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Pop star Lauv comes out as “a lil bit into men”

He opened up about his sexuality on TikTok.
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Pop star Lauv may have just come out as queer. Or, at the very least, not 100 percent straight.

An apparently self-shot video posted to TikTok over the weekend shows the singer/songwriter/producer riding in a car at night and having a think. “When ur dating a girl but ur also a lil bit into men,” reads text superimposed on the clip.

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“It’s imperative that I speak my truth for not only myself, but in hopes to change hearts, minds, and laws.”

“Does it have to be that big of a deal?” the “I Like Me Better” singer mused further in the video’s caption. “I havent done much aside from kiss so tbh don’t wannna jump the gun but tbh i feel things and i dont wanna pretend i dont. [sic]”

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Does it have to be that big of a deal? i havent done much aside from kiss so tbh don’t wannna jump the gun but tbh i feel things and i dont wanna pretend i dont. :)

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Lauv, whose real name is Ari Staprans Leff, reportedly dated singer/songwriter Julia Michaels between 2018 and 2019. More recently, he was romantically linked with singer/songwriter Sophie Cates.

In 2019, Lauv collaborated with out pop star Troye Sivan on the hit single “I’m So Tired.” Notably, the “Bloom” singer referred to Lauv as his “new bf” in a 2019 Instagram post promoting the duo’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in February of that year.

But in a 2020 interview with Gay Times, Lauv clarified that the two were just close friends, describing to the U.K. outlet how Sivan had helped him through a period of mental health issues.

“I was struggling with thoughts of not really wanting to be an artist and not wanting to deal with the pressure,” he explained. “Troye listened to me and took a lot of time to present his own experiences of stress to me and the ways he’s coped with it all. So really, he’s been a role model to me in managing this whole thing.”

He also noted at the time that he couldn’t speak about LGBTQ+ “from extreme personal experience – only from what I’ve seen through a lot of my friends who are members of that community.”

Of course, as LGBTQ Nation sibling site Into reminds us, Lauv also co-wrote Charli XCX’s 2017 single “Boys.” So it’s entirely possible he’s been “busy thinking ‘bout boys” for a while now.

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