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Many Hollywood, music and sports activities stars have spoken out over time to share their love for his or her lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender and queer kids. Discover out which celebrities have been supportive of their LGBTQ youngsters — and the few who have not — beginning with this actress, creator and tv host… On the Dec. 31, 2020, episode of her “Busy Philipps is Doing Her Greatest” podcast, Busy Philipps for the primary time publicly mentioned the sexual and gender identities of her eldest little one with screenwriter husband Marc Silverstein, People journal reported. “For these of you who’re my mates listening at dwelling, that is the primary you are listening to that Birdie is homosexual and out,” Busy shared, including that Birdie, who was 12 on the time, “instructed us at 10 years outdated and we instantly… I imply clearly, I knew that Birdie knew.” Busy afterward the podcast stated that in the case of gender identification, Birdie — who gave Mother permission to talk on the topic — prefers to make use of the pronouns they/them. “I f*** up typically, however I am making an attempt my greatest…,” Busy stated of getting her kid’s pronouns proper. Preserve studying for extra stars whose youngsters belong to the LGBTQ neighborhood…

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Singer Gloria Estefan and producer Emilio Estefan’s daughter, musician Emily Estefan, identifies as queer. She publicly got here out in 2017 when she shared a photograph of herself with accomplice Gemeny Hernandez on social media. However in October 2020, Emily and Gloria made headlines after they publicly mentioned, intimately for the primary time, Emily’s sexual identification and popping out story throughout an episode of their FaceBook Watch series “Crimson Desk Discuss: The Estefans.” The emotional dialog touched on every thing from how and when Emily instructed her mother and father her reality to harm and ache she skilled upon telling Gloria regardless of finally having her help.

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Dwyane Wade publicly shared his help for one in all his kids, who’s now generally known as Zaya, when spouse Gabrielle Union took her stepchild to the annual Miami Seaside Pleasure pageant on April 7, 2019. (Zaya’s mother is Dwyane’s first spouse, Siohvaughn Funches.) “We help one another with Pleasure,” Dwyane — who was upset he could not be there as a result of he had a recreation out of city — wrote on his Instagram Story on the time. In February 2020, Dwyane shared extra throughout an look on “The Ellen DeGeneres Present,” explaining that Zaya, who was born in 2007, had determined to alter pronouns. “[Zaya was] initially named Zion, born as a boy — got here dwelling and stated, ‘Hey, I need to discuss to you guys. I feel going ahead I am able to reside my reality. I need to be referenced as she and her, I’d love for you guys to name me Zaya.'” Earlier within the present, Dwyane shared his unwavering help for his little one. “Me and my spouse Gabrielle Union are proud mother and father of a kid within the LGBTQ+ neighborhood. And we’re proud allies as nicely,” he stated.

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On June 30, 2020 — the final day of Pleasure Month — one in all former “The Actual Housewives of Orange County” star Heather Dubrow’s 4 youngsters, 16-year-old daughter Max (pictured, with blue hair), publicly got here out by way of an Instagram put up. “i all the time knew i used to be bi, i simply thought it was bipolar,” she captioned two Instagram photos of herself wrapped in a rainbow flag. Heather, who’s married to “Botched” star Dr. Terry Dubrow, reposted Max’s declaration with a message of help: “I like you my stunning, hilarious, superb little one! I’m SO proud to be your Mom ! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈.”

In Could 2020, music star Sia revealed that in 2019, she’d quietly adopted two sons who have been getting older out of the foster care system. A month later in June 2020 throughout an interview with DJ Zane Lowe on his Apple Music podcast, Sia shared that one in all her sons, who was reportedly 19 on the time, was a member of the LGBTQ neighborhood. He “just lately got here out” as homosexual, she stated, as reported by Each day Mail Australia, including, “He is simply blossoming and is the sunshine of my life… I like him a lot.”

On June 15, 2020 — the identical day the Supreme Court ruled {that a} landmark civil rights legislation protects homosexual and transgender employees from office discrimination — “The Strolling Useless” actor Khary Payton took to Instagram to publicly share that his son is trans. “This my child. One of the crucial blissful, well-adjusted people I’ve ever recognized. My son, Karter. Karter with a Ok as a result of it reminded him of my title. He selected it. You see, he was born feminine however has all the time recognized as a boy,” the actor wrote on Instagram of 11-year-old Karter. “He thought it will be cool if I introduced it on social media. I instructed him that there can be so many supporters but additionally quite a lot of jerks who can be harsh. He stated, ‘Yeah, I learn about trolls, daddy. I can deal with trolls.’ Man, there’s nothing extra stunning than watching your little one really feel the enjoyment of exploring what it means to be true to themselves. That is his journey, and I’m right here for it. I hope you all have the chance to really feel the unquenchable love that I’m feeling proper now.”

On the Nov. 10, 2019, episode of “The Actual Housewives of Atlanta,” Cynthia Bailey’s daughter Noelle Robinson, whose dad is actor Leon Robinson, got here out as sexually fluid. “Folks attempt to field everybody in and put labels on every thing, however I do not actually try this,” Noelle, who started exploring her sexuality throughout her freshman yr at Howard College, instructed her mother throughout an emotional dialog. “I similar to who I like, and that is simply what it’s. There’s quite a lot of enticing guys, and there is quite a lot of enticing ladies.” Cynthia made it clear she helps her daughter. “I simply need you to be blissful, Noelle,” the “RHOA” star stated, as reported by People journal. “Should you meet an incredible younger girl, that is a blessing. Should you meet an incredible younger man, that is a blessing. So long as they’re good folks and so they love and help you.”

Tori Spelling’s husband, actor and actuality TV star Dean McDermott, praised his eldest little one, son Jack McDermott — whose mother is Dean’s first spouse, actress and sweetness knowledgeable Mary Jo Eustace — on the July 1, 2019, episode of his “Daddy Points” podcast. “My son Jack is homosexual… he is this stunning, 6-foot-4, stunning Adonis,” Dean stated of his son, who got here out at 17 and is now learning graphic design at San Francisco College. “He is only a beautiful child.”

“Intercourse and the Metropolis” star-turned-politician Cynthia Nixon shared her love for son Seph, who’s transgender, in a June 22, 2018, Instagram put up celebrating her kid’s commencement from the College of Chicago. “I am so pleased with my son Samuel Joseph Mozes (known as Seph) who graduated school this month,” Cynthia wrote. “I salute him and everybody else marking at the moment’s #TransDayofAction. #TDOA.” Seph, who was born Samantha in 1996, is one in all two kids Cynthia had with former accomplice Danny Mozes. She additionally has a 3rd little one, Max, with spouse Christine Marinoni. “I am very pleased with him,” she instructed Us Weekly in April 2019 of Seph, including that her eldest nonetheless lives in Chicago the place he is “making a life within the theater.” Cynthia added that when she first publicly shared Seph’s new gender identification in 2018, “There was some basic, , voicings of help however usually it was not an enormous deal. I used to be form of shocked at what a non-event it was, which is simply how far we have are available such a brief period of time.”

When Charlize Theron adopted her first little one, Jackson, in 2012, she launched her child to the world as boy. “I assumed she was a boy too,” Charlize instructed the Daily Mail in April 2019, “till she checked out me when she was 3 years outdated and stated, ‘I’m not a boy!'” Charlize can also be a mother to daughter August, whom she adopted in 2015. “So there you go! I’ve two stunning daughters who, similar to any father or mother, I need to defend and I need to see thrive. They have been born who they’re and precisely the place on the planet each of them get to search out themselves as they develop up, and who they need to be, is just not for me to resolve,” Charlize added. “My job as a father or mother is to have fun them and to like them and to guarantee that they’ve every thing they want so as to be what they need to be. And I’ll do every thing in my energy for my youngsters to have that proper and to be protected inside that.” Within the weeks that adopted, the South African actress continued to publicly help Jackson’s gender identification, stating on Graham Norton’s U.Ok. discuss present that she is “elevating two stunning, proud black African ladies.” Days later, Charlize used the pronoun “she” whereas speaking about her eldest on “The Tonight Present With Jimmy Fallon.”

“Easy Operator” singer Sade’s solely little one, son Izaak Theo Adu — who got here out as transgender in 2016 — posted a heartwarming be aware of because of his mom on Instagram on Sept. 25, 2019, as he celebrated a profitable gender reassignment surgical procedure. “It has been a protracted exhausting street however We did it!! We’re coming dwelling!!!!” Isaak — who was born Mickailia to Sade and now-ex Bob Morgan, a Jamaican music producer, in 1996 — wrote alongside a photo of himself hugging his mother. “Thanks for staying by my aspect these previous 6 months Mumma. Thanks for preventing with me to finish the person I’m. Thanks to your encouragement when issues are exhausting, for the love you give me. The purest coronary heart. I like you a lot. Queen of queens ♥️ #mumma #lioness #queen #iloveyou.”

Marlon Wayans publicly supported his daughter, Amai, who identifies as a member of the LGBTQ neighborhood, in an Instagram put up in June 2019. “Blissful delight 🌈 to my delight and pleasure,” he captioned a photograph of his daughter rocking rainbow sneakers. “I would not change one effing factor about you. Love you to the moon across the solar via the galaxies and again once more.”

Simply days after his spouse and music accomplice, Joey Feek, died in 2016 after a brutal battle with cervical cancer, nation music star Rory Feek realized that his daughter from a earlier marriage, Hopie, is a lesbian. She instructed him that her pal Wendy — who’s now her spouse — “was greater than her pal, that Wendy and her had been courting for nearly a yr. And that she was in love,” Rory instructed “CBS This Morning” journalist Anthony Mason in an interview that aired on June 17, 2018 — Father’s Day. Hopie, who additionally sat down for the interview (she and her dad are on the suitable in this photo, subsequent to her sister Heidi), revealed she was afraid her deeply non secular father would decide her. “Much more than that, she’s asking me, ‘Are you continue to going to like me?’ And my first response, truthfully, was I do not suppose so… as a result of my conservative Christian religion that saved me — the primary response is that challenges that immensely,” Rory admitted, including, “Am I purported to shun my little one now and say, ‘No, you may’t be in my life till you come round to pondering like I am pondering?'” Hopie understood her dad was struggling along with her revelation, however within the interview, he made it clear that he accepts his daughter. “The one factor I strive to bear in mind is it is her life, it is her alternative, it is her religion and my job is to like her even when it is exhausting and even after I do not agree or even when I do not perceive,” Rory defined. “I nonetheless love her. I can nonetheless love her fully.” Rory was there when Hopie married Wendy on his household farm in October 2018.

In 2012 when Sam Greisman, Sally Field‘s writer-producer son with second husband Alan Greisman, introduced his mom with the Ally for Equality Award on the Human Rights Marketing campaign Gala, he praised her with humor. “Once I got here out, she did not bat an eye fixed,” he stated. “In reality, she was overjoyed. Being homosexual was only one other thing she cherished about me. She could not be extra supportive of me; if something, I want she was a little bit much less supportive of me.” Living proof: In early 2018, Sally made headlines when she publicly tried to set up Sam along with his Winter Olympics crush, figure skater Adam Rippon. (“Sam was mortified,” she later admitted to Buzzfeed.) Although Sally may typically embarrass her youngest little one, in 2016, the Oscar winner gushed about him in an interview with EW Radio. “What horrifies me is that there are mother and father who so disapprove, who’re so brainwashed to suppose that that is one thing out of the Bible or ungodly or towards nature. It isn’t towards nature if nature has truly finished this,” she stated. “Sam was all the time Sam, this glorious human that he’s, from the time he was born.”

Oscar- and Tony-winning actress Marcia Homosexual Harden is a mom of three with ex-husband Thaddaeus Scheel. Eldest Eulala is in school whereas twins Julitta and Hudson (seen right here) are teenagers. Hudson — a proficient make-up artist who exhibits off his work on Instagram — is homosexual, Marcia publicly revealed in 2018 shortly earlier than his 14th birthday. After attending the Household Equality Council’s Influence Awards — the nonprofit advocates for LGBTQ clans by fostering a way of neighborhood and driving coverage change — Marcia instructed Us Weekly that “the trigger is expensive to me,” explaining, “my son is homosexual. I simply need to be certain that he will get to have a household when he desires one.”

Entertainer Marie Osmond, a mom of eight, and second husband Brian Blosil adopted daughter Jessica within the late ’80s. In 2009, Marie confirmed studies that her daughter is a lesbian and described Jessica as “a powerful lady.” In 2012, Marie took to Fb to reward Jessica when she started a profession as a cop, writing, “So pleased with my oldest daughter, Jes. She simply handed her police officer certification exams for emergency medical and defensive tactic coaching. All 5 ft of her! Like it.” In 2013, Marie — who some followers anticipated to be unsupportive as a result of she’s a practising Mormon — mentioned her religion and her help for her daughter in an interview with Diane Sawyer. “The God that I imagine in is a god of affection, not worry,” Marie defined, including that she helps equal rights for LGBTQ folks. “I imagine in [my daughter’s] civil rights, as a mom. I feel that my daughter deserves every thing that she needs in life. She’s a great lady. She’s an exquisite little one… I do not suppose God made one shade flower. I feel He made many.”

Barbra Streisand and first husband Elliott Gould’s solely little one collectively, actor-singer Jason Gould, was outed as a homosexual man by the tabloids within the early ’90s. In a 2001 interview with The Advocate, he mentioned his sexual orientation himself, revealing he is recognized he was homosexual since he was 8. He additionally talked about among the difficulties which have include being the kid of somebody as well-known as Barbra, a beloved homosexual icon. At this time, he stays near each of his well-known mother and father.

In 2016 in his first in-depth interview in 25 years, Oscar winner Warren Beatty mentioned his transgender activist son, Stephen Ira — who began transitioning at age 14 — publicly for the primary time. “He is a revolutionary, a genius, and my hero, as are all my kids,” Warren instructed Self-importance Honest. Stephen — the eldest little one of Warren and spouse Annette Bening — was born Kathlyn in 1992. Annette has additionally spoken publicly of her help for her son. “I am super-proud of him,” she instructed The Observer in 2017. “I depart it to him to say what he desires about his life. I do not suppose it is honest for me to talk for any of my youngsters, fairly frankly. Not that I would not wish to!”

R&B star R. Kelly has three youngsters with ex-wife Drea Kelly, a dancer-turned-reality TV star followers know from “Hollywood Exes.” In a collection of 2014 posts on Ask.fm, their then-13-year-old center little one, who was born Jaya, revealed a brand new title: Jay. He defined that although born feminine, he’d recognized as male since age 6 or 7. “I got here out via a textual content to my [mom] after which I instructed her after I received extra comfy,” Jay defined. “I instructed her as a result of I knew she would love me it doesn’t matter what, she has not as soon as judged me in life. She all the time instructed me that she cherished me and to be who I really am.” The teenager additionally admitted he was “form of” scared to inform his well-known father as a result of they’d an advanced relationship, although he felt the singer “most likely does know.” Nonetheless, just a few weeks later, R. Kelly appeared to disclaim his transgender son’s statements, telling a radio station, “You do not actually wanna open it up by saying my daughter is turning into my son. You already know what I am saying? … All the time imagine what you see, with your individual eyes, that’s. All the time imagine what you see. That is the easiest way to go about this enterprise. I’ve heard quite a lot of issues about lots of people, and it was by no means true.” However later within the interview, he voiced help for all his youngsters, saying, “It doesn’t matter what they’re or who they’re, they’re nonetheless your youngsters, you like them, ? You have to help them. You need to help them. … On the finish of the day it is not about me no extra. It is about three beautiful, beautiful youngsters that I’m in love with and that is in love with me.”

The Go-Go’s singer Belinda Carlisle’s solely little one, James Duke Mason, got here out to her when he was 14. “Most of my mates since highschool have been homosexual or lesbian… so I used to be all the time conscious of points. However I feel when you could have a son or a daughter or a relative or [someone] familial, it brings it even nearer to dwelling,” she instructed the Desert Solar in 2017. “The very first thing I considered is what sort of world is he going to need to battle with. It is quite a bit more durable for LGBTQ folks than it’s for straight folks, simply usually.” However she and husband Morgan Mason embraced their son, who’s now in his mid-20s and serves as a co-chair of the West Hollywood Homosexual and Lesbian Advisory board.

Journalist Ronan Farrow, the son of stars Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, publicly recognized as a member of the LGBTQ neighborhood for the primary time in April 2018, although widespread studies about his sexuality — some have stated he is bisexual, others have reported he is homosexual — have been round for years. Whereas accepting an award for LGBT advocacy from the Level Basis on April 9, Ronan — who wrote among the most high-profile tales exposing sexual misconduct in Hollywood, significantly about producer Harvey Weinstein’s dangerous habits, in late 2017 — stated, “Being part of the LGBT neighborhood… which acknowledged that reporting I used to be doing early on and elevated it, and has been such a stalwart supply of help via the sexual assault reporting I did involving survivors who felt equally invisible… that has been an unbelievable supply of power for me. LGBT individuals are among the bravest and most potent change brokers and leaders I’ve encountered, and probably the most forceful defenders of the weak and unvoiced, as a result of they know what it is wish to be there.” Ronan is extremely near his mom and has been estranged from his father for years.

NBA legend-turned-businessman Magic Johnson and spouse Cookie have all the time supported their son, actuality TV star E.J. Johnson, who was outed as a homosexual man in 2013. “I feel it is all about you not making an attempt to resolve what your daughter or son must be, or what you need them to grow to be. It is all about loving them regardless of who they’re, what they resolve to do. And when my son got here out, I used to be so blissful for him, and blissful for us as mother and father — and we love him, and E.J. is superb,” Magic stated on “The Ellen DeGeneres Present” in 2017. “So you have to help your little one as a result of there are such a lot of individuals who attempt to discriminate towards them, so that they want you to help them. As a result of when you do not help them, who’s going to help them and love them?”

Ally Sheedy’s solely little one with actor ex-husband David Lansbury, Beckett Lansbury, graduated from Bard School in 2016 and is now attending graduate college whereas working within the school’s Workplace of Gender Fairness. Beckett — born Rebecca — can also be a transgender activist. “He had been figuring out as gender queer and gender fluid and now he was saying he actually feels that he identifies with being male and that the hormones have been going to assist him on his journey. I simply received, I did not have a judgment name on Beck himself, I used to be simply afraid. I used to be actually afraid of the entire [transition] course of,” Ally defined on the “Growth! Lawyered” podcast in 2017, describing her emotions when she first realized that Beck was going to start out taking hormones to help his transition. “I wanted two issues. I wanted him to teach me in a really affected person, loving approach, not really feel like I used to be making judgements simply because I did not perceive. And in addition I wanted to grasp, I needed to educate myself about what the hell the hormones have been and what was going to occur.” Ally — whose mother is lesbian civil-rights activist Charlotte Sheedy — later added, “I simply love Beck, so I needed to help — I’ve all the time needed to help Beck on regardless of the specific journey is.”

“The L Phrase” alum Clementine Ford, the daughter of actress Cybill Shepherd and first husband David M. Ford, got here out in 2009. “I am homosexual,” she instructed The Advocate. In more moderen years, Clementine — who dated singer-songwriter Linda Perry within the late aughts — was branded bisexual after she married actor Cyrus Wilcox, with whom she has two youngsters, in 2013, although in 2017, Clementine defined on Twitter, “I’m a queer lady.” In 2010, Cybill’s different daughter (with second husband Bruce Oppenheim, a chiropractor), Yale-educated TV writer-director Ariel Shepherd-Oppenheim, attended the Homosexual & Lesbian Alliance Towards Defamation (GLAAD) Media Awards in San Francisco along with her girlfriend. Cybill has famously supported marriage equality and same-sex parental rights for years.

In 2015, Sting and Trudie Styler’s third little one, musician Eliot Pauline “Coco” Sumner, who dates ladies, publicly mentioned her sexuality for the primary time. “Nobody had ever requested,” Coco instructed the Night Commonplace when a reporter inquired about whether or not family and friends had queried. “They knew already, so I did not must. I’ve by no means come out to anybody. My mates all the time knew and I all the time knew.” Coco responded “no” when requested if she recognized with a specific gender and defined that she defines herself as only a “musician,” including “I do not imagine in any specs.” On the time, Coco had been courting mannequin Lucie Von Alten for 2 years. In April 2018, Coco was photographed kissing Mark Ronson’s ex-wife, Josephine de La Baume, throughout an outing in Paris. “I feel without end I used to be making an attempt to determine possibly… what I’m. However I do not suppose anybody ought to really feel pressured to have any form of label or tag on them. We’re all human beings,” Coco added within the Night Commonplace interview. Throughout a March 2018 look on Britain’s “Lorraine” present, Trudie — who was selling her directorial debut, the comedy “Freak Present,” which is about an unconventional teenage boy who prefers fabulous ladies’s clothes over masculine apparel — was requested about Coco. “She identifies as a musician,” Trudie stated, “and the dialog ought to finish there.”

Cher and the late Sonny Bono’s solely little one collectively, Chaz Bono (born Chastity), publicly self-identified as a lesbian in 1995 after having come out privately as a teen and shortly started a profession as one of the high-profile and vocal LGBTQ advocates on the planet. In 2010, Chaz legally modified his gender and title following a two-year transition course of throughout which he went from feminine to male. A yr later, he launched the documentary “Changing into Chaz,” which documented his life change. “I used to be actually supportive as we had talked about it over time. However I admit it was troublesome at first. It was exhausting for a mom. I had this one little one and I used to be ready for the brand new little one,” Cher instructed the Mirror in 2013. Whereas she admitted that she does miss Chaz’s outdated voice, “The loss I assumed I used to be going to really feel, I do not really feel one iota,” Cher added.

NBA Corridor of Famer Isiah Thomas’s son Zeke Thomas, a profitable DJ, is homosexual. “I got here out in 2008, my sophomore yr at school. My mother and father wish to say they all the time knew I used to be homosexual. I got here out to them, and so they have been very accepting. I all the time knew they might be accepting,” Zeke instructed Out in 2013. “Rising up, I had homosexual uncles, like each child in America. I by no means was so scared that my mother and father have been going to shun or disown me — the horror tales you hear. I used to be simply nervous about, ‘Are my mates gonna settle for me?’ as a result of I used to be a jock child, so to talk, with an athlete father.” In 2010, the previous Detroit Pistons level guard confirmed help for Zeke when he posed alongside his son for the NOH8 Marketing campaign opposing California’s earlier ban on homosexual marriage.

Journalist Anderson Cooper, who got here out publicly in 2012, instructed his mom, famed designer and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, that he was homosexual when he was 21. Years later, the pair wrote a joint memoir, “The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mom and Son Discuss About Life, Love, and Loss.” Whereas speaking to Folks journal to advertise the 2016 e book, Gloria — who handed away in 2019 — praised her son. “It took [a] nice braveness so that you can speak in confidence to me,” she instructed Anderson, whose father was her late fourth husband, creator Wyatt Emory Cooper. “I hope that I’m greater than ‘OK’ with it; I rejoice that you’re homosexual! It is a part of what makes you the particular person you’re.” He instructed his mother, “I knew that after you bought over your preliminary shock that you’d be supportive.”

Etta Ng is the daughter of motion star Jackie Chan and former magnificence queen Elaine Ng, with whom he had an affair whereas married to present spouse Joan Lin. Etta as soon as instructed the Specific that her father “by no means existed in my life” and that “I’ll by no means regard him as a father” as a result of he was not concerned in elevating her. In October 2017, Etta, then 17, got here out as a lesbian, sharing photographs on social media of herself along with her girlfriend, Canadian social media influencer Andi Autumn. “I’m in awe on the quantity of help and love poured my approach,” Etta wrote on Instagram afterward. “I’m speechless at how followers went to my Girlfriend @andiautumn and my account to point out us each a lot positivity.” Reviews reveal that Elaine has been accepting of Etta’s information, whereas Jackie reportedly stated, “If she likes it, that is fantastic,” when he was requested about Etta whereas he was doing press to advertise his movie “The Foreigner.” Etta and Andi married in 2018.