'Hacks' Star Carl Clemons-Hopkins Opens Up About Coming Out as Non-Binary

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Carl Clemons-Hopkins is speaking out about gender. The Hacks star got candid in a guest column for THR about being non-binary. “I was raised with ministers on both sides of my family — it was a very religious household.

I quickly learned that I needed to not express this part of myself, and I should probably also not express the non-heterosexual part of myself.

In college, I began to identify as a queer person, and told my parents and select people. I saw someone recently say it’s not about coming about, but about ‘inviting in.’ I really liked that,” Carl said. “In the past five or six years, I’ve been doing a lot of studies on the origins of masculinity, where all these rules and norms came from.