Bisexuals are often underrepresented or misrepresented in the media and this bi-erasure often fuels negative stereotypes about bisexuals such as, they don’t exist, they’re greedy or that they’re just in denial about being gay.
Bisexuality visbility is crucial to allow people to know that being bi is ok and that they’re not alone and there’s people out there who identify with the same sexuality they do.
For example, celebrities who come out will often help to encourage others to do the same and they help to validate that bisexuality is indeed a real thing, which is why we’re going to be listing 15 bisexual celebrities who are out and proud!
To hopefully encourage anyone thinking about coming out to do so.
1. Halsey
Halsey has always been open about her bisexuality and has been a long time LGBT activisit.
As a bi-racial, bisexual woman who suffers with bi-polar disorder, she has identified as ‘tri-bi’.
She frequently includes explicitly bisexual love songs that highlight the truth about being bisexua, her most famous is “Strangers” who she made with bisexual Fifth Harmony star Lauren Jauregi.
2. Demi Lovato
Singer Demi Lovato’s dating life began to spark rumors of whether or not she might be bisexual. Her most recent relationship was with Max Elrich, a professional baseball outfielder whom she was dating for a few months until late 2019.
In a social media post mourning the death of her Glee co-star Naya Rivera, she labeled herself as queer and in a 2020 interview with Andy Cohen, she opened up about how she came out as bisexual to her parents, who were supporitve of her sexuality.
In 2021, the singer came out as non-binary with a decision to change her pronouns to they/them, but as of August 2022 she mentioned she was a “fluid person” and had decided to “adopt the pronouns she/her again” as she felt “more feminine”.
3. Angelina Jolie
The Eternals’ star Angelina Jolie may have been famous for her 12-year relationship with fellow actor Brad Pitt, but she’s been open about her bisexuality for a number of years now and even dated model and actress Jenny Shimizu in 1996, and according to Shimizu their relationship lasted several years.
She told OK Magazine in 2003, “I have loved women in the past and slept with them. I think if you love and want to pleasure a woman, particularly if you’re a woman, then certainly you know how to do things a certain way”.
4. Andy Mientus
The former Flash star is openly bisexual and has been married to actor and director Michael Arden since 2014 but they have been together since 2010.
They both met in 2006 during the opening night party of The Times They Are-a-Changin, in which Arden was a performer, and both planned their proposals to each other on the same day without knowing. How cute!
In a 2016 post to Instagram, Mientus opened up about the stigma of being bisexual and told his followers “If you think you could be bi, ask yourself what is holding you back from accepting it.
Is it your own developing feelings or your fear of society around you? Together, we can end that stigma”.
5. Frank Ocean
The ‘Chanel’ singer opened up in a letter that was initially intended for the linear notes on Channel Orange, that addressed the speculation about his attraction to another man in the post.
Instead, he posted the letter to his Tumblr blog in 2012, in this letter he recounted his unrequited feelings he had for another young man when he was 19. He thanked the man for his influence and cited it as his first true love.
6. Lili Reinhart
Reinhart came out as bisexual in June 2020, in an interview with Flaunt Magazine, she talked about how she always knew she was bisexual, but she was scared of becoming a media spectacle for having only been in relationships with the opposite sex.
“I felt that since I’ve exclusively been in heteronormative relationships, it would be too easy for any outsider, especially the media, to vilify me and accuse me of faking it to get attention,” she told the publication.
“That’s not something I wanted to deal with. But to my close friends, and those in my life, my bisexuality has been no secret.”
7. Megan Fox
The actress and model has stated in the past that she has a general dislike and distrust of men, she has publicly stated that she is bisexual and in a 2011 interview with Esquire she said “ I believe people are born bisexual and then make subconscious choices based on the pressures of being bisexual.
I have no doubt in my mind that I’m bisexual”.
8. Andrew Gillum
On September 14, 2020 the former mayor of Tallahassee came out as bisexaul in an interview with Tamron Hall.
“You didn’t ask the question, you put it out there of whether I identify as gay. The answer is I don’t identify as gay but I do identify as bisexual,” he then added, “And that is something that I’ve never shared publicly before.”
9. Rita Ora
In 2018, Ora received backlash for the way she portayred bisexual women in her single “Girls”, she responded to the backlash by coming out as bisexual herself.
In a post to twitter, she apologized if the way she expressed herself in the song hurt anyone and continued on saying “Girls was written to represent my truth and is an accurate account of a very real and honest experience in my life”.
10. Daniel Newman
In 2017, the Walking Dead star opened up to People about his bisexuality and he had hoped that his coming out had encouraged LGBTQ youth to do the same. “I don’t want to be hidden and have to dodge the question,” he told the People.
“I’m proud of who I am.”
He often makes appearances in support of GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign.
11. Jason Mraz
In June 2018, Mraz wrote a “love letter” to the LGBT community as a Billboard feature during gay pride month. A line in the poem read, “I am bi your side. / All Ways”, this lead many to speculate that the poem represented Mraz’s coming out as bisexual.
He responded with “Honestly, I didn’t realize it was going to be so telling. But I’ve had experiences with men, even while I was dating the woman who became my wife”
12. Zoe Saldana
In a 2013 interview with Allure, the actress talked about the fact that she could see herself ending up with a woman, despite only dating men.
In the interview she said “[I might] end up with a woman raising my children,” and furthered the comment by saying, “that’s how androgynous I am”.
13. François Arnaud
Arnaud recently came out as bisexual through his Instagram stories in 2020, he did this during Bisexual Awareness Week to show soldarity and support.
In the post he wrote “Silence has the perverse effect of perpetuating those stereotypes, making bi guys invisible, and leading people to doubt we even exist” he expanded further saying, “No wonder it’s still a chore to acknowledge bisexuality without getting into lengthy explanations”.
14. Stephanie Beatriz
The Brooklyn 99 star realized she was bisexual by the age of around 12 or 13, she then experienced bi-erasure and biphobia from her family and friends.
In 2016, she publicly came out as bisexual and in an open letter to GQ in 2018, she reaffirmed that marrying a man doesn’t make her any less bisexual.
“I’m bi, and I’m getting married this fall. I’m excited, nervous, terrified, and so fucking happy,” she wrote. “I’m choosing to get married because this particular person brings out the best in me. This person happens to be a man. I’m still bi”
15. Tyler Blackburn
Blackburn, best known for playing Caleb Rivers in Pretty Little Liars, came out as bisexual in an interview with The Advocate in 2019, stating how he always knew he was bisexual since adolescene.
“I’m queer. I’ve identified as bisexual since a teenager,” he said. “I just want to feel powerful in my own skin, and my own mind, and in my own heart.”
Final Thoughts
Bisexual visibility is crucial, as bi people are often portrayed with negative and rude stereotypes, there needs to be something in mainstream media that allows young people to know that being bisexual is ok.
These celebrities are all incredibly brave in speaking their truth publicly, and some have even feared backlash from doing so.
There are thousands of celebrities out there who aren’t on this list who are out publicly as bisexual, but all that means is that it should give you hope that there’s so many people out there like you, and it might be scary coming out, but hopefully these celebrities can give you the strenghth to do the same.
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