25 celebs who came out after playing LGBTQ+ characters on screen

Lionel Hahn // Getty Images 25 actors who’ve come out after playing an LGBTQ+ character

In April 2024, actor Sophia Bush came out at 41 years old, about two decades after she played a bisexual character on the hit FX series “Nip/Tuck” and kissed Brittany Snow in the teen comedy “John Tucker Must Die.” “People who pay attention are like, ‘Yeah, we know,’” Bush told Glamour of her queerness. “All my fans who paid attention are like, ‘Yeah, I mean, we’ve watched her date women on camera forever; we knew that wasn’t the first time she did that.’”

Film and TV representation of LGBTQ+ individuals has advanced in leaps and bounds in recent decades, and this long-overdue movement has already translated into significant social progress

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