Singer-songwriter Khalid got here out as homosexual in a sequence of tweets about his sexuality on Friday. “🏳️‍🌈!!! there yall go. subsequent subject please lol,” he stated in an preliminary submit. “Wait hope Mr Khalid isn’t GEHHH!” somebody replied, to which Khalid clarified, “I’m! And that’s okay.” He then advised that he wasn’t the primary individual to share this private information. “I obtained outted [sic] and the world nonetheless continues to show,” he tweeted. “Let’s get this straight (lmao) I’m not ashamed of my sexuality! In actuality it ain’t nobodies enterprise! However I’m okay with me 🖤 love yall.” In different tweets, he emphasised that he has not been “hiding” his identification. Khalid’s posts got here after fellow singer Hugo D Almonte took to X with claims about an ex that he didn’t initially establish by title. In a since-deleted tweet, Almonte stated he dated and broke up with a “dumb ass singer” who allegedly then falsely accused him of breaking into their dwelling. Almonte then appeared to verify who he was speaking about by posting a since-deleted selfie with Khalid alongside the caption, “Bitch ass 🥷🏾 lied and stated that I broke into his home trigger I didn’t need him.” Whereas Khalid didn’t specify who outed him, the web appeared fairly certain that it was Almonte. (Singer and producer MNEK tweeted instantly at Almonte to name him out for “loser Loser LOSER LOSER behaviour.”)

When requested for remark, Almonte defended himself in an e mail assertion to Vulture. “[It’s] actually humorous the way it works as a result of my intentions was by no means to out somebody who’s clearly been out already locally in Los Angeles,” he wrote partially. “my intentions was to share my story and share how he tried to make use of his energy to silence me as a result of I merely ended our relationship, he was afraid of what I’d say.” Almonte added that folks have began to “belittle” his character and ship him dying threats. “all I’ve realized from that is by no means enable anybody to silence me, it’s loopy that these individuals stated I used to be chasing clout, once I was holding onto this for 5 years, and I lastly had sufficient,” he concluded. Almonte additionally tweeted and deleted an analogous however longer Notes-app assertion that doubled down and declared, “So if I had an opportunity to do it throughout, I’d do it time and again and once more the identical approach.”