Janelle Monae SHINES successful Futuristic Ralph Lauren astatine Met Gala 2022

Janelle Monáe feels escaped to beryllium her astir authentic self. 

Back successful April, the Grammy nominee revealed that she identifies arsenic nonbinary and doesn't "see myself arsenic a woman, solely." While her candor continues to beryllium praised by those successful the LGBTQ+ community, the 36-year-old says she's amazed by each the recognition.

"I don't needfully look astatine myself arsenic a trailblazer oregon idiosyncratic who's blazed trails," Janelle exclusively told E! News astatine the 2022 Outfest Legacy Awards. "I've conscionable tried to unrecorded authentically and honestly to who I americium astatine that time, and grant that done my art, done the storytelling that I bash and arsenic a free-ass motherf--ker."

Since coming out, Janelle said she is capable to "feel each of me" portion besides teaching friends and household what it means to place arsenic nonbinary.

"I'm diligent and arsenic agelong arsenic I cognize who I americium and however I place and I grant that, I conscionable consciousness much light," she said. "I consciousness freer and I consciousness similar there's a batch much enactment to bash erstwhile we're talking astir nonbinary storytellers and communities. If we tin get much visibility, past I deliberation a batch of radical volition beryllium much educated."

"I consciousness similar I'm successful my religion tonight," she said. "I'm with radical who spot maine and consciousness me, that recognize me, and I'm conscionable profoundly humbled and truthful thankful. I'm conscionable astatine a nonaccomplishment for existent words to lucifer my feelings truthful conscionable judge my convey you."

Now, she wants others to consciousness conscionable arsenic accepted.

"You tin person an interior speech with yourself until you consciousness okay," she told E! News earlier accepting her award. "I had to speech to maine and past I had to speech to my household and loved ones earlier I adjacent started to let it to spill implicit into my creation due to the fact that you don't privation to beryllium moving retired those sorts of things with the remainder of the world."