One of many tradition’s most identifiable voices resides his reality publicly. Khalid has come out as homosexual after he says somebody outed him.
As noticed on Vulture, the El Paso, Tex., native gave the world extra perception on his non-public life. On Friday (Nov. 22), he took to X, previously Twitter, and made the very shocking announcement in a really quick however highly effective submit. “🏳️🌈!!! there yall go. subsequent subject please lol,” he wrote.
Naturally, the information took a few of his followers abruptly prompting him to double down on his earlier reveal. “I’m! And that’s okay,” he responded to at least one consumer. He would go on to allude somebody he had relations with up to now had began disclosing his sexual desire with out his consent. “I acquired outed and the world nonetheless continues to show. Let’s get this straight (lmao) I’m not ashamed of my sexuality! In actuality it ain’t nobodies enterprise! However I’m okay with me 🖤 love yall.”
🏳️🌈!!!
there yall go. subsequent subject please lol
— Khalid (@thegreatkhalid) November 22, 2024
Even then he was pressed on-line with questions on why he selected to cover his reality. Afterward he clarified that he was not “hiding” something. Inside that very same hour the sleuth group was capable of id the person who they suspected outed Khalid as singer Hugo D Almonte. In a sequence of now since-deleted posts he had alluded to relationship a “dumb a*s singer” who accused of him breaking into their residence. In a following submit he wrote, “B*tch a*s 🥷🏾 lied and mentioned that I broke into his home trigger I didn’t need him,” with an accompanying selfie of him with Khalid.
I acquired outed and the world nonetheless continues to show. Let’s get this straight (lmao) I’m not ashamed of my sexuality! In actuality it ain’t nobodies enterprise! However I’m okay with me 🖤 love yall
— Khalid (@thegreatkhalid) November 23, 2024
The performer defined his actions in an unique e-mail assertion to Vulture. “[It’s] actually humorous the way it works as a result of my intentions was by no means to out somebody who’s clearly been out already in the neighborhood in Los Angeles,” he wrote. “My intentions was to share my story and share how he tried to make use of his energy to silence me as a result of I merely ended our relationship, he was afraid of what I would say.”
I wasn’t hiding something! It’s simply not any of your corporation https://t.co/jAW9f7I5oO
— Khalid (@thegreatkhalid) November 23, 2024
Almonte went on to share that he has since confronted criticism and even dying threats. “All I’ve discovered from that is by no means permit anybody to silence me, it’s loopy that these folks mentioned I used to be chasing clout, once I was holding onto this for 5 years, and I lastly had sufficient,” he concluded. Almonte later say that he “would do it time and again and once more the identical manner” in one other since-deleted submit.
