Arguably 1 of the biggest names in Hollywood today, the cheery Grammy victor has redefined what it means to beryllium a Black antheral successful music. From his fabulously flamboyant performances to his unapologetic singles astir same-sex emotion similar "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)," Lil Nas X ne'er shies distant from putting his sexuality beforehand and halfway successful his art—and the masses can't get enough.

Having started arsenic a SoundCloud artist, his 2018 breakthrough rap-county deed "Old Town Road" spent 19 weeks astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the longest-running number-one opus since the illustration debuted successful 1958.

In July 2019, Time named the record-breaking rapper arsenic 1 of the 25 astir influential radical connected the Internet for his "global interaction connected societal media." And having conscionable celebrated his 23rd day past month, he's already amassed 2 Grammy Awards, 5 Billboard Music Awards, 5 MTV Video Music Awards, 2 BET Hip Hop Awards, 2 iHeartRadio Music Awards and 2 American Music Awards.

There's nary shortage of Black Excellence connected RuPaul's Drag Race. For implicit a decade, the world TV contention bid has birthed immoderate of the LGBTQI+ community's astir beloved performers, similar play 13 victor Symone, 28, U.K. finalist Tayce, 28, play 11 victor Evie Oddly, 29, and fan-favorite Heidi N Closet, conscionable to sanction a handful.

There's nary uncertainty the show will proceed to present the satellite to unmatched young endowment and barrier-breaking queens for years to come.

Stenberg became a household sanction astatine the property of 13 playing Rue successful 2012's The Hunger Games. The histrion has gone connected to person captious acclaim for roles successful films similar The Hate U Give, Everything, Everything, Dear Evan Hansen and Bodies Bodies Bodies.

Having come retired arsenic a lesbian successful 2018, she's received a NAACP Image Award and a Teen Choice Award, but possibly her biggest grant to day was co-starring successful Beyoncé's "Lemonade" euphony video alongside chap icons Zendaya, Chloe X Halle and Serena Williams.

Since making his debut successful 2012, the Compton-born vocalist and guitarist, who identifies arsenic bisexual, has co-written songs for Solange Knowles, Chloe x Halle and Kendrick Lamar, successful summation to releasing hits like "911 / Mr. Lonely" with Frank Ocean, "Sunflower" with Vampire Weekend and his archetypal opus to deed No. 1 connected the Billboard Hot 100 database "Bad Habit."

At conscionable 24, he's already a Grammy winner after taking location the Best Progressive R&B Album trophy successful 2023 for Gemini Rights.

Born Uzoechi Osisioma "Uzo" Emenike, the British singer-songwriter has penned jams for mega-stars similar Beyoncé, Madonna, Selena Gomez, H.E.R., Kylie Minogue, Years & Years, Julia Michaels, Dua Lipa and Christina Aguilera, conscionable to sanction a few.

If that wasn't awesome enough, the cheery hit-maker has shown disconnected his ain awesome vocal chops and belting abilities connected songs similar "Tongue," "Head & Heart" and "Colour" featuring Hailee Steinfeld.

Remember when Jada Pinkett and Will Smith's youngest had a deed single when she was conscionable 10 years old? Since starting her euphony vocation successful 2010 with the platinum-certified azygous "Whip My Hair," the singer, who identifies arsenic bisexual, has released 5 workplace albums—Ardipithecus (2015), The 1st (2017), Willow (2019), Lately I Feel Everything (2021) and Coping Mechanism (2022)—all earlier the property of 22 and has won a NAACP Award and a BET Award, among others.

In summation to acting successful aggregate movie and TV projects, she's hosted the Emmy-nominated speech amusement Red Table Talk with her ma and grandma Adrienne.

The transgender and non-binary histrion made past erstwhile the groundbreaking bid Pose debuted successful 2018. The amusement featured the largest formed of trans actors ever for a scripted web TV series. Moore was besides the archetypal trans histrion signed arsenic a exemplary to IMG Models and William Morris Endeavor.

While their vocation is conscionable getting started, Time named Moore 1 of the 100 astir influential radical successful the satellite successful 2019.

Kehlani, who goes by she/they pronouns, released their debut workplace medium SweetSexySavage successful 2017, which peaked astatine No. 3 connected the U.S. Billboard chart. The R&B star's followup 2020 album It Was Good Until It Wasn't reached No. 2.

After coming retired arsenic lesbian successful 2021, they have been outspoken about gender, sexuality, spirituality and identifying arsenic non-binary.

Their soulful hits person nabbed them nominations for the Grammys, BET Awards, Billboard Awards, GLAAD Media Awards, American Music Awards and more.

After making his Broadway debut successful 2018, the histrion made past a twelvemonth aboriginal erstwhile helium became the sixth idiosyncratic successful Tony Award past to beryllium nominated successful 2 categories for abstracted performances during the aforesaid twelvemonth (he won the Outstanding Debut Performance Tony for Choir Boy successful 2019 but was besides up for Best Actor successful a Featured Role successful a Musical for his relation arsenic Eddie Kendricks for Ain't Too Proud).

Having starred successful films similar One Night successful Miami and TV shows including Pose and Hollywood, Pope, who is gay, was nominated for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama astatine the 2023 Golden Globes for The Inspection.