Madonna comes out as 'Gay' in viral TikTok aged 64
In a TikTok video Madonna posted Sunday, the 64-year-old megastar is seen holding hot-pink underwear, with the on-screen caption, “If I miss, I’m Gay!” She then throws the panties toward a nearby wastebasket and comes up short — by a lot.
It was, perhaps not coincidentally, two days shy of Tuesday’s National Coming Out Day.
“What in the 80s is happening 😳,” one TikTok user commented under the video. “Did Madonna just come out? And I’m witnessing it in real time??” wrote another.
The singer’s apparent coming out follows hints she had dropped over the years about her sexual orientation as well as her decades of support for gay people that turned her into a queer icon.
Famously, in 2003, she kissed both Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera while they performed onstage at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Madonna, who surged to ’80s stardom with hits like “Lucky Star,” “Like a Virgin” and “Material Girl,”began raising awareness about HIV/AIDS during that decade’s epidemic, fighting the HIV stigma and fundraising for research.