, men, Actually attracted to queer men, not binary people, intersex people, trans people...i felt gay e'er insisted there was all the same a line drawn as to which 'label' of human i was attracted when i actually jus be walking effectually thinking ERRYBODY FINE."

After fans called her out for deleting her first tweet, she explained that she had inadvertently offended people and apologized for information technology, proverb, "i retracted my queer tweet because i am being corrected nigh 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. bespeak is, i love dear, and that love lies in every gender there is."

ANTONI POROWSKI: ON HIS 'FLUID' SEXUALITY

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The Queer Centre food and wine specialist is the May embrace star of Gay Times, and opened up to the magazine almost his demand to rebel against binary labels.

"Some people want to define themselves, and they should as it's part of their identity," he explained. "For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself... So even being called bisexual… I remember in my early on twenties I was like, 'But bisexual means I tin simply like girls and guys, what if I like something else?' Maybe information technology's just my rebellious nature. I'm me, I'm Antoni, and I'm all these things."

ALYSON STONER: ON THE Showtime Fourth dimension SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH A Adult female

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The old Disney Channel and Footstep Up actress shared her struggle to embrace her sexuality in a powerful and moving essay for Teen Vogue virtually how she savage in honey with a adult female for the get-go time in her life.

"In its purest sense, I felt awakened, more compassionate and like my truest self," wrote Stoner of meeting her female trip the light fantastic instructor, whom she developed feelings for. "She strengthened and inspired me, creating a space for me to find myself without judgment. We were an example of truthful love."

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SHANNON PURSER: ON THE 'ANXIETY' OF COMING TO TERMS WITH HER SEXUALITY

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The Stranger Things and Riverdale star admitted to fans that she's had anxiety nigh her sexuality — and shared a few lessons she wishes she had learned growing up. "Getting comfortable with your sexuality is a process. It'south going to be ok. I wish I'd known that sooner," she wrote in a series of tweets. Some other matter I wish I'd known well-nigh sexuality is to take it tedious. It can define yous as much as you want it to. Either way, I know what it's similar to take anxiety about information technology. Peculiarly trying to come up to terms with information technology and my faith. It can be actually scary." She ended her thoughts with a message to all of her followers who might be in a similar position: "But it'due south gonna exist ok. Yous're going to exist ok. No, you're going to be smashing. All that to say, you're not solitary. You're in my prayers and, if yous're the praying kind, delight keep me in yours."

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BARRY MANILOW: ON THE Fearfulness OF DISAPPOINTING FANS

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The "and so private" star opened up to PEOPLE nigh his one-year matrimony to his high school sweetheart — and his somewhat surprise coming out in 2015. Considering his fans, "I thought I would exist disappointing them if they knew I was gay. So I never did anything," he said. Turns out, "When they establish out that [director and husband Garry Kief] and I were together, they were so happy. The reaction was so cute — strangers commenting, 'Cracking for you!' I'yard just so grateful for it."

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DANIEL NEWMAN: ON THE Responsibleness OF SPEAKING Upward IN THE SPOTLIGHT

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"It's fine to keep your private life private if it doesn't affect everyone, but when there's all these kids out there that are notwithstanding needing remodels and needing people to look to to know that they're not alone. Being open up and public about it will assist so many people. It's just so essential," the Walking Dead star told PEOPLE of his conclusion to come up out. "Even though I felt before that I couldn't talk about my private life, I was similar, 'You know what, this is something that anybody should be comfy with, beingness 100 percent themselves and authentic.' "

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AMBER HEARD: ON HOW INADVERTENTLY COMING OUT AFFECTED HER CAREER

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"When I hear someone comment about me coming out, I call up it'south funny considering I was never in," she said at The Economist's Pride & Prejudice Summit in N.Y.C. "I was always out. I was an activist. I went to protests. I refused to non bring my partner at the time, only no one ever asked me about it." Afterward revealing who her partner was to a reporter at a red rug issue, "then I saw I was fastened to a label … I watched as I apace became not extra Bister Heard, just out lesbian Bister Heard. Information technology did impact my career, it was difficult. Information technology was non like shooting fish in a barrel." When some directors questioned whether she could assuredly play a straight woman in a romantic lead role, "I rolled my eyes at that. And I said, 'Watch me do it.' "

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KATY PERRY: ON SUPRESSING HER PAST

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While accepting the National Equality Award at the 2017 Human being Rights Campaign Los Angeles Gala, Perry opened up nigh coming to terms with her queer experiences after existence raised in a religious environment where "homosexuality was synonymous with the word 'anathema.'" "Truth exist told, I did more that!" she said in reference to her 2008 hit "I Kissed a Girl." "Only how was I going to reconcile that with the gospel-singing daughter raised in youth groups that were pro conversion camps? What I did know was that I was curious, and even then I knew that sexuality was not as black and white as this dress. But in 2008, when that song came out, I knew that it started a conversation that a lot of the world seemed curious plenty to sing along to information technology." Perry went on to recount how she went from "praying the gay away at Jesus camps" to meeting "people exterior of [her] chimera" that helped alter her outlook on the rigid sexual codes of her childhood. "These people were nothing like I had been taught to fright. They were the almost free, strong, kind, and inclusive people that I take ever met," she said. "They stimulated my mind, and they filled my heart with joy, and they danced with joy while doing it. These people are really, magic, and they are magic considering they are living their truth."

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SARA RAMIREZ: ON HELPING OTHERS' VOICES Be HEARD

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In a Twitter post, the former Grey's Anatomy actress wrote a message in support of LGBT youth – and, for the first time, came out publicly every bit bisexual. "And so many of our youth experiencing homelessness are youth whose lives touch on many intersections – whether they be gender identity, gender expression, race, class, sexual orientation, faith, citizenship status," she wrote. "And, considering of the intersections that exist in my own life: Woman, multi-racial woman, woman of color, 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 permit our youth's voices to be heard, and that support our youth in owning their ain complex narratives and so that nosotros can show up for them in ways they need u.s.a. to," the 41-yr-old actress said. Ramirez is best known for her role as Dr. Callie Torres, who identified as bisexual on Greyness's Anatomy. She has been married to her husband Ryan Debolt since 2012.

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KRISTEN STEWART: ON HOW DATING GIRLFRIEND ALICIA CARGILE FEELS Dissimilar

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"When I was dating a guy I was hiding everything that I did considering everything personal felt similar it was immediately trivialized, and then I didn't like it. We were turned into these characters and placed into this ridiculous comic book, and I was like, 'That's mine. Yous're making my human relationship something that it's not.' I didn't like that … But and so it changed when I started dating a girl. I was like, 'Actually, to hide this provides the implication that I'yard not down with it or I'm aback of it,' and then I had to change how I approached existence in public. It opened my life upwardly and I'm so much happier."

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EVAN RACHEL Woods: ON THE PUBLIC REACTION TO HER BISEXUALITY

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"I think considering we're normally erased, people but don't have the information. There's and then many negative connotations with that label. I understand the argument about labels and the desire to do away with them altogether. I retrieve that's a corking thought. Only before that nosotros take to give people a chance to place with somebody or a group in some way. That helped me. Information technology's so confusing, specially when there'south not a lot of data out there … Erasure is causing people damage and diminishing self-esteem and putting people in harm'south style. Information technology's a real demand. I want people to know that it's ok, [bisexuality] is valid, and their stories affair."

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AUBREY PLAZA: ON FALLING 'IN Love WITH GIRLS AND GUYS'

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"I know I accept an androgynous thing going on, and there'due south something masculine well-nigh my energy," Plaza said in an interview with the Advocate. "Girls are into me – that's no secret. Hey, I'1000 into them too. I fall in beloved with girls and guys. I can't help it."

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SARAH PAULSON: ON REFUSING TO Characterization HER SEXUAL ORIENTATION

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"I've always walked to the trounce of my ain drum," the People five. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story star tells PEOPLE of her inherent contained nature – particularly when it comes to her dating life. "If my life choices had to be predicated based on what was expected of me from a customs on either side, that'southward going to make me feel really straitjacketed, and I don't want to feel that," Paulson told The New York Times before this month. "What I can say admittedly is that I am in beloved, and that person happens to be Holland Taylor."

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COLTON HAYNES: ON WHETHER OR Non HE'South HAD A 'Cloak-and-dagger GAY Past'

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"Was it a secret? Permit's all just enjoy life amp accept no regrets."

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DEMI LOVATO: ON SEXUAL EXPERIMENTATION

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"I am not confirming, and I'chiliad definitely non denying. All of my songs are based off of personal experiences. I don't call back there's anything wrong with experimentation at all."a

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MILEY CYRUS: ON Being PANSEXUAL

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"I'chiliad very open virtually information technology – I'1000 pansexual. But I'm not in a human relationship. I'm 22, I'm going on dates, just I alter my style every two weeks, let lonely who I'thou with."a

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ANNA PAQUIN: ON EQUAL MARRIAGE RIGHTS (AND HER OWN SEXUALITY)

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"Proud to be a happily married bisexual mother. Marriage is about love, not gender."

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SHAILENE WOODLEY: ON THE Human relationship BETWEEN Dearest AND GENDER

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"I fall in love with homo beings based on who they are, not based on what they do or what sex they are."

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MEGAN Play a joke on: ON SOCIETAL PRESSURES

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"I recollect people are born bisexual and and then make subconscious choices based on the pressures of order. I have no question in my mind nigh existence bisexual."

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BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG: ON THE TABOO OF BEING BISEXUAL

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"It'due south ingrained in our heads that it'south bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing."

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MEGAN MULLALLY: ON HER Understanding OF BISEXUALITY

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"I said that I idea that everybody is innately bisexual. I think there are different levels of awareness attached to that, so I may believe that everybody is innately bisexual, only somebody who is very homophobic may not see that quality in themselves in any way, shape or course."

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KESHA: ON LOVING WHO SHE LOVES

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"I don't love just men. I love people. It'south non about a gender. It'due south just about the spirit that exudes from that other person you're with."

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