Here are all of the celebrities who came out in 2025 (so far)
| 03/21/25
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We're so happy to add these celebs to the fam!
From left: Brianna Chickenfry, Jade Carey, and Paul Reubens.
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Coming out can be hard and scary, but living out loud and proud is a great step toward living a happier and more authentic life.
Last year, 54 stars took this step and came out of the closet, including celebs like comedian Taylor Tomlinson, Survivor star Deshawn Redden, Drag Race’s Sasha Colby, and comic Anthony Jeselnik. It’s so exciting to live in a day and age where so many famous people feel comfortable announcing to the world that they’re queer.
So here are all of the celebrities who have bravely come out as LGBTQ+ in 2025... so far!
Jade Carey
Olympic gymnast Jade Carey came out on March 20 when she hard launched her new girlfriend on Instagram, marking the first time the gold medal winner has ever spoken publicly about her sexuality.
Carey celebrated the love she shares with her girlfriend Aimee Sinacola, director of creative content for the University of Oregon Ducks, by posting a carousel of photos of the two women together along with the simple caption, “happy” followed by the white heart, lock and key, sparkle, and love letter emojis.
Jenny Blake Isabella
On February 9, Black Lightning creator Jenny Blake Isabella came out as transgender on X (formerly Twitter) by posting the meme “Keep Calm and Yes I'm Transgender.” She went into more detail in caption and asked fans to repeat her desire for privacy, “This is real. I'll have more to say soon. In the meantime, I ask you respect my privacy and especially that of my wife and our children. Thank you.”
Isabella followed her initial post the next day with an update about how rewarding it was to live her authentic life out lout and proud. “THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY: Coming out as transgender on my social media was one of the scariest things I have ever done. The love and support I was shown lifted my spirits and gave me hope. I’ll have more to say soon. For now...thank you,” she wrote on X.
Alexis Floyd
Grey’s Anatomy star Alexis Floyd came out publicly for the first time on an episode of the Made it Out podcast, telling the host that she was pretty young when she first realized she was queer. “I was pretty young, like probably fifth grade. I remember having a crush on a girl and hanging out with her and kissing at a playdate,” she recalled. “Then that just sort of continued through my life where in college, again, like, yeah, I would date trans folks, non-binary folks, like all sorts of folks.”
She also said that embracing her queer identity is something she’s still working on, “I still and something I'm still navigating is this internalized feeling of not being queer enough to like, like to be honest, like this is the first time I'm really publicly speaking about my queerness on a formal platform.”
Brianna Chickenfry
Former Barstool Sports personality Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia admitted that she may be "fully a lesbian” while on an episode of the BFF podcast in January.
“Everyone’s saying I’m a lesbian, which is fine. … I’ve dabbled for sure. I’m thinking maybe girls is my play,” she said. She went on to tell the podcast host that she suspects her past relationships with men may not have worked because of her sexuality. “I think that they’re better, so maybe I really am fully a lesbian, so maybe that’s why none of my relationships with men have worked out,” LaPaglia continued. “But I don’t know. Time will tell.”
Paul Rubens aka Pee-wee Herman
Paul Reubens, better known as Pee-wee Herman, may not have been able to come out to the public while he was still alive, but he was able to speak to fans about his sexuality posthumously through a documentary he participated in creating.
“I was out of the closet, and then I went back in the closet,” Reubens said in the documentary. “I wasn’t pursuing the Paul Reubens career; I was pursuing the Pee-wee Herman career.”
He later admitted that he felt he had to keep his sexuality secret, even to close friends. “I was secretive about my sexuality even to my friends [out of] self-hatred or self-preservation,” Reubens said. “I was conflicted about sexuality. But fame was way more complicated.”
Villads Raahauge Jensen
Danish pro handballer Villads Raahauge Jensen, who also hosts the Håndbold - mere end bare en sport (Handball - more than just a sport), came out on Instagram in January by bravely writing, “I am gay. Three words that should, in reality, be easy to say, but for many years, I’ve been afraid to be open about it.”
Jensen also feared that they way people viewed him would change once they knew the truth about his sexuality. “Those who know me also know that handball has always been my first priority in all aspects of my life. But the thought that the entire narrative about who I am as a person would change solely because of my sexuality has been something I didn’t dare take a chance on,” he continued.
