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

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.”

“I’ve gone both ways. I do as I please,” the “Fast and Furious” and “Avatar” star said to Entertainment Weekly. “I am too fucking curious to sit here and not try when I can. Men are intriguing. So are chicks.”

When asked later about the decision to open up about her love life, Rodriquez told Latina Magazine: “I’m getting older. Eventually it’s going to wrinkle up and I’m not going to be able to use it. I wanted to be honest about who I am and see what happens.”

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!'”

Kesha says she prefers not to use labels, but told Seventeen Magazine, “I don’t love just men. I love people. It’s not about a gender. It’s just about the spirit that exudes from that other person you’re with.”

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.”

When The Advocate asked the Black Eyed Peas frontwoman about her bisexual past and why it wasn’t a “trendy” thing for her, she said, “The funny thing is that I was very open and honest about that from the very beginning, and everyone was acting like it was some new trend. Go back four or five years, people, and you’ll see the same answer.”

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.”

“I think I’ve always been bisexual,” Armstrong said in a 1995 interview with The Advocate.

“I mean, it’s something that I’ve always been interested in. I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t.’ They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.”

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!'”

Sia came out as queer in August 2013, tweeting, “I’m queer. I don’t really identify as a lesbian because I’ve dated predominantly men. But I’ve certainly dated women.”

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.

Cho said in a 2018 interview with Huffington Post that she’s not sure if bisexual is necessarily the right word, “because that indicates that there’s only two genders, and I don’t believe that.”

“I’ve been with people all across the spectrum of gender and who have all kinds of different expressions of gender, so it’s so hard to say,” she continued. “Maybe ‘pansexual’ is technically the more correct term but I like ‘bisexual’ because it’s kind of ’70s. [Laughs] There’s something very chic about that word and I guess that’s probably the right one for me.”

In February 2019, Singh tweeted a checklist of identifiers: Female, colored, bisexual.

“Throughout my life these have proven to be obstacles from time to time,” Singh wrote. “But now I’m fully embracing them as my superpowers. No matter how many ‘boxes’ you check, I encourage you to do the same.”

“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.”

After penning a poem for Billboard Magazine during 2018’s Pride Month, Mraz got some attention for the line: “I am bi your side.”

“Honestly, I didn’t realize it was going to be so telling,” Mraz told Billboard. “But I’ve had experiences with men, even while I was dating the woman who became my wife. It was like, ‘Wow, does that mean I am gay?’ And my wife laid it out for me. She calls it ‘two spirit,’ which is what the Native Americans call someone who can love both man and woman. I really like that.”

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 like to change my hair, I like to take risks with how I dress, I like girls, and I like guys (yes), I like growing, I like learning, I like who I am and I really like who I’m becoming,” the “Love, Simon” star wrote in an Instagram post.

“I said, I’m not straight,” Lonsdale told EW when asked about his coming out story. with his friends. “I don’t really label myself as anything. I have been in love with guys and I have been in love with girls. That’s me.”

“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.'”

“I was a tomboy growing up, and I remember my mom asking me when I was 10, ‘Are you attracted to boys or girls?’ I said ‘I don’t know,'” Shawkat told Out Magazine. “Now I consider myself bisexual, and I think balancing my male and female energies has been a big part of me growing as an actor.”

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.

The “Stranger Things” actor came out as bisexual on Twitter.

“I don’t normally do this, but I figure now is as good a time as any to get personal,” Purser wrote. “I’ve only just recently come out as bisexual to my family and friends. It’s something I am still processing and trying to understand and I don’t like talking about it too much. I’m very very new to the LGBT 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.