National Coming Out Day: 16 Celebrity Coming Out Stories
Sam Smith
Smith told Fader his debut album, “In the Lonely Hour,” “is about a guy that I fell in love with last year, and he didn’t love me back.” Smith opened up about his album this spring, according to Rolling Stone — revealing his sexuality and how he expressed it in his music, “It’s about a guy and that’s what I wanted people to know – I want to be clear that that’s what it’s about,” he said in the interview. He later added, “I want to make it a normality because this is a non-issue. People wouldn’t ask a straight person these questions. I’ve tried to be clever with this album, because it’s also important to me that my music reaches everybody. I’ve made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody – whether it’s a guy, a female or a goat – and everybody can relate to that.”
