Singer Khalid addresses sexuality speculation after being ‘outed’

Music prima Khalid has travel retired arsenic gay aft being outed by different man.

The 26-year-old vocalist is known for tunes including Young Dumb & Broke and Better. He roseate to fame successful 2016 with the merchandise of his debut single, Location, and has gone connected to merchantability millions of records, having besides been nominated for six Grammys.

Despite collaborating with high-profile artists specified arsenic Halsey and Benny Blanco, and having implicit 4.6million followers connected X, Khalid is famously backstage erstwhile it comes to his romances.

However, the hitmaker felt compelled to code speculation astir his sexuality this play aft chap creator Hugo D Almonte posted a representation of them together.

The Dominican American rapper and vocalist besides divulged explicit details of an alleged intersexual liaison betwixt them.

Taking to societal media amid the swirling rumours, Khalid posted a rainbow Pride emblem emoji, adding: ‘there yall go. adjacent taxable delight lol [sic]’.

The past responded to a instrumentality who asked if helium is gay, penning simply: ‘I am! And that’s okay’.

In a further post, Khalid insisted helium is arrogant of who helium is and however helium identifies.

‘I got outted and the satellite inactive continues to turn. Let’s get this consecutive (lmao) I americium not ashamed of my sexuality!’, helium declared.

‘In world it ain’t nobodies business! But I americium good with me’, Khalid added, signing disconnected with: ‘love yall’.

Another instrumentality jokingly told Khalid that the ‘closet was glass’, a operation utilized to suggest that it was evident helium was portion of the LGBTQ+ community.

‘I wasn’t hiding anything! It’s conscionable not immoderate of your business’, Khalid wrote back.

One follower besides shared a clip of Khalid performing his 2022 way Satellite, branding it an ‘LGBTQ+ anthem’.

Khalid wrote sweetly: ‘thank you!!!! I was ne'er hiding’.

The prima was met with an outpouring of emotion aft the affectional tweets, urging others to instrumentality enactment of his nonchalant cognition to sexuality.

User glossiertroye wrote: ‘in the large twelvemonth of 2024 let’s possibly halt assuming people’s sexualities!!! & being weird. you archer em king’.

‘SO REAL. consecutive radical don’t person to denote they’re consecutive truthful wherefore should WE person to denote we’re queer????’, said itslitrllymine.

Apologising, takecarehours added lovingly: ‘but you should’ve been capable to archer the satellite connected your ain time. i’m atrocious radical are clout chasers’.

Khalid besides received enactment from queer British vocalist and shaper MNEK, who slammed Almonte, branding him a ‘loser’.

In his archetypal posts, the 28-year-old instrumentalist stunned his followers by sharing: ‘one of your favourite cheery R&B singers suck my d**k and it was truly bad.’

He besides branded Khalid a ‘dumb a** singer’ who is ‘ugly arsenic f**k’, claiming Khalid tried to ‘set [him] up’ by lying that helium broke into his house.

When asked for comment, Almonte defended himself, telling Vulture that his intentions were ‘never to retired idiosyncratic who’s intelligibly been retired already successful the assemblage successful Los Angeles’.

Khalid burst onto the euphony country portion helium was inactive a precocious schoolhouse elder arsenic helium self-released his debut single.

Just 1 twelvemonth later, helium had earned 5 Grammy noms aft his debut album, American Teen, boasted songwriting credits for him connected each track.

He’s besides collaborated with artists successful some the R&B genre and others, specified arsenic Justin Bieber, Billie Eilish, Normani, Ed Sheeran, and Marshmello.

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