Is keiynan lonsdale gay

Keiynan Lonsdale, The Flash star, came out as queer through one of his Instagram posts and owned his sexuality with pride. So then being able to mentor a younger gay person on "Love, Victor" and remind him that there's no one way to be LGBTQ, what did that feel like for you?

There is no one way, and as much as we like to paint people with the same brush, it's just not how it works. In quarantine, Lonsdale has been able to "take stock of the album release, the state of the world…" He laughs again. The Nigerian-Australian actor, a dancer, and a songwriter is known for his significant roles in The Flash, Dance Academy, and Legends of Tomorrow.

And for good reason. Lonsdale says he had to come to terms with his own sexuality before he felt comfortable enough to tell others. There was definitely one moment; it was three years exactly before I released it, where I had this realization that the best way for me to create would be to hold absolutely nothing back.

Keiynan Lonsdale has been starring in teen dramas and covertly making slow jams for years. Going back to the fear you said you felt when you were younger, before you came out: How much of that had to do with you being a Black queer person?

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The songs were written, for the most part, pretty easily. Before that I would say that I spent a lot of time trying to be like others, but always wanting to have the gall to be able to be my own person. Now, with his new single 'Rainbow Dragon', he's showing that he's got a vision for who he's going to.

Yeah, I was percent feeling just as defiant. But it felt kind of like a spell was broken, and I was like, "I can say this shit, I can sing this shit. At one point, the phone rang. It was great to be able to play a role that could share that knowledge, because it's something that I think each of us have needed to hear at one time: that you are still the one that gets to define who you are.

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I realized I was in control of the songs that I would write, and it would be a matter of what the writing led with, or staying in this sort of fear mindset that I had my whole life. And I think the momentum kept building, because I hadn't felt that empowered to be able to write and make music that was so unapologetic.

In the series, the year-old Aussie star reprises his role as quiet high-schooler Bram and becomes instrumental in Victor's journey to authenticity. When I recently connected with Lonsdale during a Zoom call, he was riding out the last two days of his mandatory day quarantine in a hotel in Australia.

And with a shout out to "my non-binary bitches," "White Noise" and its buoyant groove lifts the stories of Black people that have fallen through the cracks. I'm glad that's the route they went with with the lead character. Once Keiynan Lonsdale made no apologies for who he is, the music followed suit.

And then it rang again. So I think it sends an important message. So it was nice to have that spell broken. Were you feeling as defiant as the music on this album when you recorded it, or was it a personal manifestation? But I didn't know what that meant.

“It felt like people were deciding for me,” he says. It felt really, really ripe. There was so much that was ready to be expressed.