Kehlani revealed she's a lesbian during an Instagram live

• Kehlani came out as a lesbian during a friend's Instagram live over the weekend. 
• The singer previously identified as pansexual and has been open about her sexuality for years.
• "You wanna know what's new about me? I finally know I'm a lesbian," she said on April 5. 

Kehlani came out as a lesbian over the weekend during a friend's Instagram Live.

"You wanna know what's new about me? I finally know I'm a lesbian," she said during photograph Jamie-Lee B's Easter live stream.

The singer and queer icon, who uses she/they pronouns, has always been open about being a member of the LGBTQ community and previously told Nylon she identified as pansexual. In 2020, she told Diva Magazine she identifies somewhere along the non-binary gender spectrum and changed the pronouns in her social media bios to she/they. 

Fans took to Twitter to voice their support of Kehlani's coming out, saying the representation from such a big artist is important. 

"Not only is Kehlani a lesbian, they're a she/they lesbian. Y'all don't understand how seen I feel. Her music and lyrics I've always related to and ik now I'm just gonna connect even more," one fan wrote on Twitter. 

Kehlani recently explained while she has always been an openly queer artist, she has "cisgender-presenting, straight-presenting" privilege during an interview with the Advocate published on April 6. 

"I have a lot of privilege," Kehlani told the publication. "I think a lot of artists who we talk about and say, 'Oh, they had to come out or they had to do this,' a lot of them can't hide it. A lot of it is very [much] in how they present. It's tougher for trans artists. It's tougher for Black gay men. It's tougher for Black masculine gay women."

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