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Australian actor Hugh Sheridan celebrated pride month last weekend by coming out as non-binary.
Sheridan, 35, best known for his role on the Aussie dramedy Packed to the Rafters, posed with his fiancé Kurt Roberts on the cover of DNA magazine this weekend. He also opened up about his own gender identity in an Instagram post.
“Given that’s it IS #pridemonth & I am beyond honored to share the most coveted DNA cover of 2021 with the greatest lover/HUMAN of all time,” Sheridan wrote in the post, “I understand why @dnamagazine chose LOVE over… another pic of a guy with a towel.”
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“FYI,” Sheridan added, “I AM still a human (nonbinary/bi/me/Hughman) but I’m in a monogamous relationship with another human, who I love. I don’t accept a label cause it limits me… if you want it; take it. I chose zero labels for no other reason except the exclusion, limitations, separation, I believe are all one, deeeeep down. &…who knows? Why chose?!! Be you. Be true. Be free: to BE, to JUST BE… you, a human, same as me.”
“READ THE ARTICLE, you’ll laugh. I did,” he concluded. At the time of this writing, the post has received more than 15,000 likes, including one by singer Natalie Imbruglia.
The article in question also features a pictorial of Sherdian in various stages of undress, photographed by photographer Christian Scott.
Sheridan had previously revealed he’d had relationships with men and women in an October 2020 interview with Stellar. He and Roberts got engaged in March of this year.
Sheridan will next appear in the Amazon series Back to the Rafters, a sequel series to Packed to the Rafters set to debut in September of this year.
sfhairy
oh FFS, he doesn’t accept a lable yet labels himself as non-binary. girl please.
WashDrySpin
exactly…what a load of crap…but hey I am in good shape and people have told me I am attractive so how can I be wrong
amanwithanedge
agreed. gargoyle, please.
Sqwoah
Sorry, who is this?
Prinny
Sigh another one
GlobeTrotter
I don’t get this fashionable trend to “come out as this” or “identify as that” – who cares? As far as I’m concerned, your sexuality is between you and the person you’re screwing – that’s it! NO ONE CARES! Sometimes I think these people are just addicted to attention more than anything else.
Donston
Can you stop with this bs? A lot of people care. But also, “coming out” is often a very important step in people feeling honest and free. Stop trying to shame folks into the closet or shame them out of not embracing an identity. Let people do what they want to do. While not everyone who “comes out” are looking for attention. People like you always never acknowledge that homophobia, hetero pressures, queer insecurities, gay shame, toxic masculinity, etc. are still widespread issues. We don’t live in the world you’re trying to pretend like we do.
The “until they say otherwise everyone is ‘straight’ and everyone until they say otherwise fully embraces only being seen as their bio sex” is part of the reason identity politics have become so problematic and convoluted. People still use hetero-normalcy and gender normalcy as a base, and they filter everything through that. Once we stop doing that, identity politics, “coming out”, sociological and ego game-playing won’t be as much of a thing. And then maybe we can start seeing people, their sexualities, gender dimensions, and where they are in the orientation spectrum as individual things.
GlobeTrotter
@Donston: Have I got news for you! NO ONE CARES! No one cares whom you sleep with, no one cares what you identify as, no one cares for your pronouns, no one cares for you sexuality! Everyone has problems of their own, everyday struggles to deal with, putting food on the table, earning enough money to make ends meet, etc., etc. You are your own judge, you alone will have to live with the consequences of your actions.
Parents have played a cruel joke on this past generation, as they’ve been taught to find validation and acceptance in everyone else but themselves, hence the need to come out to the world and declare one’s “identity”, one’s “pronouns”, one’s “sexuality”, in the vain and misplaced hope of gaining the public’s acceptance. But it’s not the acceptance of strangers that we should be preoccupied with, but the acceptance of one’s self. If you truly love yourself and truly accept yourself for what and who you are, then you won’t need the validation of strangers, and therefore won’t need to stage these public events to affect other people’s sympathy and recognition. Just be yourself, love yourself, be kind to others and cherish the ones you love. THAT’S IT!
You think I’m the cruel and intolerant one – little did you know that I’m the only well-adjusted adult in the room that truly loves his self…
Cam
Tell that to all of the women having bachelorette parties, or men who have pictures of their kids and wives on their desks, or women who tell co-workers about their family vacations, or men who write their wedding vows to recite in front of an audience, or people who put their wedding announcements in the paper, or people who wear wedding rings.
Ohhhh, wait, you mean it only angers you when people who AREN’T straight come out of the closet.
Donston
Unfortunately, when a lot of guys say that they “don’t believe in labels” they end up simply coming off like they don’t want to be seen as a “gay male”. And that’s fine. Everyone has their own dimensions and sense of self. Sexuality and sexual dimensions are very individual. Sexual/gender fluidity and contradictions are common for many. And the gender, sexual, romantic, emotional investment, commitment spectrum is wide and varied. But if you are truly about that “no labels” life then be about it. When say you’re anti “labels” yet you fully embrace a “bi” and “non-binary” identity (those are “labels” as much as anything else), it ends up coming off contradictory and gay-shaming.
These public figures (though I have no idea who he is) need to understand their message and do their research before putting stuff out there. If you don’t really know how to express yourself and you come off messy and maybe a bit problematic, then just embrace being seen as “queer” and call it a day. A lot of folks who are supposedly “proudly out” still have a lot of work to do and need to learn how to truly calculate and express things. This type of expression is not how you eradicate identity politics.
ppp111
Yeah, I’ve noticed that too. I wonder is it so hard to just say “I’m gay” than using some evasive term. I already know what I like so why mince words?
Cam
This guy has struggled, he is a TV star in Australia, I’ve seen a show or two he was in, and the journey apparently wasn’t easy for him. It looks like he’s still working through it.
Donston
Apparently, he got a lot of criticism for accepting a trans male role. So, this makes his coming out as “non-binary” seem fairly calculated.
As I said, everyone has their own thing going on and their own dimensions, struggles and journeys. But these public figures really need to stop using that stuff to manufacture an image, to ward off criticism, for sociological game-playing, for ego boosts or attention. It is tiresome and often transparent.
Reth
Chicken dinner
WSnyder
Looks and sounds like a Gay Actor who is partnered with another Gay Man is looking to ‘define’ himself uniquely from other Gay Men. Sounds like just another actor with a little ego staking a place for himself to be set apart. Is it all that strange?
Does it REALLY matter?
barryaksarben
WOW all the negative comments ! BITTER old queens. I am happy for him. We need visibility and most people dont spend every waking minute policing other people’s words . He is an actor not a sociologist in the field of human sexuality as all these queens must be to be so sure of their OPINIONS. Like assholes
mecmass
Good Lord, read your own post. None of the other comments sound like they came from “bitter old queens” as much as yours does. Get over yourself. You’re no better than anyone who expresses an opinion that is different from yours.
twomen4u
Me as a 75-year-old man who came out at 40 and I came out as a gay MAN, I too do not see the need for ego-stroking. Didn’t we have enough of that with the last idiot in the WH? I am old and set in my ways, there are two sexes, male and female, period. If you want to move from one to the other, feel free as I am not in your way. My husband and I are quite happy to be Seniors who have been together for nearly 20 years and legally married for nearly 4. We have some friends who have been together for 41 years and yes Seniors stick together as we have to do that. Why are there so many divisions, can’t we all live together without defining this or that, is that really, really necessary? Being alive as long as I have, I have learned a few things over the years.
Joshooeerr
Perspective: Hugh’s initial coming out last year was, as with so many celebrities who suddenly want to “make a difference”, prompted by media being poised to do the outing for him. Until then he’d been comfortably closeted for a decade, even if it was no big secret within the entertainment industry. His rambling statement at that time about being “not gay”, but not straight, and non-binary, etc. was highly confused, borderline insulting to gay men who actually own their sexuality, and seemed largely designed to cover why it took him so damn long to come out, despite widespread speculation. He’s a nice boy. Drop dead gorgeous. But not the sharpest tool in the box.
oscarjames
There is nothing that is “borderline” insulting to gay men about this guy. This asshole is just blatantly insulting period.
8millionandcounting
I think headless people know he’s Gay so what exactly is he trying to dance around? Seems pretty shallow but then again he’s a privileged white guy so let’s put him on that pedestal and give him a blue ribbon for being so brave.
mecmass
Yet another cop out from a celebrity who is afraid to just say that he is gay. He does a disservice by implying that saying he’s gay would be something to be ashamed of. He’s queer as folk, and a picture paints a thousand words. All the euphemisms in the world aren’t going to disguise how passionately he’s embracing his queer boyfriend. and his claim to be “non-binary” is mierda de toro.
bbg372
If Sheridan identifies as non-binary, then using the gendered term “hunk” to describe him would be inappropriate. Not that one could be faulted for doing so, considering he has a male name, uses male pronouns, and presents as male. Apparently, his non-binary identity is just a private fantasy.
oscarjames
Yawn…..what a crock of shit. These very minor celebrity actors have to be angling constantly for a way to stay in the spotlight. Just go away whatever or whoever you are.
ricdardc1
Sweetie, Tomato, Tomatoe, I can Call K-mart La K-Plaza all I want. don’t mean The merch. is any different. P.S. every Gay Person in a Relationship has felt they were with The Best Lover at one point or another, Tacky Tacky Tacky !
HenryCameron
I keep trying to find out what non-binary means. We used to have sissy boys and butch women and men getting in touch with their feminine side, etc. I guess all of those now fall under non-binary. The closest thing to a definition that I can find is that it is indefinable and means what anybody wants it to mean, which means that is it meaningless and can apply to every person on the planet, so, YAY! everybody’s queer now, and every straight person is really just a queer person who hasn’t dealt with it yet.
inbama
Yep, various types of androgyny have been part of gay life forever, and more often than not, the gender-benders used to be fun. And somehow they didn’t reach for a razor blade because someone referred to them as a “him” or “her.”
But back to Sheridan – how in heck is this slice of beefcake “non-binary?”
frankcar1965
He’s Australian who cares?
rickywintour
Obviously you do
avesraggiana
What’s a binary?