Watch: Omar Apollo Opens Up a Bit about Sexuality

Out singer Omar Apollo - who dispelled suggestions that he was queerbaiting with a frank and funny tweet late last year - opened up, if just a little, about his sexuality in a recent interview.

Speaking with GQ about how his first album hit a dead end and had to be re-done from scratch, his love of living in Pasadena, and his Indiana roots, the singer touched on how aware he is of his phenomenal good looks.

"At home he was the only one of three brothers who would tell his sister when her outfit wasn't right; the one whose hair his mother permed to test out styles," GQ recounted.

Saying that the other kids in his family "didn't care" about how they looked, Apollo hesitated, the article noted, before admitting that it was "probably, like, the gay side of me" that accounted for his concern with his appearance.

"Apollo's sexuality has become tethered to his music," GQ explained, adding that "fans see their own fantasies and heartache in his lustful, anguished storytelling."

"Obviously," Apollo told the magazine. "I'm aware of the inheritance of being like..."

The article noted that the pop star "put his head in his hands" at this juncture, before continuing.

"I hate speaking like [this]. Mexican guy... You know? Queer... I get it for sure, I just don't think about it like that."

"He doesn't want to be the poster boy for being gay and Mexican," GQ summarized. "Still, it's hard not to feel something when kids come up to him at shows and explain that they've got parents from the same place or that they're gay, the way they get animated by seeing someone like him make it," the article added.

GC noted that "Growing up gay in a religious community instilled in Apollo a Catholic guilt that he's still grappling with," though, the article went on to add, the "Ugotme" singer is now "more understanding about religion and sometimes even thinks it's kind of beautiful" - though the scars are clearly still there.

"All the rules, man," Apollo told GQ. "Can't be gay. Can't cuss. Can't do drugs. I'm just like, 'What am I supposed to do?' "

The "Evergreen" singer added, "It's terrible. Really heartbreaking. But whatever."

The 25-year-old pop sensation was once notoriously reluctant to define himself in terms of sexual labels, though the subject came up regularly as he did press for his debut album, "Ivory," last year. He told UK newspaper The Guardian in a 2022 interview "I'd rather just make music and talk about what I want to talk about," though he was happy to talk about how fans accepted "the gay love songs" he'd written.

When he did address the subject it was on an oblique manner. "This generation of queer kids don't want to label themselves," the singer told Variety, before adding: "Queer is, I feel, a good label, if we're gonna label it."

Finally, though, in an interview with NPR, Apollo spoke more directly. "I feel like in the beginning, I was trying to be mysterious and stuff, but now I'm just like - I'm very gay, so I'm just like, whatever."

Even more direct was his tweet in response to speculations that he was "queerbaiting" through his lyrics and fashion choices. To that, Apollo tweeted: "no i b sucking dick fr"

In a quick follow-up, he added: "from the back 💯"

There's no doubt, though, that the 6'5" star has just as much a sense for his sex appeal as he does for fashion. Check ojut some of the pics he's posted to Instagram.