Sam Smith opens up about their experiences with homophobia
Sam Smith has opened up about their experiences of homophobia.
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The pop star mentioned in a brand new interview that when they discovered fame and success, they thought any abuse in opposition to their sexuality would cease.
However Smith says even now, they nonetheless encounter homophobic discrimination.
“It’s nonetheless laborious to be queer. There’s nonetheless backlash,” they mentioned to Zane Lowe on his Apple Music present. “I nonetheless get issues mentioned to me on the road, even now. The weirdest factor is you will be well-known, you could be a pop star and you continue to get it.”
Smith continued: “As a result of I assumed I’d turn out to be a pop star and I’d by no means get a foul phrase mentioned to me ever once more. I’d by no means have homophobia. I’d by no means expertise it if I grew to become a star. After which it occurs and it’s nonetheless there. It’s nonetheless there.”
The pop star went on to say they’ve since embraced their function of being a voice for the LGBTQ+ neighborhood.
Smith added: “You must speak about all of it. And I’ve stepped into that as a result of I’ve now realised how highly effective that’s. And there’s children on the market that want this. They want us to speak about it.”
It comes after Smith and Kim Petras lately grew to become the primary overtly non-binary and transgender artists, respectively, to high the Billboard Sizzling 100 with their collaborative single ‘Unholy’.
The track is the second single from Smith’s fourth studio album ‘Gloria’, which is ready for launch in January of 2023, following on from April’s ‘Love Me Extra’.
The one different non-binary artist to have topped the Billboard chart beforehand is Halsey, who makes use of each they/them and she or he/her pronouns. Nonetheless, each of their Quantity One singles – ‘Nearer’ with The Chainsmokers in 2016, and ‘With out Me’ in 2018 – got here earlier than they publicly got here out in 2021.
In the meantime, Smith additionally lately shared particulars of a UK and European tour for subsequent yr. Any remaining tickets can be found here.
They’re additionally as a consequence of carry out at Capital’s Jingle Bell Ball with Barclaycard 2022 alongside Coldplay and Lewis Capaldi subsequent month.