Madonna posted a TikTok video that when once more has followers world wide speaking and speculating about her sexuality. The pop icon posted a video the place she makes an attempt to throw underwear right into a basket, with textual content that claims: "If I miss, I am homosexual." She then misses the basket.
The 64-year-old didn't elaborate on the video, which shortly went viral with almost 25 million views in in the future.
Madonna, whose actual identify is Madonna Louise Ciccone, has been open about her sexuality in her music and interviews for many years and is seen as a homosexual icon, typically advocating for the LGBTQ group all through her decadeslong profession. In 2019, she gained a GLAAD's Advocate for Change award.
Her profession started concurrently the HIV/AIDS epidemic within the Nineteen Eighties and she or he held a profit dance marathon, elevating cash for analysis of the illness that disproportionately affected the LGBTQ group, based on GLAAD. She additionally carried out at AIDS profit concert events.
In her 1989 "Like a Prayer" album, she included a leaflet with info about AIDS, to unfold consciousness.
She typically highlighted the LGBTQ group in her music, that includes a number of homosexual dancers in her 1991 documentary "Fact or Dare" and celebrating New York Metropolis's underground ballroom subculture with 1990's "Vogue."
She gained her first GLAAD Award for Elevating Homosexual Consciousness in 1991.
At one other GLAAD award ceremony in 2013, she dressed as a Boy Scout to protest the group's ban on LGBTQ individuals and she or he has used her platform to talk out in opposition to anti-LGBTQ insurance policies and bullying numerous occasions.
In 2012, Advocate journal wrote about Madonna's "almost 30 years as the best homosexual icon."
Some followers have been confused by the TikTok submit, one commenting: "Did Madonna simply come out? And I am witnessing it in actual time??" Many others have been supportive of the singer. "We're witnessing herstory," one individual commented.
Different individuals identified that Madonna has nodded to bisexuality many occasions all through her profession, however the first occasion is probably her 1990 music video for "Justify My Love" throughout which she kisses each women and men. She additionally highlighted intercourse and sexuality in her controversial 1990 espresso desk guide "Intercourse," which included nude sexual pictures and homosexual and lesbian imagery.
The singer has been married twice, to Sean Penn and Man Ritchie, with whom she has a son Rocco Ritchie, 22. She additionally shares a daughter with actor Carlos Leon, Lourdes Leon, 25. And she or he has 4 adopted youngsters: David Banda, 17, Mercy James, 16, and twins Stella and Estere Ciccone, 10. Her adopted youngsters are initially from Malawi, the place she based the charity Elevating Malawi to assist present well being and schooling companies and constructed a youngsters's hospital.
She has launched 14 studio albums and has been nominated for 28 Grammys, profitable seven. She has additionally acted in a number of movies, incomes her seven Golden Globes, profitable one for finest actress for "Evita" in 1997, and one for finest tune for "Masterpiece" in 2012.