Dove Cameron Comes Out as Queer Publicly

"I've hinted about my sexuality for years while being afraid to spell it out for everybody," she continued. "I did a lyric video last year, for 'We Belong.' It had moving line drawings of people falling in love… It was all a man and a woman making out and it was a weird moment for me."

“I was at the end of a very big chapter closing in my life and I was struggling to focus on myself, so when [my] relationship ended, I was having a hard time stepping back into my power and focusing on where I was,” Cameron explained.

Cameron previously went on Instagram Live and told her fans that she was queer and said that she wanted to represent her authentic self through her music. She noted that "it wasn't a big announcement. It was never something I really dove into. It was like here I am and here I always have been."

"It felt like something that I could never talk about. I feel like the industry has changed a lot in terms of having room for people with platforms to be human and not to be picked apart. I was really nervous to come out and, one day, I dropped it because I was behaving like somebody who was out and I realized I wasn't. When you are who you are, you assume people see that and then you realize, 'No, I have to come out otherwise people aren't gonna know,'" she concluded.

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