Troye Sivan

Troye Sivan is a gay Australian singer, songwriter, and actor who has been openly gay since he came out on YouTube in 2013 at age 18 -- a coming-out video that went viral and made him an instant icon for queer teenagers discovering their own identities. Sivan built a music career rooted in candid, emotionally specific queer experience: his EP TRXYE (2014) and full albums Blue Neighbourhood (2015), Bloom (2018), and Something to Give Each Other (2023) are among the most celebrated explicitly gay pop albums of their era, with Bloom and its frank celebration of gay sexual experience receiving particular attention. As an actor, he has brought his lived experience to queer roles: he played a gay teenager undergoing conversion therapy in Joel Edgerton's Boy Erased (2018) opposite Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe, and led Three Months (2022), playing a Florida teen exposed to HIV who falls in love while waiting out the virus's testing window. He also starred in HBO's The Idol (2023). Sivan's openness about being gay, his advocacy for LGBTQ+ youth, and his explicitly queer artistic output have made him one of the most influential gay artists of his generation.