'Better' Singer Khalid Comes Out as Gay: 'I Am! And That's Okay'

Khalid is opening up about his sexuality for the first time.

The 26-year-old “Better” and “Young Dumb & Broke” singer came out as gay in new posts he published on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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Khalid simply tweeted out the rainbow flag emoji with some exclamation points, then asked fans to move on.

“🏳️‍🌈!!! there yall go. next topic please lol,” he wrote in a tweet on Friday night (November 22).

Someone responded to his tweet and said, “Wait hope Mr Khalid isn’t GEHHH!”

Khalid wrote back, “I am! And that’s okay.”

This is the first time that Khalid has publicly talked about his sexuality, but he has always been an ally of the LGBTQ+ community. His song “Love Lies” was the official single for the Love, Simon soundtrack and he also spoke about the community while being honored as one of Time’s Most Influential Teens of 2017.

“America today feels like a scary place for many people, people of color, DREAMERS, women, the LGBTQ community,” he told Time back then. “It’s the young people of America, the teens, who have the power to create change.”

Check out a list of more celebs who have publicly come out as LGBTQ+ in 2024 so far.