From left: Cody Fern, Chappell Roan, Ncuti Gatwa, and Doja Cat. Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock; Amy Sussman/Getty Images; Karwai Tang/WireImage; Mike Coppola/MG24/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Free the nipples!
Singer Chappell Roan always knows how to cause a stir on the red carpet, both with her incredible looks and with her iconic behavior. This year's Grammys were no exception when she stunned the crowd with a revealing custom Mugler gown suspended from nipple rings.
We love to see it, particularly because nipples are still treated like a taboo part of the human body. For some, it's ok to show them off whenever they please, and for others, it’s a literal crime.
But Roan isn’t the only star to break these societal norms. In recent years, celebrities — both queer and straight — have started to use their considerable platforms, and the red carpet, to show off their nipples regardless of their gender.
From singers rocking sheer looks on the red carpet to actors showing off their nipples at film premieres, there is no shortage of hot famous people showing off their chest accessories.
As Alice from The L Word would say, these celebs have “nipple confidence,” and we love that for them!
Chappell Roan
Chappell Roan always finds a way to outdo herself on the red carpet, and this time she did it in a stunning custom Mugler gown at the 68th GRAMMY Awards. What a time to be alive.
Doechii
Doechii attends the 68th GRAMMY Awards
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Doechii is always a showstopper, and she proved it once again on the 68th GRAMMY Awards red carpet. The “Alter Ego” singer slithered down the carpet in a custom Roberto Cavalli dress—and straight into our hearts forever.
Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum attends the 68th GRAMMY Awards
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Heidi Klum also got the nipple memo and donned this gorgeous custom nude latex dress at the 68th GRAMMY Awards. Barbie wishes.
Sydney Sweeney
Sydney Sweeney
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Sydney Sweeney freed her nipples at Variety’s Power of Women event on October 29. The controversial Euphoria star took off her blue jeans for the night to rock a completely see-through silver chainmail dress that draped over her chest.
Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X
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Lil Nas X has made a name for himself wearing subversive clothing and showing skin on the red carpet, but it was at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2023 where he showed nip on the red carpet when he rocked leather pants, platform shoes, and a black jacket with nothing underneath.
Julia Fox
Julia Fox
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Julia Fox is the queen of “nipple confidence.” Her nipples have been front and center in countless looks both on and off the red carpet, but it was her daring ensemble at the Vanity Fair Oscars After Party in 2025 that earned her a place in the Nip Hall of Fame. Celebs often wear more daring looks at the after party, but Fox stunned in a completely sheer number that only hid part of one nipple with long, wavy hair.
Cody Fern
Cody Fern
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Openly gay actor Cody Fern may be known for his role in The Assassination of Gianni Versace or playing the Antichrist in another Ryan Murphy joint, but we remember him best for showing nipple while wearing a sheer top on the red carpet of an American Horror Story: Apocalypse event in 2019.
Florence Pugh
Florence Pugh
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Gay fave Florence Pugh has never been one to shy away from an intentional nip slip. She showed off her figure wearing a sheer pink gown at the Valentino show in 2022, at the Vanity Fair Oscars After Party in 2024, where she rocked a partially sheer Jean Paul Gaultier look, and again in a completely sheer lavender gown at the Fashion Week in 2024.
Doja Cat
Doja Cat
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Queer singer Doja Cat stunned at the 2024 Met Gala when she showed up in a wet T-shirt dress that was a bold as it was revealing.
Charli XCX
Charli XCX
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Singer and LGBTQ+ ally Charli XCX is known for her daring fashion choices, along with her music that quickly became a gay fave when she skyrocketed to fame. But it was her 2024 Vanity Fair Oscars Party look that really garnered attention. The British singer sported a yellow floor-length, completely sheer gown.
Dua Lipa
Dua Lipa
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Dua Lipa sported a silver crystal mesh gown by Bottega Veneta when she walked the pink carpet for the world premiere of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. It really is a Barbie world!
Damiano David
Damiano David
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Måneskin frontman Damiano David and his bisexual fiancée Dove Cameron rocked the 2024 Met Gala runway when the actress showed up in a floor-length gown with strategically placed flowers, and David showed off his pierced nipples in a sheer suit jacket with nothing on underneath.
Janelle Monáe
Janelle Monáe
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Nonbinary singer and actor Janelle Monáe has been an advocate for desexualizing nipples for years. Not only did they rock a see-through wet T-shirt in their “Lipstick Lover” music video, but they wore a shirtless outfit to the PUBLIC's Met Gala after party in 2025 where their nipples were only covered by little anchors, and wore a sheer black gown to the Critics Choice Awards in 2023.
Jeremy Scott
Jeremy Scott
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Jeremy Scott made headlines when he received the Creative of the Year award at the Daily Front Row Fashion Awards, not for the incredible honor but for showing nip. Scott walked the red carpet and accepted the award wearing a Moschino one-shoulder, open nipple, pinstripe tuxedo.
Anitta
Anitta
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Bisexual singer Anitta stunned on the red carpet when she wore a naked dress to the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in 2024. The netted Fendi gown left nothing to the imagination.
Victoria Monét
Victoria Monét
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Bisexual singer-songwriter Victoria Monét was just one of many celebs who showed nip at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in 2024. The Grammy-winning star stunned on the red carpet in a sheer corseted gown with strategic seams.
Hari Nef
Hari Nef
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Trans actress Harry Nef managed to look ethereal in a sheer cream-colored gown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023 while also looking like a badass with a bob haircut and visible nipple piercings.
Lily-Rose Depp
Lily-Rose Depp
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Queer actress Lily-Rose Depp, who is currently dating 070 Shake, wore a sheer gown in the gothic horror film Nosferatu, but she took that look into the real world at the BAFTA Special Screening of the film when she wore a sheer dress.
Indya Moore
Indya Moore
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Trans star Indya Moore has never been shy about showing off their nipples. Moore sported outfits a number of times on the red carpet that have made their nipples part of the look, but at the 2019 Time 100 Gala, they made a real splash in an avant-garde gown that put their nips front and center.
Halsey
Halsey
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Queer singer Halsey showed nipple on the red carpet when they attended the amfAR Cannes Gala in 2023, rocking black leather opera gloves and a hot pink dress.
Ncuti Gatwa
Ncuti Gatwa
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Openly gay Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa always dresses to impress, but he really stunned on the red carpet at the Vogue World: London 2023 event when he wore a Burc Akyol look featuring a green and white train attached to his pants and a sheer black top.
11 times J.K. Rowling did something wildly transphobic, ranked
J.K. Rowling attends day four of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse on June 20, 2025 in Ascot, England.
This story originally appeared on Out.
For almost a decade now, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been spreading transphobia and has become the poster child for the UK’s troubling movement of TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists). She has gone on transphobic tirades on social media, written a nearly 4,000-word anti-trans manifesto, donated some of her fortune to anti-trans causes, regularly misgenders trans women, and gleefully celebrates every time the transgender community has their rights stripped away.
The author, once revered for creating an inclusive fantasy world where good triumphs over evil, let her LGBTQ+ fans down by consistently doubling down on her transphobic rhetoric. She has painted trans women as predators who are lying about their gender to take away women’s rights and enter women’s spaces under false pretenses. This dangerous vitriol has even caused many of the stars of the Harry Potter franchise to come forward and call her out for her anti-trans takes.
For queer and trans fans of Harry Potter, this abrupt turn was jarring and has undermined their love of a fictional world where marginalized groups are loved and fought for. But Rowling hasn’t just disappointed her fans by spreading her hateful views; she’s also done so in some of the most bizarre ways, leaving many people not just outraged, but scratching their heads.
11. Tone deaf Dolly Parton tribute
Rowling joined the world in mourning Dolly Parton by posting a tribute on X that backfired when the country music legend’s fans came out in droves to point out that Parton loved the LGBTQ+ community and wouldn’t have supported Rowling’s TERF views.
After Parton fans flooded Rowling’s comment section with messages like, “She certainly would have thought of you as a nasty, hateful woman. Nice little tweet though,” Rowling attempted to hit back after a user called her “a fucking monster” by posting, “Well, joke’s on you, because neither of us want Jolene to take our man.”
10. Accidentally wrote “f*ck up some TERFs” on a child’s drawing
Seemingly by mistake, Rowling replied to post on X about a nine-year-old kid’s drawing of Ickabog, a monster from her children’s book, by including text she likely meant to copy and paste elsewhere.
“I love this truly fabulous Ickabog, with its bat ears, mismatched eyes, and terrifying bloodstained teeth! In court, Wolf claimed the Facebook post in which he’d said he wanted to ‘f*** up some TERFs’ was just ‘bravado’. #TheIckabog.”
Internet sleuths figured out that in the post, Rowling was misgendering Tara Wolf, a trans woman accused of assaulting Maria MacLachlan, who was at an anti-trans protest in 2017.
9. Accused Olympic boxer Imane Khelif of being trans
When Algerian boxer Imane Khelif took home gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Rowling joined fellow wealthy bigot Elon Musk in spreading the rumor that the cisgender boxer was secretly a man, leaning hard into the ever-present transphobia and anti-intersex hate in women's sports.
Even after both Rowling and Musk were named in a criminal complaint filed with French authorities over alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment,” Rowling refused to let it go and continued to post anti-trans posts accusing Khelif of lying about her gender.
8. Transvestigated another athlete
Less than five months after harassing Olympic boxer Imane Khelif for supposedly being trans, Rowling joined in on another transvestigation of a woman in sports when she accused cisgender Zambian soccer player Barbra Banda of secretly being a man — she is not.
Rowling took exception to the BBC naming Banda the 2024 Women’s Footballer of the Year. “Presumably the BBC decided this was more time efficient than going door to door to spit directly in women's faces," Rowling wrote on X.
7. Smoked a cigar to celebrate being a TERF
After donating £70,000 (roughly $88,200) to the anti-trans group For Women Scotland in 2024 to help them fight against a 2018 Scottish law that legally recognized trans women as women, Rowling celebrated in a ghoulish way when the U.K. Supreme Court decided that trans women aren’t considered women under the nation’s Equality Act.
Rowling responded to the court decision by posting a photo of herself with a drink in one hand and smoking a cigar with the other. While people like right-wing commentator Megyn Kelly commented “God bless you,” the post was also full of people slamming her for her cruelty in the face of people having their rights taken away. Pedro Pascal even called her out for doing “Voldemort villain s---" and referred to Rowling as a "heinous loser."
6. Accidentally turned herself into a meme
Rowling accidentally turned herself into a meme when she changed her profile pic on X to a photo that showed what looked like black mold-covered walls inside her mansion.
While the photo most likely shows wallpaper and not mold, users ran with it and began joking that the black mold had infected her brain as an explanation for her hateful anti-trans views.
5. Whined about being doxxed
On the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance in 2021, comedian Holly Stars, actor Georgia Frost and drag king Richard Energy protested Rowling’s anti-trans views by staging a demonstration and posting a photo holding signs in front of the author’s home near Edinburgh, Scotland.
Rowling took exception to her house numbers being visible in the photo and accused the “actor activists” of “doxxing” her in an eight-tweet rant on X. But is it doxxing if the information is already public? Rowling claimed she received “so many death threats I could paper the house with them,” but both of her residences are historical landmarks, and one even has its own Wikipedia page.
4. Wrote a transphobic character that sounds an awful lot like herself
Under her pen name Robert Galbraith, Rowling wrote The Ink Black Heart, where a character gets harassed and doxxed because of their transphobic and racist views.
Rowling claimed that the character wasn’t based on her own experience, despite Rolling Stone writing that the character is doxxed “with photos of her home plastered on the internet” and subjected “to death and rape threats for having an opinion,” which probably sounds pretty familiar to people who have been following the author’s anti-trans outbursts.
3. Called David Tennant the "gender Taliban"
Rowling called Harry Potter actor David Tennant and people like him the “gender Taliban” in a post on X after he spoke out at the British LGBT Awards, where he called transgender critics “a tiny bunch of little whinging f*ckers who are on the wrong side of history, and they’ll all go away soon” and said they are on the “wrong side of history.”
In response, Rowling leaned into hateful anti-trans rhetoric that conflates being transgender with being an abuser of women. “This man is talking about rape survivors who want female-only care, the nurses currently suing their health trust for making them change in front of a man, girls and women losing sporting opportunities to males and female prisoners incarcerated with convicted sex offenders,” she wrote.
2. Dared police to arrest her
Rowling spoke out against Scotland’s new hate crime act in 2024 by daring police to arrest her for misgendering trans women. The act criminalizes “stirring up hatred” regarding age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity and variations in sex characteristics, which can result in a fine or a seven-year prison sentence.
Rowling then went on a lengthy tirade on X — something she is known for at this point — where she accused lawmakers of protecting trans women at the expense of “the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls.” She finished by telling the police to come and arrest her if what she wrote “qualifies as an offense” under the new law. “I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment,” she wrote.
1. Posted an upskirt photo
Rowling, who claims to be a protector of women and rails against trans women being allowed in women’s restrooms, targeted a transgender British podcaster who she disagrees with by posting an upskirt photo of her. Freda Wallace became Rowling’s latest target when she refused to engage with the transphobe online.
Rowling responded by misgendering Wallace and posting a photo of her originally taken by anti-trans activist and fellow transphobe Maya Forstater, from slightly below Wallace to show her upper thigh. Rowling said that Wallace refused to debate her but to prove she has “no hard feelings” she posted the photo of another debate. “I hear he left an indelible impression on the audience. And the chair,” Rowling wrote.