After the progress and openness that the LGTBIQ+ community has had, it is becoming more and more common for people and even celebrities to have more freedom to declare themselves more openly regarding their sexuality and gender identity, since the fear of being judged is minor.
Sam Smith is one of the singers who, since admitting to identifying as a non-binary trans person in 2019, has used his personal Twitter account to confirm his inclination towards the gender, as well as to ask others to refer to him with the neuter pronoun “elle”, instead of “him”. However, recently, the 30-year-old Brit spoke about how his life and style have changed by coming out as non-binary.
During an interview for the British magazine GQ, Smith said that he always identified with that genre and that perhaps all the people with whom he was romantically related already knew it. In addition, he assured that his whole life was in constant war with his body and mind, since he felt that she was a woman but had to dress as a man.
But I don’t think that’s it. When I saw the words non-binary and ‘genderqueer,’ I read more about it and when I heard one person speak, I was like, ‘This is my thing.’
Later, Sam He confessed that for years there were those who, because of his way of dressing and acting, believed that he was gay, an identity with which “elle” never felt affinity, since he always knew that he belonged neither to the masculine nor to the feminine gender.
For the first five years of my career, I felt like I was a woman, dressing in men’s clothing.
Regarding the impact that being non-binary had on his musical career, Sam Smith said that there are those who have told him that since he declared his sexuality, his music has become weirder, something that “elle” interpreter of I’m Not the Only One she answers that it is still the same, since all her songs have always spoken and she has composed them to all the men she has fallen in love with.
They have always been rare. And I don’t enjoy the fact that because it’s ‘queer’ it has to be ‘dance’ music. I think ‘queer’ music can be ‘country’, ‘folk’, ‘jazz’, it can be anything. ‘In the Lonely Hour’ [su álbum debut]was and is ‘queer’.