You need to know these 10 non-binary people – team

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More and more well-known personalities are coming out as non-binary. We would like to introduce you to ten Enbys.

#1 Nemo
Nemo plays violin, piano, drums and sings. At the age of 18, the musical talent had already won five Swiss Music Awards. Today Nemo is 24 and won the Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland with “The Code” (MANNSCHAFT reported)

Last year, Nemo came out as non-binary. On Instagram you can read: “I do not identify as a man or a woman. I’m just Nemo.” Nemo imagines himself as a galaxy, and himself as a small star floating somewhere in it. “That’s where I feel most like myself.”

#2 Janelle Monáe
Janelle Monáe was born in Kansas City to a truck driver father and a janitor mother. Monáe moved to New York to study acting, but then focused on making music. Monáe released her first album in 2007 under the title “Metropolis”; The Special Edition made it to number two in the US album charts. This was followed by a Grammy nomination, further albums and the leading role in the film “Hidden Figures – Unrecognized Heroines”.

The star already had in an interview in 2018 Rolling Stone coming out as pansexual. Four years later, the second coming out as non-binary (MANNSCHAFT reported). On the talk show Red Table Talk Said Monáe: “I identify as non-binary. I believe God is much bigger than he or she. If I come from God, then I am everything.”

#3 Felix Jaehn
In 2014, Felix Jaehn achieved his international breakthrough with the remix “Cheerleader”. The original is by Jamaican singer Omi. A reggae song that Jaehn reinterpreted – with resounding success. Number one chart positions in Australia, Germany, the USA and many other countries. Felix Jaehn followed up with more hits. The second single “Ain’t Nobody (Loves Me Better)” became a summer hit in Germany, and Felix Jaehn became an established figure in the music business.

The star came out as non-binary on the talk show Sweet and savory (Crew reported). When asked, Felix Jaehn explained: “I prefer to use the name Fee at the moment because I have gone among non-binary people and would like to have a gender-neutral name.” Jaehn’s chosen neopronouns are dey/denen/dey. However, the artist name remains Felix Jaehn.

#4 Kim de l’Horizon
Kim De l’Horizon wrote her debut novel “Blood Book” for ten years. It tells the story of a non-binary character who grew up in a Swiss suburb and moved to Zurich. But then her grandmother falls ill with dementia and the character comes to terms with her past. The book was honored with the Swiss Book Prize in 2022 – the highest literary award in Switzerland (MANNSCHAFT reported).

Kim de l’Horizon herself grew up in Ostermundigen – a small community near Bern. Studied German, film and theater studies in Bern and Zurich. Since then, Kim de l’Horizon has worked primarily in literature and theater. The talent is part of the editorial team of the literary magazine Delirium; played and organized various plays. De l’Horizon has received several awards and funding for its numerous cultural achievements. Among other things, with the scholarship for artists in training from the Ernst Göhner Foundation.

Kim de l’Horizon at a reading in Bern (archive photo: Denise Liebchen)

#5 Claude Cahun
Claude Cahun was born in Nantes, France in 1894. Cahun wrote and photographed in the style of surrealism, made collages and acted in plays. Through art, Cahun turned against fascism and fought for freedom and emancipation. In 1937, Cahun and his partner Suzanne Malherbe fled from the Nazis to the Channel Island of Jersey, an island between England and France. After the occupation of Jersey by the German Wehrmacht, the couple became involved in the resistance. They distributed anti-fascist leaflets and posters. In 1944 they were caught and sentenced to death. After Jersey was liberated, both were released from prison. The prison conditions had severely affected her health. Claude Cahun never recovered. Nine years after the liberation, Cahun died in the hospital of St. Hélier.

Claude Cahun was non-binary. Cahun was born Lucy Schwob and changed his name to Claude Cahun in 1920. The name is a homage to great uncle David Léon Cahun. In the autobiography “Disavowals or canceled confessions,” Cahun describes himself as a neuter: “Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me» (Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me.)

#6 Bambi Thug
Nemo wasn’t the only non-binary act at the Eurovision Song Contest this year. Irish competitor Bambie Thug also identifies as non-binary (TEAM reported). The Gay Time Bambie Thug explained: “I like being part of a cool, up-and-coming queer scene. I didn’t have that growing up. It’s important to have people you can identify with.”

Bambie is 31 years old, says she makes Ouija pop and practices witchcraft herself – even blood magic during menstruation. Bambie Thug will compete for Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Doomsday Blue”. The act writes spells and hexes into song lyrics. That’s why Bambie Thug is controversial in Ireland – there was even a petition against participation.

#7 Demi Lovato
Demi Lovato took her first acting lessons at the age of five. The breakthrough came with the Disney film “Camp Rock”. In the film, Lovato plays a girl who dreams of becoming a singer. This dream came true. Lovato’s debut album sold a whopping 89,000 copies in the USA and rose to number 2 on the album charts. In her personal life, the starlet struggled with drug abuse for a long time. In 2018, Demi Lovato sought treatment for addiction; However, had a relapse in 2018, during which the star suffered three strokes and a heart attack.

After a phase of inner reflection, Lovato first came out as pansexual in 2021, and a little later as non-binary. Lovato’s pronouns from then on were they / them. In 2023, Demi Lovato adopted female pronouns again (MANNSCHAFT reported). The star still feels non-binary, but is tired of having to constantly point out the use of the correct pronouns. “It was just absolutely exhausting,” Demi Lovato told Spanish GQ Hype.

Demi Lovato (Photo: Rich Polk/E Entertainment via PA Media/dpa)

#8 Barrio Blue
Blu del Barrio has been playing the role of Adira Tal in the television series “Star Trek: Discovery” for four years – the first non-binary character in the Star Trek universe. Blu del Barrio himself became known as the first openly non-binary actor in the Star Trek cast. With Adira Tal, Blu del Barrio embodies a role that corresponds to her own identity.

The acting talent came out in 2019 and has been using the English pronouns they/theirs ever since. Blu del Barrio had struggled with gender identity all her life. The role of Adira Tal also helped del Barrio appear in public as a non-binary person. Del Barrio chose the name Blu after coming out. It refers to the favorite color – blue.

#9 Sara Ramírez
Anyone who knows the television series Grey’s Anatomy knows Sara Ramírez. Sara Ramírez played the role of Dr. for over ten years. See Callie Torres. The actor is also part of the Sex and the City sequel “And Just Like That…”. For two seasons, Ramiréz played a non-binary person who does stand-up comedy and radio hosting.

In October 2016, Sara Ramírez came out as bisexual for the first time. Four years later, I came out as non-binary. The star wrote on Instagram at the time:
«In me there is the ability to be a girly boy, a boyish girl, a boyish boy, a girly girl. Everything. And none of that.” The corresponding hashtag for the post: #nonbinary – non-binary.

#10 Yūki Kamatani
Yūki Kamatani is a non-binary Japanese person who illustrated and gained international fame through the manga series “Nabari no Ō”. The work tells the story of a boy whose body contains ninja powers. The manga drawn by Yūki Kamatani often deal with transition phases, gender issues and identity crises.

Yūki Kamatani identifies herself as X-gender, a Japanese gender identity outside of male and female genders. In addition, the drawing talent is asexual. Yūki Kamatani came out on Twitter in 2012. There, Yūki Kamatani stated the gender as “toX”. A reference to the abbreviations FTM (female-to-male) and MTF (male-to-female), which transident people use. The “X” makes it clear that Yūki Kamatani does not feel assigned to any gender.

The two main characters of the manga “Nabari no Ō” (Image: Fanart by maeyatsu)

“Let’s tell trans stories better!” – It’s such a thing with the representation of trans people in film and television. All too often, clichés and hurtful ignorance are still at work in Germany. The actress Ilonka Petruschka has set out to change that (TEAM+).