Is Shay Mitchell Gay? Mitchell Sparks Says About Rumors of Bise*uality in Recent Interview!
Shay Mitchell has refused to identify as a particular gender in the past, but she has made it evident that she is attracted to all genders. Fans believe the actor has recently come out as bise*ual, though, after seeing a new Tiktok.
The video, posted on October 5, is a duet showing user @NourishedWithTish on one side of the screen saying, “If you identify as bise*ual, do you own a green velvet couch?” User @KeepItSpooky then duets that saying “I love knowing nothing about my life is original.”
Shay dueted these videos, showing herself collapsing onto — you guessed it — a green velvet couch. Fans then flooded her comments, asking if the footage was Shay’s way of telling the world she’s bise*ual.
Shay has already discussed her attraction to people of all genders. She admitted to Maxim in 2017 that, like Emily Fields from her Pretty Little Liars character, she doesn’t classify her se*uality.
“People always ask me, ‘You play a gay character? Are you gay? Are you straight? Are you this? Are you that?'” Mitchell said. “Look, Emily doesn’t label herself, and I don’t label myself either. I fall in love with the spirit of somebody. Love is love, and that’s something that I’ll keep saying.”
Many followers commented on Shay’s post pointing out how significant it would be for her to identify as bise*ual given the critical role her character played in assisting so many young people discover their se*uality. The Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin cast spoke to Teen Vogue about Emily Fields and how much she meant to them.
“I’m bise*ual, so Emily was also very important in my coming to terms with everything,” Maia Reficco, who plays Noa, said. Malia Pyles, who portrays Mouse, said Emily’s storyline was the most impactful for her.
“Especially because for women or female-identifying people, there wasn’t a lot on TV at all. And if it was, it was fetishized in a number of ways,” she said about queerness. “There’s such a purity to her story and the struggles she went through. So to be able to also identify as queer outwardly on the show has been so cool.”
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Shay has portrayed several more gay characters on screen than Emily Fields. She describes the outwardly queer character Stella in Dollface. In the film You, she portrayed Peach Salinger, a woman in love with her best friend Beck.
Shay doesn’t have to identify as gay if she doesn’t want to; posting a TikTok doesn’t necessarily confirm someone’s identity. Fans love Shay on the green velvet couch in the interim though.
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