71 celebrities who don’t identify as either straight or gay

In her 2022 single “Bikini Bottom,” which became a runaway smash on TikTok, Ice Spice included a line about being attracted to both men and women.

“I like n—–, bitches too,” she raps in the second verse. “Ayo, baddie, what it do?”

In a video for Genius explaining the lyrics, the Bronx rapper said this was very intentional.

“So I was just like, they need to know. We’re here and we’re queer,” she said. “So, period.”

Just a few months later, Ice Spice was tapped to feature on Taylor Swift’s “Karma,” in which she sprinkled similar winks about her sexuality.

Next to Swift’s lyrics like “Karma is my boyfriend,” Ice Spice raps, “Karma is that girl” and “Karma is a fire in your house / And she ’bout to pop up unannounced.”

Dacus publicly identified herself as queer during a 2016 interview with NPR.

In 2021, the “Night Shift” singer wrote an essay for Oprah Daily, in which she reflected on that experience and grappled with the concept of “coming out.”

“My mom called me after she read it, concerned, because she still saw the word ‘queer’ as a slur,” she wrote. “I told her what it means to me, why I like it as a catch-all term, how it feels like saying not straight and none of your business.“

“For some members of my family, this essay may be me coming out to them, if they read it. I’ve heard that coming out never ends, which sounds exhausting,” Dacus continued. “Maybe I instinctively understood that coming out would never end and the fear of exhaustion is what kept me from beginning for so long. But there is also the exhaustion of ignoring yourself.”

That same month, Dacus discussed the various labels for her sexuality with The New York Times.

“Gay is the overarching word, queer is the better overarching word and more specifically bisexual or pansexual,” she said. “I have no allegiance. I think gender is a joke.”

The “White Lotus” star spoke about her fluid sexuality during a 2016 interview with The Advocate.

“I know I have an androgynous thing going on, and there’s something masculine about my energy,” Plaza said, when asked if women ever flirt with her.

“Girls are into me — that’s no secret. Hey, I’m into them too. I fall in love with girls and guys. I can’t help it.”

Bassett is one of several stars who have declined to label their sexuality, but he has confirmed he’s “happy to be a part of the LGBTQ+ community.”

The “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” star shared a statement on Twitter after he made headlines for calling Harry Styles “hot” in a video interview.

“My entire life people have told me my sexuality,”he wrote. “People have shamed me for things they know nothing about. I want to say thank you to those of you who stand for love and acceptance.”

In a subsequent interview with GQ, Bassett said he is “anti-coming out in the sense that there’s no need to.” 

“There are plenty of letters in the alphabet… Why bother rushing to a conclusion? Sometimes your letter changes, sometimes you try a different one, other times you realize you’re not what you thought you were, or maybe you always knew,” he explained. “All of these can be true. I’m happy to be a part of the LGBTQ+ community because they embrace all. Don’t let anyone tell you love isn’t love. They’re the ones who probably need it the most.”

“Being a queer black woman in America, someone who has been in relationships with both men and women — I consider myself to be a free-ass motherfucker,” Monáe said in a 2018 interview with Rolling Stone.

As the article makes clear, Monáe first identified as bisexual. “But then later I read about pansexuality and was like, ‘Oh, these are things that I identify with too,'” Monae said. “I’m open to learning more about who I am.”

Monáe, who also identifies as nonbinary, frequently explores queer themes in her music, as with her 2018 single “Pynk.”

Shortly after the release of Ariana Grande’s hit single “Thank U, Next,” which Monét cowrote, she clarified her sexuality on Twitter.

“I want everyone to know that I’m single (since people wanna pretend I’m not) and make imaginary rules for me,” she wrote. “I secretly and respectfully went through a difficult break up this summer but enough is enough.”

“I also like girls. Thank U, Next. Bye,” Monét added,

The “Jaguar” singer later described her coming out experience as “a buttercup version because I was really lucky.”

“It should feel more warm for everybody,” she told Billboard. “I think we should make people more comfortable.”  

Baby Queen wrote her breakout hit “Want Me” about having a crush on “Killing Eve” star Jodie Comer.

Asked about this inspiration in 2021, the singer-songwriter told Business Insider that she’s still exploring her sexuality.

“I’m going to be honest. I don’t know,” she said. “I’m fine for other people to know that I don’t know, because I don’t think anyone knows. I’d say, like, bisexual — but also, I just don’t know. I feel like I need to figure it out. I need to go speed dating.”

During a subsequent interview with BI in 2022, Baby Queen revealed that she is open to dating people of all genders, though she hasn’t had much luck using apps like Raya.

“It’s horrific,” she joked. “All the guys are looking for blonde influencer girls… I don’t fit into that. And all the girls are looking for rich football players. No one has matched with me.”

In a 2021 interview with the Gay Times, Dove Cameron said it felt important to speak candidly with fans about her sexuality.

“I’ve hinted about my sexuality for years while being afraid to spell it out for everybody,” she said.

“I went on Instagram Live and said ‘Guys, I really needed to explain something to you. Maybe I haven’t said it, but I’m super queer,” she continued. “This is something I want to represent through my music because it’s who I am.”

Cameron has released songs with female pronouns and queer storylines, including the 2022 hit “Boyfriend.”

“I wasn’t ever afraid of people knowing who I loved,” she explained to E! News. “More so, I was afraid of people having access to the human parts of me in an industry that can be so anti-human. That was definitely an emotional thing, but it turned out to be the best thing that could have ever happened to me. Mentally, I’m so much better now.”

The “Telepatía” singer opened up about her bisexuality in a 2021 interview with The Day.

“I’ve been bisexual my whole life,” she said.

“People are constantly trying to find something to invalidate,” Uchis continued. “I want more people in the Latin community to feel like they can express themselves freely and not have to confine themselves.” 

Lovato, who initially came out as bisexual to their parents in 2017, said they now identify as pansexual during an episode of Joe Rogan’s podcast.

“I’m so fluid now, and a part of the reason why I am so fluid is because I was, like, super closeted off,” Lovato said. When Rogan asked whether they like women or men, Lovato replied: “Yeah, anything, really.”

Lovato, who identifies as nonbinary, has also said she feels “too queer” to be involved with cisgender men going forward.

“This past year I was engaged to a man, and when it didn’t work, I was like, ‘This is a huge sign.’ I thought I was going to spend my life with someone. Now that I wasn’t going to, I felt this sense of relief that I could live my truth,” Lovato said after calling off their engagement with Max Ehrich after two months.

Tyler, the Creator has generally declined to define his sexuality, but the rapper has written lyrics about his attraction to both men and women.

Throughout his Grammy-winning album “Igor,” for example, Tyler grapples with the end of a same-sex relationship.

“I like girls,” he told GQ in 2019. “I just end up fucking their brother every time.”

Ocean famously shared an open letter about his sexuality mere days before his debut album, 2012’s “Channel Orange,” was set to drop.

“4 summers ago, I met somebody. I was 19 years old. He was too,” he wrote on Tumblr. “By the time I realized I was in love, it was malignant. It was hopeless. There was no escaping, no negotiating with the feeling. No choice. It was my first love. It changed my life.”

That same year, Ocean declined to label himself bisexual in an interview with GQ.

“I’ll respectfully say that life is dynamic and comes along with dynamic experiences, and the same sentiment that I have towards genres of music, I have towards a lot of labels and boxes and shit,” he said.

Many songs on “Channel Orange,” as well his 2016 sophomore album “Blonde,” see Ocean using male pronouns to address his lovers. However, many more of his lyrics illustrate attraction to women.

Ocean’s 2017 single “Chanel” is widely interpreted as an allegory for bisexuality: “My guy pretty like a girl / And he got fight stories to tell / I see both sides like Chanel / C on both sides like Chanel,” he sings in the hook.

In a 2022 interview with the Los Angeles Times, the Brazilian hitmaker said she came out to her family long before the docuseries premiered.

“I kissed a girl before I kissed a guy,” she said. “I only told my mom after I kissed a guy, because… I didn’t know how to feel. I thought there was something wrong with me for wanting to kiss a guy and a girl. But my mom just said, ‘So what?'”

“My family never had an issue, but everyone else needed an answer about it,” she continued. “So I said, ‘I don’t want to be hiding.’ If I go to the club and I want to kiss a girl, I don’t want to be scared of people seeing me and freaking out.”

Parx is currently in a relationship with a woman, but told BI that she prefers to write songs without gender-specific pronouns.

“I’ve always been a fan of keeping things gender neutral, honestly,” she said,” because of the fact that I’m bi, so sometimes my song is about a boy, sometimes it’s about a girl.”

“I really like keeping it inclusive,” Parx continued. “I really love when somebody can come up to me and say, ‘I went through this with my partner,’ whoever that partner is — whether it’s a him or her, or whatever their pronoun is.”

When asked about potentially being part of a “throuple” (a relationship between three people), Smith said she could see herself being with a man and woman at the same time.

“I love men and women equally and so I would definitely want one man, one woman,” Smith said on her mom’s show “Red Table Talk.” “I feel like I could be polyfidelitous with those two people.”

Wolf, who has toured with stars like Lorde and Olivia Rodrigo, peppers her music with references to both male and female lovers — dating all the way back to her debut EP, 2019’s “You’re a Dog!”

In an interview with Paper magazine, Wolf described the closing track “Shawty” as an “honest song about being a queer artist and having duplicity in what it meant to write music about a casual, yet fun relationship with a woman.”

The “Jennifer’s Body” actress first opened up about her sexuality in 2008, when she revealed that she’d had a crush on a woman.

“I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes,” she told GQ. “I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl.”

The following year, Fox elaborated in a cover story for Esquire.

“I think people are born bisexual and they make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society,” she said. “I have no question in my mind about being bisexual.”

The “Prom Dress” singer told BI that many of her love songs are gender-neutral by design.

“There’s not enough songs in the world where people can listen to it, and it doesn’t have any sort of gender to it, and it doesn’t say like, ‘Boy-oy-oy,'” she said.

“So I think that it’s nice for me to be able to think about that, because heck, who knows what could happen in the future? Maybe I’ll like someone else. I just think songs should exist for anyone.”

“Gender and sexuality are so fluid. It’s OK to change your mind a million times and figure out what works for you. It’s OK to take your time,” Stenberg told Seventeen magazine in 2018.

“I love that we have this umbrella term of ‘queer,’ and so many things can exist underneath it, but I realized that part of my journey was hiding underneath that umbrella, because I was scared — on a personal and a public level — to confront what I was,” Stenberg continued.

“It was easier for me to say ‘I’m bi’ or “I’m pan’ as I was figuring it out. But I came to a place where I felt really proud of my sexuality, and I decided I wanted to share that pride.”

Thompson told Net-a-Porter that she’s attracted to both men and women.

“I can take things for granted because of my family – it’s so free and you can be anything that you want to be,” Thompson said. “I’m attracted to men and also to women. If I bring a woman home, [or] a man, we don’t even have to have the discussion.”

Hedges stars as the titular character in 2018’s “Boy Erased,” whose parents send him to conversion therapy after he comes out as gay. 

“I owe it to this part to speak as honestly as possible,” Hedges told Vulture in an interview about the film. “In the early stages of my life, some of the people I was most infatuated with were my closest male friends. That was the case through high school, and I think I was always aware that while for the most part I was attracted to women, I existed on a spectrum.”

Over two decades ago, Drew Barrymore came out in an interview in Contact Magazine, saying, “Do I like women sexually? Yeah, I do. Totally. I have always considered myself bisexual.”

“I love a woman’s body. I think a woman and a woman together are beautiful, just as a man and a woman together are beautiful.”

Jauregui came out as bisexual in a 2016 Billboard op-ed piece, writing, “I am a bisexual Cuban-American woman and I am so proud of it.”

The following year, the former Fifth Harmony member collaborated with Halsey on her song “Strangers,” a pop duet about an ill-fated gay romance. The lyrics initially had both artists singing about an unnamed “he.”

“Then I got a text from her: ‘Hey, babe, you can totally shut this down, but I was thinking we could switch the pronouns,” Jauregui told Out Magazine. “I was like, ‘Bitch, I was thinking the same thing!'”

The legendary record producer came out as bisexual in his memoir, “The Soundtrack Of My Life.”

“The adage is that you’re either straight or gay or lying, but that’s not my experience,” Davis wrote. “To call me anything other than bisexual would be inaccurate.”

In 2015, Cumming told The Advocate, “My sexuality has never been black and white; it’s always been gray. I’m with a man, but I haven’t closed myself off to the fact that I’m still sexually attracted to women.”

Now he’s added a section about his sexuality to the FAQ on his website.

“I’m not here to change people’s minds about whether they believe in bisexuality,” it reads. “All I’m saying is that I think my sexuality and most people’s sexuality is gray. I am married to a man. I have a healthy sexual appetite and a healthy imagination. I also have an attraction to women. I’ve never lost it, actually.”

After talking openly about being with men and women, the “Suicide Squad” star expressed frustration about the way some people misidentify her as gay.

“A lot of the friends I have who are straight have such an old way of thinking,” Delevingne said in an interview for Glamour. “It’s ‘So you’re just gay, right?’ [They] don’t understand it. [If] I’m like, ‘Oh, I really like this guy,’ [they’re like], ‘But you’re gay.’ I’m like, ‘No, you’re so annoying!'”

The “Grey’s Anatomy” star came out as queer during a speech at True Colors Fund’s 40 to None Summit.

“So many of our youth experiencing homelessness are youth whose lives touch on many intersections — whether they be gender identity, gender expression, race, class, sexual orientation, religion, citizenship status,” they said.

“Because of the intersections that exist in my own life: woman, multi-racial woman, woman of color, queer, bisexual, Mexican-Irish American, immigrant, and raised by families heavily rooted in Catholicism on both my Mexican and Irish sides, I am deeply invested in projects that allow our youth’s voices to be heard.”

Ramirez has since come out as nonbinary.

In an interview with Women’s Health Magazine, Hough said she told her husband that she wasn’t straight, which many fans interpreted as her speaking out against bisexual-erasure.

“I [told him], ‘You know I’m not straight, right?'” Hough said to Women’s Health. “And he was like, ‘I’m sorry, what?’ I was like, ‘I’m not. But I choose to be with you.'”

“Follow your gut and don’t feel like you owe any sort of explanation to anyone,” Daya wrote. “Your sexuality is yours only so build with it at a pace that works for you. I’m proud to be a bisexual member of the LGBTQ community with a girl I love who makes me feel more like me every day.”

Daya added that she has received plenty of support and “though it wasn’t always easy I also recognize how privileged I am to have had so much of it, so I especially wanna be there for those of u who aren’t surrounded by the most accepting family/friends/communities.”

Jackson identifies as part of the LGBTQ+ community and has mentioned crushing on girls in magazine interviews, but she prefers not to be called bisexual.

“I’m not bisexual,” Jackson wrote in an Instagram post. “I just love people for people. I don’t label myself so please don’t label me. Thank you!”

“I don’t identify as anything,” Heard told Allure in 2017. “I’m a person. I like who I like. I happened to be dating a woman, and people started taking pictures of us walking to our car after dinner. I [was] holding her hand, and I realized that I have two options: I can let go of her hand and, when asked about it, I can say that my private life is my private life. Or I could not let go and own it.”

It was when Heard decided to “own it” back in 2010 that the bisexual label first came into play, though she’s since decided against using the term.

“It’s limiting, that LGBTQ thing,” she told Allure. “It served a function as an umbrella for marginalized people to whom rights were being denied, but it loses its efficacy because of the nuanced nature of humanity […] I don’t care how many letters you add. At some point, it’s going to spell ‘WE ARE HUMAN.'”

In 2017, “The Walking Dead” star came out as bisexual to his fans on social media and promoted the hashtag #OutandProud with supportive messages about visibility within the LGBTQ+ community.

“I’m bi, and I’m getting married this fall,” Beatriz wrote in 2018. “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.”

She continued: “I’ve chosen to use that platform to speak openly about my bi-ness, because of other people who may feel invisible and unsure of whether or not to come out as bisexual.”

“I wasn’t out before the relationship, but I wasn’t in,” Davis said in an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “I dated men and women, though lesbians weren’t feeling the bisexual thing. Now I’m in love with a woman I think I can be with forever.”

“The way I would choose to identify myself wouldn’t be gay,” Miller said to The Daily Beast in 2012. “I’ve been attracted mostly to ‘shes,’ but I’ve been with many people and I’m open to love wherever it can be found.”

Ciara Applebaum contributed to a previous version of this article.