The Voice’s Sawyer Fredericks and More Celebrity Coming Out Stories

Sharing with satisfaction! Celebrities like Raven-Symoné, Dan Levy and extra have grow to be necessary figures inside the LGBTQ group as they’ve championed equality each on and offscreen.

The That’s So Raven alum’s private life turned the topic of headlines in August 2013 when she tweeted her response to the legalization of same-sex marriage. “I can lastly get married! Yay authorities! So pleased with you,” she wrote on the time.

Three years later, she spoke about her journey to self-acceptance and admitted that she “by no means thought” she would publicly come out.

“Being on tv units from age 3 until age 30, I’m extra comfy there,” she stated in a Might 2016 video for the Lexus L/Studio docuseries It Obtained Higher. “I do know what traces I’m alleged to say. Anyone else picks my garments for me. I’ve make-up accomplished. I’ve hair accomplished. And also you create a household with these folks that typically are nearer to you than your personal household.”

The Disney alum felt like she couldn’t be trustworthy about her sexuality as a result of she had been “branded at such a younger age” to suit the community’s picture. “I by no means thought I might come out as a result of my private life didn’t matter,” she stated on the time. “It was solely what was alleged to be offered because the Raven-Symoné model.”

Although she’d identified she was interested in ladies from a younger age, the previous The View cohost took her time when approaching her sexuality in public. Levy, for his half, got here out to his dad and mom when he was 18 — however as soon as feared that he would at all times have to cover his id from the remainder of the world.

“I legitimately thought that I must dwell with this secret — my being homosexual — for the remainder of my life as a result of I didn’t have the safety of seeing lots of people like myself being celebrated in widespread tradition,” the Schitt’s Creek creator and star stated in September 2019 on the GLAAD Gala in San Francisco. “Had I not had the love to provide me a way of safety, I don’t know if I might have discovered my means out of the closet, not to mention create the chance for myself to inform tales on tv which have effected some sort of constructive change on the earth.”

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The Emmy winner portrayed queer romance with positivity throughout the six seasons of Pop TV’s Schitt’s Creek, which got here to an finish in early 2020. Although the Rose household isn’t any extra, Levy vowed to maintain telling trustworthy tales for his communities.

“Help, encouragement and love: three comparatively easy acts of kindness that may change the course of an individual’s life,” he stated on the time. “I promise to proceed to do my half in celebrating this radiant group in all of the work that I do, huge and small.”

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