I felt so wrapped up and scared."
She ended up calling a friend, who supported her in the decision.
So,SNLcast memberBowen Yangintroduced Renee to the world as “our little lesbian intern.”
“I thought I was searching for a Disney Prince… but maybe what I really needed all this time was a Disney Princess."
And it was an absolute no.”
“Love is love.
It’s strange.”
I had never heard the word pansexual before," she said.
Even after filming the scene, it wasn’t an immediate realization for Emily.
“I said to Dan, ‘This is so weird.
And since then, it really doesnt matter to me.
I have to like the person.
Im really attracted to a persons vibe.’
He was like, ‘Youre pansexual.
Dont you watch our show?'”
“It just blew my mind that she was there.
I can feel myself getting emotional just thinking about it.
We were holding hands, and she said to me, ‘I dont really know why Im here.
Im just here.’
I told her, ‘Honey, you dont need to know.
Be proud of who you are.'”
“I had never met another queer Rwandan person before.
I thought I was the only one in the world,” he concluded.
I never really did.
I realized thats because I dont fit into either."
“I was with my mum last night, and she said something so beautiful.
Because my mum could see it, and that it was a torture going on in my mind.
“It was the first time many members of my own family were hearing it.
At the time, I didnt see it as brave.
8.During aOne Stride, Many Journeysvideo, Laverne Cox said she had two coming outs.
“I came out to my mom first as gay my sophomore year, and she freaked out.
It was just she didnt understand, and she had issues with the pronoun thing and the name change.
It was just like, ‘Girl, you gotta get this together.’
And eventually, we did.
I wanna be stealth.
I want to blend in.
Im a woman.’
I think girls are great, but I wouldn’t think that it was necessary to come out.”
10.Jesse Tyler Ferguson toldPeoplethat he was caught stealing gay porn as a freshman in high school.
I find it funny now, but at the time, it was incredibly traumatizing.”
“Ironically, my father still had a hard time catching up,” he continued.
“I snuck some straight porn in there, too, so that threw him off just enough.
I always hated the word bisexual because thats even putting me in a box.
I dont ever think about someone being a boy or someone being a girl.
I grew up in a very religious Southern family.
The universe has always given me the power to know Ill be okay.
My mom started crying.
She never understood me until she saw that girl who couldnt be herself.
It was very cool,” she concluded.
12.In theIt Got Betterdocuseries, Raven-Symonesaidthat being a child star affected the way she viewed coming out.
“I never thought I would come out because my personal life didn’t matter.
It only mattered what could be sold as part of the Raven-Symone brand.”
Then, she went to college.
“I felt good.
After coming out to her parents and then the public, she felt lighter.
“But everyone was very supportive and very happy for me.
The reaction was something like, ‘Huh, cool.
Can we go back to the movie now?'”
14.Sarah PaulsontoldNotofu that she accidentally outed herself in 2005, back when she was dating Cherry Jones.
It didn’t occur to me to do anything but what I did.”
“In June, Im seeing Pride flags everywhere and seeing couples holding hands little stuff like that.”
16.In 2020, Demi Lovatorecalledcoming out on theRadio AndySiriusXM show.
They were so supportive.
My dad was like, ‘Yeah, obviously.’
And I was like, ‘Oh, okay Dad.'”
“That was so beautiful and amazing, and like I said, I’m so grateful.”
I was like, ‘Is anyone going to watch this video?
Is anyone gonna relate to it?'"
And I was so, so surprised to find my community once I released ‘Girls Like Girls.'"
18.In 2016, Hunter Schafer and her parents spoke toNorth Carolina Public Radio WUNC.
She approached her parents twice, insisting she was trans, before the message got through.
Hunter’s dad recalled that she attended a fashion camp.
Inside, everything in me was going no, no, no.
But outside, I said, ‘Yes, you’re able to.’
I think thats when everything became real.
A year later, they came out as nonbinary during an interview withOut.
Over lunch, his mom asked him if he was gay, and he said yes.
His dad, Eugene Levy, replied, “Oh no, we knew.
For the longest time.
But we were waiting.
And then, mom couldn’t wait any longer.”
The fucking closet was glass."
It was breaking my heart I was going wild.
I was lying and lying and lying, doing everything I could to hold on to my secret."
“It felt like people were deciding for me.”
“I said, ‘Im not straight.
I dont really label myself as anything.
I have been in love with guys, and I have been in love with girls.
That’s me.'”
She’s like, ‘I just know with you!’
Happiness is sometimes really hard, and if something makes you happy, enjoy it."
“The night I posted it, I cried like a fucking baby.
It was like all the frequency just clicked to a change in my head.
All the receptors were now receiving a different signal, and I was happy.
I hadn’t been happy in so long.
I’ve been sad again since, but it’s a totally different take on sad.
There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.”
25.In an essay written forOprah Daily, Andy Cohen shared that he first came out to friends.
Later, his mom found a letter he wrote.
The rest is history."
26.In 2018, Tessa Thompson publicly came out during an interview withPorter magazine.
Im attracted to men and also to women.
27.On an episode ofThe Talk, Sara Gilbertsharedthat she first came out to herRoseannecostar, Johnny Galecki.
“I thought he was super cute, and I had a total crush on him.
She continued, “And I wouldn’t stop coming out.
People were like, could you c’mon stop coming out?”
But she eventually realized she wanted to have diverse experiences.
“So then I kind of came out as straight, and then I came out as bi.
So now I’m a fruit.”
29.And finally, Michaela Jae Rodriguez discussed her transition in a 2016 interview withPlaybill.
She recalled her fear of informing her talent agency, saying, “I was really scared.
I didnt know what they were going to think.
Are you kidding me?
We love you.’
And they said, ‘It doesnt matter.
We still love you, and we dont care.'”
She said that her family and friends showered her in support, too.
“My mom is my biggest cheerleader.”
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