42 Celebrities Who Are Out and Proud!

Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris plays a womanizer on How I Met Your Mother. But he’s married to a man in real life.

Ellen Page

Jim Parsons

Jim Parsons is a multi-time Emmy winner. He came out in an interview with The New York Times.

Anderson Cooper

It’s the silver fox! Anderson Cooper made his announcment in a moving personal statement.

Zachary Quinto

Zachary Quinto is best known for roles in Heroes, American Horror Story and on the stage. He also plays Spock in the new Star Trek franchise.

Adam Lambert

There was never any real doubt about Adam Lambert’s sexuality. But he made it clear not long after his run on American Idol ended.

T.R. Knight

He’ll always be George O’Malley to Grey’s Anatomy fans. T.R. Knight was at the center of a gay slur scandal that led to a series cast shake-up.

Rosie O’Donnell

Rosie O’Donnell is one of our more outspoken celebrities. She has five kids.

Sean Hayes

Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres is married to Portia de Rossi. She absolutely cracks us up on her talk show.

Lance Bass

Lance Bass sang his way into our hearts a long time ago. We may still have his poster on our bedroom wall.

Portia de Rossi

Portia de Rossi is married to Ellen DeGeneres and slays us on Arrested Development. She’s never been shy about her sexuality.

Robin Roberts

Robin Roberts came out in late 2013. Reporters don’t get more respected than this GMA anchor.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Matt Bomer

Matt Bomer and his longtime partner have three children together.

Jane Lynch

Jane Lynch has been out of the closet for awhile. She cracks us up on Glee.

Chris Colfer

Chris Colfer is doubly gay! He’s gay in real life and he plays a gay high school graduate on Glee.

Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Nixon slept with a lot of men on Sex and the City. But she’s partial to women off screen.

Clay Aiken

Clay Aiken is another gay American Idol alum. He’s running for Congress in North Carolina.

Wanda Sykes

Ricky Martin

Ricky Martin is the father of twin boys. He’s living La Vida Loca.

Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Etheridge is a great singer. She wants to come to the window of women only.

Elton John

It’s shocking but true, folks: Elton John is gay!

Michael Sam

Michael Sam announced his sexuality prior to the 2014 NFL Draft. He was appropriately applauded for doing so.

Chely Wright

Chely Wright is the proud mothr of twins. The country star came out in early 2011.

Kristian Nairn

Daniel Franzese

Pat Patterson is a WWE legend. He came out in June 2014.

Ian Thorpe

Ian Thorpe is an Australian Gold Medalist – and also a homosexual. The swimmer made the admission in July 2014.

Chip Sarafin

Chip Sarafin came out as gay while playing offensive line for Arizona State. He became the first Division 1 athlete to do so while playing college football.

Tim Cook

Ty Herndon

Jussie Smollett has come out as gay. He makes the public admission in this chat with Ellen DeGeneres. Watch now.

Ingrid Nilsen is a viral sensation and a judge on Project Runway Threads. She admits in this video that she is also gay.

Gus Kenworthy

Gus Kenworthy is an Olympic skier. He’s also now one of the best known gay athletes in the world.

Reid Ewing

Reid Ewing plays Dylan on Modern Family. He never felt a need to officially come out as gay, but the information went public in late 2015.

Charlie Carver

Charlie Carver made big news in early 2016. He announced that he is a gay man in Hollywood. Good for him!

Colton Haynes

Colton Haynes made some pretty big news in May of 2016. He came out and confirmed that he is gay.

Cody Alan

Cody Alan is gay. The CMT host and beloved country music figure made this announcement himself in January of 2017.

Sue Bird

Sue Bird is one the best female basketball players of all-time. She came out as gay in July of 2017.

Kevin McHale

Kevin McHale came out as gay in the spring of 2018. He said he was inspired to do so by a song released by Ariana Grande.

Amandla Stenberg

The actress came out to Wonderland magazine in June of 2018.