06/22/2026
He's the future King of England, and a decade ago he did something no royal had ever dared: he put his face on the cover of a gay magazine. Today Prince William turns 44.
It was 2016, just days after the Orlando nightclub massacre, when William fronted Attitude and sat down with young LGBTQ people who'd been bullied to breaking point. His message to them was simple: you have nothing to be ashamed of.
Three years later he became the first royal to visit an LGBTQ youth homelessness charity, where someone asked how he'd react if one of his kids came out. "Absolutely fine by me," he said - his only worry being how cruel the world might be to them.
When footballer Jake Daniels came out in 2022, William was there with public support. Quietly, he's become the most openly pro-LGBTQ senior royal we've got.
