Celebrating 10 Out and Proud Celebs for Bisexuality Visibility Month

Anitta

The Brazilian pop star came out as bisexual through her Netflix docu-series, "Vai Anitta." She goes hard representing her hometown, her country, and the young people who look up to her. Anitta's been vocal about knowing the influence an openly queer celebrity can have to help reflect reality and offer support to queer people, especially when the government is pushing for stricter laws that limit freedoms. Her recent single with fellow queer musician, Måneskin's Victoria De Angelis (titled "GET UP B*TCH! Shake ya ass"), is a very sexy, very queer summer song, with a very sapphic music video to match. Anitta also keeps it real when responding to comments about who she's dated before: "Some people say I am 'fake bi' because I never dated a girl like a long-term relationship," she told InStyle. "But come on, even my relationships with guys cannot last more than three months." A relatable queen!

Lil Nas X

Outspoken, wildly talented, groundbreaking artist Lil Nas X has inspired many scandalous responses to the daring creative choices in his music –and his playful attitude to marketing it. He's become famous as an openly gay rapper with gorgeous, also very openly gay visuals for each of his projects, but queerness (and the whirlwind of growing up in the limelight of superstardom) is about self-expression and exploration! Last year, Lil Nas X tweeted "be fr would y'all be mad at me if i thought i was a little bisexual...." He's well known for trolling his fans (and enemies) online so we'd understand if anyone decided to take this revelation with a pinch of salt. But the artist came back to follow-up that tweet, saying "that was my last time coming out the closet i promise," so we're taking him at his word, and celebrating another openly bisexual celeb to proudly support!

Dove Cameron

"I think there's this narrative where if you are a queer person and you speak about your identity," Dove Cameron told E! News in 2022, "it's as though you've been sitting on a secret your whole life and it's this big revelation. Where in my experience, it wasn't a revelation. I always knew who I was. Ever since I can remember, I knew I was queer." The former Disney star, "Schmigadoon!" performer, and pop music powerhouse first came out publicly in 2020 when she went on Instagram Live to confirm to her fans that she is "super queer." As a Gay Times cover star in 2021, she then clarified that she's bisexual. Her 2022 song "Boyfriend" (and its sexy music video) is a powerful, playful song that cleverly seduces its audience: a woman whose boyfriend doesn't deserve her; a woman who Dove Cameron wants to treat right. Cameron has shared that the song was inspired by a moment in her life when she felt that exact emotion about a girl she'd met –complaining that she "could be a better boyfriend than him", quickly realizing that would be an excellent hook for a song. And she delivered a sultry sapphic anthem!!

Victoria Monét

The "On My Mama" singer and songwriter of more hits than we can count has been openly bisexual in interviews and her interactions online, while also dropping some of the hottest songs about it. She sings "I swerve both ways, dichotomy / I like women and men" on the Ariana Grande duet "Monopoly"; On "Smoke," Monét sings "It's a bisexual blunt, it can go both ways." The "Touch Me" remix, which was about and features Monét's ex, queer musician Kehlani, has the exes singing about the intimacy of sapphic sex and the importance of keeping your nails short (to quote Monét, who spoke to Variety about this: "so that you can really use your fingers to the best of your abilities.") If you watched any of her Coachella performances this year, you'll know that Monét had the audience (at the festival, and watching online!) fanning themselves at the sensual, sexual, undeniably sapphic choreography she incorporated into her shows. We love a badass, boldly queer icon!

Nico Tortorella

This "Younger" and "City on Fire" star is an actor, children's' book author, musician, and podcaster who uses they/them pronouns. Nico Tortorella is bisexual, demisexual, and gender fluid, and they've been open about sharing their queer parenting style and sweet family to represent the endless possibility for what families can look like –and what love can look like, by simply being true to yourself. This quote about why they choose to identify publicly as bisexual hits particularly hard knowing the history of bi erasure in our society: "I've been so hesitant about using the word for so long," Tortorella told Vulture in 2016, "because it does have a negative connotation in our generation. People fought for so long for that 'B' in LGBT, and I refuse to be the person that's going to throw that away because I think I have a more colorful word."