LGBTQ+ representation in media has never been stronger, but there's still a lot of work to be done. These Gen Zers are helping to inspire others by standing in their truth.
“I feel like coming out isn’t necessarily a requirement or something we should be pushing for. Straight people don’t ever need to come out as straight. This is me announcing I’m a queer person, because that makes it seem like something abnormal — and it isn’t.”
She calls that first coming out a “waste of time,” ultimately: “I could’ve just come home and brought home my boyfriend.” The more difficult coming out, she says, was when she revealed her drag persona. “Where I’m from, drag is not a think. They did not get it. They automatically were like, ‘OK, you’re transitioning.”
It’s a belief he still holds today — partially. But with his unique position as a multiplatform actor, comedian, influencer and former regular guest on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” he knows there are people watching. He posted a picture of himself next to drapes from a behind-the-scenes take of an old Hollywood-themed photoshoot, metaphorically and literally “peeling back the curtain,” he says. In the post, he shared that he was gay.
“I won’t address it, you’ll never see me with a girlfriend, you’ll never see me with a boyfriend,” he says. “The cost that I’ve paid, I've already been given it back to me, tenfold,” Allen says. “These are the benefits that I’m getting in return for all of that heartache and trials and tribulations — and at the end of the day, I made it over the rainbow … that’s what I choose to bask in, that joy and that peace.”
She says since her identity was something that she came into “later on in life,” so much of that summer was spent “making up for lost time” for all the experiences she missed out on as a teenager.
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