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Hollywood’s conversation about gender identity just got a lot more public, and a lot more mainstream.

Coming out as non-binary used to be a niche disclosure buried in an indie interview. In 2021, it’s a podcast headline. Nicki Swift’s rundown of “Celebs Who Identify As Non-Binary” tracks the public figures across music, film and television who’ve stepped outside “he” or “she” entirely, and the timeline stretches back further than most people realize.

• Demi Lovato came out as non-binary in May 2021 on their own podcast, “4D with Demi Lovato,” and announced they’d be using they/them pronouns going forward.
• Sam Smith came out as genderqueer and non-binary back in 2019 during an interview on Jameela Jamil’s “I Weigh,” describing their identity as sitting in the middle of the gender spectrum.
• Asia Kate Dillon became one of the first openly non-binary actors to play a non-binary character on screen, first as Taylor Mason on Showtime’s “Billions” and later as the Adjudicator in “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.”

Demi Lovato and Sam Smith Bring the Conversation Mainstream

Lovato’s announcement landed on their podcast rather than a red carpet, which is telling — it’s the format that’s become the go-to for celebrities explaining an identity shift on their own terms, without a reporter shaping the narrative for them. That approach traces back to Smith, whose 2019 sit-down with Jamil predates most of the current wave by two years and set the template other stars would later follow.

Smith has been candid about the years of confusion that preceded the announcement, telling Jamil they’d struggled for a long time with feeling like neither a man nor a woman. That framing — not rejecting gender, but existing between the two poles of it — shows up again and again in the stories the video profiles.

Sam Smith told Jameela Jamil they sit “in the middle” of the gender spectrum — not a man, not a woman, something else entirely.

Asia Kate Dillon and Jonathan Van Ness Break Ground On Screen

Dillon’s casting as Taylor Mason on “Billions” wasn’t just personal visibility — it was a scripted, ongoing non-binary character played by a non-binary actor on a flagship Showtime series, followed by a role as the Adjudicator opposite Keanu Reeves in “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.” Those two credits alone made Dillon one of the most consequential names on this list, precisely because the identity wasn’t confined to a talk-show confession — it made it onto the screen.

“Queer Eye” grooming expert Jonathan Van Ness came out as non-binary and gender non-conforming in 2019, using he/they/she pronouns and describing gender as an arbitrary social construct rather than something fixed. Van Ness’s disclosure ran on a similar track to Smith’s that same year, part of a stretch of 2019 announcements that predate the current 2021 surge covered elsewhere on this network’s rundown of controversial celebrity moments.

Sara Ramirez, Lachlan Watson and Miley Cyrus Round Out the List

Former “Grey’s Anatomy” star Sara Ramirez announced their non-binary identity publicly on social media in August 2020, a full nine months before Lovato’s podcast reveal. “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” actor Lachlan Watson is also featured, part of a younger generation of performers for whom coming out non-binary happened earlier in their careers rather than after years in the spotlight.

Miley Cyrus is the outlier on the timeline — she described herself as gender-fluid back in 2015, six years before Lovato’s announcement made headlines, putting her disclosure closer in spirit to the artists profiled in pieces like this network’s look at musicians who are nothing like they seem than to the 2021 wave she predates.

The video doesn’t rank these seven names by fame or by how loudly the announcement landed — it just lines them up chronologically, from Cyrus’s 2015 comments through Lovato’s May 2021 podcast episode, as a record of how fast the conversation moved in six years.