It’s been a major year for the LGBT community, from trans visibility on television to marriage equality at the Supreme Court.
As 2015 draws to a close, we are looking back at 15 major personalities who came out over the past 12 months.
1
Jussie Smollett
In March Empire heartthrob Jussie Smollett confirmed that he was gay to Ellen DeGeneres, saying, “there’s never been a closet that I’ve been in.”
Smollett added that, though he wasn’t interested in exposing his private life, he wanted to make a statement “so that people understood that they’re not alone.”
In a case of art imitating life, Smollet’s Empire character, Jamal Lyon, also had a coming out this year, though arguably in a much showier fashion.
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