These are the celebs who came out in 2024 (so far)

These stars are now living as their most authentic selves!

There's only a few months left of 2024, and already, several celebs have come out as queer!

As the last few bits of the yer continue on, we can expect that several more celebs will come out, but these ones have already done it, earning extra credit for coming first!

Here are the celebrities who have come out as a part of the LGBTQ+ community in 2024!

1. Madame LaQueer

In January, RuPaul's Drag Race season 4 star Madame LaQueer came out as trans, changing her name to Cassie out of drag and Madame Cassandra Uzumaki LaQueer while in drag.

2. Tom Hollander

Veteran actor Tom Hollander was asked about playing many gay roles this January and said that, "for some reason, who I am, who I am as a person allows me to present as gay. Yeah, sometimes I do present as gay. I mean, I always did, so—" and added that his "sexuality is sufficiently liberal to have encompassed many different experiences, which are not anyone's business."

3. Reneé Rapp

Singer and actor Reneé Rapp has been out as queer for a while, but she had previously labeled herself as bisexual. This year, she clarified that she now identifies as a lesbian, both on SNL and then in several interviews where she talked about her growing understanding of her own sexuality.

4. Amanda Tori Meating

Amanda Tori Meeting, a fan favorite drag queen from season 16 of RuPaul's Drag Race, also came out as trans this year. "It was kind of jarring to go from that environment where everyone is calling me Amanda and she/her-ing me [on Drag Race], to being called by my government name again, and he/him," she said. "I was like, ‘This is very much not correct for me.’ That experience helped push me out of the nest a little bit and crack the egg."

5. Colin Grafton

Dancing on Ice star and professional figure skater Colin Grafton came out in February 2024. He told PinkNews in an interview:

"It's been a long journey, but now I am proud of myself and I'm proud of my sexual orientation and I want to let other people know that they should be proud of every part of themselves too."

6. Sean Gunn

This Olympic swimmer came out as gay this year after representing Zimbabwe in the 2016 Rio Olympics. He said he was supported by fellow athletes when he came out. "If anything, friendships just became better," he said. "I think in my head I built it up for so long, and I was terrified that the way they acted or treated me would be different. But I was really lucky that everyone was so amazing and wanted me to be the happiest version of myself."

7. Tim Brewster & Kyle Friend

Beach volleyball partners Tim Brewster and Kyle Friend went from just being peers in the sport to actually falling in love and developing a romantic relationship between them. I mean, how can you NOT stan this gay power couple in beach volleyball?!

"Seeing an example of someone who is out and confident and able to do volleyball, I'd never been around that," Brewster told Volleyball Magazine. This story sounds like the plot of a queer rom-com novel, and we're obsessed.

8. Sophia Bush

Actor and One Tree Hill star Sophia Bush came out in an essay for Glamour where she addressed her new relationship with soccer player Ashlyn Harris. "I think I’ve always known that my sexuality exists on a spectrum. Right now I think the word that best defines it is queer. I can’t say it without smiling, actually. And that feels pretty great," she wrote.

9. Matt Terry

X-Factor season 13 winner Matt Terry came out this year when he released his new single "His Car," which detailed a relationship he had with a man when he was in his early twenties.

10. Daniel Bedingfield

Singer and older brother of Natasha Bedingfield, Daniel Bedingfield had a few hits in the early 2000s and this year, came out as queer. "I wrote this song with a man I loved about a girl we both loved," he said at a concert before performing his unreleased song "Borderline." "In my era, you had to be gay or straight, or f**k you," he added.

11. Taylor Tomlinson

Comedian and late night host Taylor Tomlinson came out as bisexual in her latest standup special Taylor Tomlinson: Have It All.

"So, anyway, I've been trying to figure out if I'm bisexual, or if I just binged Euphoria too fast," she quipped in the special. "Cause I've been trying to date women, but it is so hard. I don't know how to get women to like me."

"It's scary to just say you're bisexual, cause then someone's always like, 'Fuckin' prove it. Here’s a picture of Margot Robbie, are you wet? Let me feel,'" she added.

12. Morphine Love Dion

Another Drag Race season 16 queen, Morphine Love Dion took to Twitter earlier this year to clarify that she's nonbinary when people started mentioning her in conversations about men getting BBLs. "Hiii I love y’all [so much] but [please] stop tagging me in this. Y'all know I’m a they/them/her right? And if you didn’t know, now [you] know. [heart emoji]," they wrote.

13. Maya Massafera

With ​8.12 million subscribers on YouTube, 5.5 million followers on Instagram, Brazilian influencer Maya Massafera came out as a trans woman in May 2024 and appeared as the cover star of ​Vogue Brasil​'s digital Pride issue.

"There's the saying that 'life begins at 40.' Mine literally started at 43," Massafera wrote in a personal essay published on ​Vogue Brasil​. "For the first time, I understand what it means to be happy. My state of mind is happy."

14. Jessica Madsen

Best known for playing the fan-favorite character of Cressida Cowper on Bridgerton, Jessica Madsen shared a coming-out post in celebration of Pride Month this year.

"In love with a woman, loud about it and proud about it! [rainbow emoji]," Madsen wrote in an Instagram post, adding hashtags such as #pride, #pridemonth, #loveislove, and #gaypride.

15. Bulk Bronson

Another coming-out announcement that took place on Pride Month came from professional wrestler Bulk Bronson, who competes within the All Elite Wrestling (AEW) league.

Bronson came out as bisexual after his partner, Gabby Forza, shared a post reaffirming that she's bisexual/pansexual.

16. Jessica Gunning

Baby Reindeer breakout star Jessica Gunning came out as a "big, old gay" while telling a story about her "gay awakening" — which involved none other than kissing Cate Blanchett!

While starring in , Gunning and Blanchett had a kissing scene that actively prompted Gunning to question her sexuality. "I should have known then. All these signs from pre-Reindeer staring me in the face," she explained.

17. Chappell Roan

One of the most exciting artists to enter the pop music sphere in the last couple of years, Chappell Roan — who previously identified as queer — updated her fans that she's "a lesbian now." Frankly, we don't even have to explain how much we're LIVING for it.

"Some sh*t's changed… but, b*tch, I hope you're happy, cause I'm a lesbian now!" she said in a video re-posted via X user @subwaymp3.

18. Maren Morris

After spending the last few years going against the anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric pushed by conservatives and announcing that she'd be leaving country music, Maren Morris came out as bisexual in an Instagram post celebrating Pride Month.

"Happy to be the B in LGBTQ+. Happy pride [rainbow emoji]," the singer wrote in the caption.

19. Deshawn Radden

This year's Pride Month was also a great moment for Survivor 41 runner-up Deshawn Radden to come out. As he outlined a "running list of things" that he is, the reality TV star included "QUEER Black man."

"I came out to my family and a few close friends a few years ago," the Survivor album wrote in the caption. "The journey only began at that point, and it's taken much growing, learning & unlearning, and developing self-love to get here, especially as this part of my identity intersects with my faith. These last few seasons of my life have been transformative for me in that way."

Radden continued, "If I'm [for real], I had a fear of losing people because of who I was. However, my loved ones' responses showed me that unconditional love is just that, unconditional. So now I take solace in knowing who is for me will always rock! And beyond anything, I'm grateful to show up in all spaces as my full self now."

20. Carissa Rae Martin

On Wednesday, June 12, former Us the Duo band member Carissa Rae Martin wrote an essay for Out describing the coming-out journey that she's experienced after her recent divorce.

"Coming out should have been a sacred process. Something that should have been on my own terms," Martin wrote. "But that was ripped away from me. It was one thing to be outed to my friends and family, but to be outed publicly through a song for personal gain and promotion? Absolutely sickening."

In the essay, Martin later discussed that she "decided to finally reclaim [her] power," adding that coming to terms with her queerness helped her leave what she described as a "toxic relationship."

21. Louisa Jacobson

The Gilded Age actress Louisa Jacobson — who happens to be Meryl Streep's daughter! — celebrated Pride Month this year with a coming-out post on social media.

"Blessed to be entering the Joyful New Era bb," she wrote in an Instagram post alongside a Pride flag emoji.

22. Julia Fox

Julia Fox seemingly came out as a lesbian on July 8 with a cheeky TikTok video. It all started with a queer TikTok user who shared a video about seeing lesbians (in denial about their sexual orientations) with their male partners and recognizing that they were clearly not happy in those relationships.

Well, Fox saw that original TikTok and stitched it to create her own post, saying:

""Hey, that was me, I was that lesbian. So sorry, boys. Won't happen again."

23. Kitty Space

The Vietnamese-French drag artist best known for competing on Drag Race Francecame out as a transgender woman in a Instagram post in July.

"My name is Kiara [trans flag emoji; heart emoji]. I'm so happy to come out as trans. It was hard to hide, but today I want to live free; to be happy by being myself."

She continued, "What am I, deep inside: a woman living hidden while being unhappy? Or [someone who can] live free and be fulfilled? That question has been asked at length. Protect my loved ones who would take [the news of coming out as trans] badly, or protect myself?"

"I chose to protect myself, and also protect those who hide and who don't dare [to come out]," Kitty concluded. "Let's live free. It's our body, our gender, our choices."

24. Amethyst

RuPaul's Drag Race season 15 star Amethyst come out as trans in July in an emotional and beautiful letter shared on social media.

"Hi friends — First I wanted to say thanks a million for all the support with the new music coming out in a couple of weeks!" the letter starts. "It makes me incredibly happy so many are looking forward to listening. BUT that's not what this sappy letter is about! I wanted to take a couple minutes and open up to everyone about some things that have been going on in my personal life."

She continued: "The truth is, I've been struggling severely with my gender dysphoria more than ever in recent months. It's something that I've always concealed in the back of my mind, and through the years has slowly crept its way to the front. Last year was when things really started to hit me hard, and this mental warfare has just really escalated twice as fast since then. I let it get to a point where it was eating away at me and affecting everything in my life: my thoughts, my relationships, my confidence, but most importantly my sense of self. I knew what needed to be addressed but always told myself that I'll get to it when I'm ready."

25. Ralf Schumacher

Retired Formula One driver Ralf Schumacher, a member of the great Schumacher racing family, publicly came out in July after he posted about his partner, a man named Etienne, on Instagram.

Schumacher and his partner have received an outpouring of support since coming out, writing, "Many thanks for the many congratulations and comments. We are very happy and thank you all," in a follow-up post.

26. Sasha Colby

In an exclusive interview with Out back in August, the Drag Race season 15 winner came put as polyamorous, saying she was currently dating/seeing three partners at the time.

"I have three partners! I have two partners and someone else I'm dating."

27. Detox

The Drag Race season 5 and All Stars 2 legend casually came out as trans in August during a performance in Chicago where she proudly proclaimed "I'm trans now!"

28. Johann Vera

The Latin pop star, who first appeared on The X Factor in Colombia as a preteen and later was a contestant on Ricky Martin and Simon Cowell's Spanish-language music competition show La Banda, came out in August after releasing a song about his sexuality. He got so much support from fans, and even Ricky Martin himself gave him some words of encouragement.

29. Sasheer Zamata

In a September interview with Them, the comedian and actress, who most TV fans know from her time as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2014 to 2017, opened up about how even though she's out in her everyday normal life, she's now ready to share a part of her identity with the world she previously hadn't before.

"I'm out in my life and I do keep my personal life kind of private, but I also don't necessarily want my identity to be private," the 38-year-old actor, who stars alongside Kathryn Hahn, Aubrey Plaza, and Joe Locke in the WandaVision spin-off series Agatha All Along, told the publication. "I guess I'm one of those late-in-life lesbians. I just feel very comfortable and confident in my life."

30. Anthony Jeselnik

Anthony Jeselnik, a comedian often best known for his non-pc jokes and his Comedy Central show The Jeselnik Offensive, has a new special coming to Netflix called Bones and All, and in a new profile with Vulture, he opened up about his bisexual past.

In the profile, Jeselnik said that back in 2014 he was developing a show for FX, which he described as "bisexual Louie," but ultimately decided not to do the show.

"I said, 'You know what? I don't even want to work on this anymore. I don't want to do a narrative, I don't want to talk about sexuality.. It doesn't really benefit my comedy.'"

When the interviewer asked if the character in the show was based on him or just a fictional character, Jeselnik said "A little of both. It would have been someone figuring out their sexuality later."

The interviewer asked if that was an experience he had. "Sure. Yeah," Jeselnik said. I didn’t really have a comedic angle on it. It was like, 'Oh, maybe I’m gonna try this out.' Then I was like, 'No, I don’t really have anything to say about it, so maybe it’s someone else’s story to tell.' Or just … Yeah, it never really came together, and no one really gave a sh—t."

31. Kelly Marie Tran

Star Wars and Raya the Last Dragon star Kelly Marie Tran came out as queer while doing press for her upcoming movie The Wedding Banquet, a queer rom-com in which she plays one of the queer leads.

"I haven't said this publicly yet, but I'm a queer person," Tran said.

"The thing that really excited me about it was I got to play a person that I felt like I knew," Tran said about starring in The Wedding Banquet, by queer filmmaker Andrew Ahn (Fire Island). "I don't feel like I'm acting at all in this movie."

"I'm here doing this amazing movie with these amazing people," she continued. "I've never been in a queer space before. I've truly never felt this accepted."

R&B singer Khalid, known for hits like "Talk" and "Love Lies" with Normani, came out shortly after he was outed by another man on social media.

He tweeted out a gay pride flag emoji and said "there yall go. next topic please lol."

"I got outted and the world still continues to turn," he tweeted. "Let's get this straight (lmao) I am not ashamed of my sexuailty! In reality it aint nobodies business! But I am okay with me. Love y'all."