Reneé Rapp says she felt “euphoric” after coming out as a lesbian

The singer also blasted homophobic people of her past for trying to sidle up to her now that she's famous.

une 1, 2025, 5:00 pm EDT

by Molly Sprayregen (She/Her ) (click here to go to LGBTNation.com's article on these events)

Actress and singer Reneé Rapp recently spoke about the joy she has experienced since publicly coming out as a lesbian.

During an appearance on the Good Hang with Amy Poehler podcast, the Mean Girls star explained that she had been out as bisexual for a long time before realizing she identified as a lesbian.

She decided to come out while appearing in a Saturday Night Live sketch, explaining to Poehler that the writers had wanted to call her a “little bisexual intern” and she asked them to change it to lesbian. 

Rapp said embracing the word “feels very euphoric.”

“Labelling yourself publicly is really, really, really empowering,” she told Poehler, “and also I think can be kind of intimidating… This feels so good for me right now, and I don’t want to go by something that doesn’t feel correct.” She also said she will always remain open to change as she can’t predict how she will feel about her identity down the line....

Pete Hegseth orders Navy to remove Harvey Milk’s name from ship during Pride Month

One high-profile Democrat has called the move "spiteful," "shameful," and "vindictive."

June 3, 2025, 5:28 pm EDT· Updated on June 4, 2025

By Daniel Villarreal (click here to go to LGBTQnation.com's article on these events)

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to remove the name of gay rights icon and military veteran Harvey Milk from one of its ships. The renaming of military ships is a rare occurrence and generally considered taboo.

A military official said the decision to remove Milk’s name during Pride Month is intentional and part of “reestablishing the warrior culture” in the military, according to Military.com.

In 2012, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors urged the then-secretary of the Navy to name a ship after Milk, who served for four years in the Navy, partly as a diving officer on the submarine rescue ship USS Kittiwake during the Korean War, before receiving an “other than honorable” discharge due to allegations of homosexuality.

In 2016, the Navy announced that they would name several new ships after Milk and other civil rights icons, including suffragist Lucy Stone, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, racial justice champion John Lewis, Latina labor activist Dolores Huerta, women’s rights suffragette Lucy Stone, Latino civil rights organizer Cesar Chavez, and Black soldier and civil rights activist Medgar Evers.

A defense official told Military.com that Hegseth ordered Navy Secretary John Phelan to remove Milk’s name from the ship. “The official also said that the timing of the announcement — occurring during Pride Month — was intentional,” the publication wrote.

The memo reviewed by Military.com stated that the ship’s renaming was in “alignment with [the president, Hegseth, and Phelan’s] priorities of reestablishing the warrior culture.” The memo said that the ship’s new name would eventually be announced aboard the USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned Navy ship....