David Archuleta is reflecting on his journey as part of the LGBTQ+ community. The singer came out in 2014 as gay to his family, and seven years later, he took social media to share with the world his sexual orientation publicly.
After going viral, in an interview with TODAY, the star reveals how he feels after sharing the news. “I was shocked, because I thought, ‘OK, this is probably going to be a bigger deal, maybe I’ll get 30,000 or 40,000 likes, if that,’ because I know this is a controversial topic and a lot of people have assumed things about me and tried to label me in the past,” he told the publication. “But it exploded.