Renee rap gay

"We are too close to pride month for you to piss me off like that. And I also really want to call myself a lesbian when I’m around you,’” she said. “You can’t throw a rock and not hit an open queer, lesbian relationship in Brooklyn,” she jokes. “It’s so animalistic,” she explains, referring to the barking trend.

That is the reason why. This much was clear at a live performance at the Nice Guy in Los Angeles just weeks before her album release — an eruption of playful but thunderous howls that felt more like a rowdy sports arena than an intimate performance. 

“The reason I think it’s kind of fun is I grew up going to football and basketball games,” says the Charlotte, NC native, “and that’s such an American sports thing to do.

“So many of my friends get involved in relationships that are either open or poly and then end up being like, ‘Oh my God, wait, I can’t do this.’”

She is also keenly aware of the gaps in LGBTQ+ representation in pop. She recalled, “I didn’t want to do it and be like, ‘Oh my God, I’m not using the word ‘bisexual,’ and make bisexual people feel s—ty.

Don't fucking play in my face about that."

Reneé went on to reveal that when she has kids, she won't tolerate anyone being an "asshole" to her children if they were figuring out their sexuality as well. “I am not a pop girl,” she says. Rapp sat down for a recent interview with Them, where she opened up about accepting her identity as a lesbian.

Sexuality isn't always as black and white as people may think. I wasn’t making [this album] to impress anyone else. It is special. I'm not playing about that. “And even then, it’s pretty scarce.”

Rapp discovered her love of performing as a child in Charlotte, NC. Her first major splash was on Broadway in 2019 when she starred as Regina George in the “Mean Girls” musical, a role she reprised for last year’s musical film adaptation.

I grew up in the South, where you don't do that."

Reneé then admitted that she felt like she "had to be bisexual" because it was more digestible and acceptable for others if she still assumed a "closeness" to heterosexuality and men.

"I felt like for so long I had to be bisexual because I had to assume closeness to a sexuality that could lead to being with a man," she continued.

“Everything inherently that I do is lesbianism,” she says. “Because when I was with men, it wasn’t like I just wasn’t gay at that point. I made it to impress myself.”.

There’s a comedic edge to the way Rapp delivers a line, even when she strays into territory that could get most stars side-eyed — or worse, like in her now-infamous interview with Ziwe where she casually joked about prison stabbings.

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Before January 2024, Reneé Rapp publicly identified as bisexual.