Chappell Roan: I Don't Know Everything Just Because I'm Gay!
Chappell Roan attends Valentino "Le meta-theatre des intimites" show as part of Paris Fashion Week on March 09, 2025 in Paris, France Source: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images for Valentino

Chappell Roan: I Don't Know Everything Just Because I'm Gay!

Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 3 MIN.

Chappell Roan is sticking to her boundaries: The "Good Luck, Babe!" singer made her feelings known about being viewed as an oracle on LGBTQ+ topics.

Roan was a guest on the March 25 episode of the "Call Her Daddy" podcast, where she "explained to host Alex Cooper how it can be a double-edged sword as people then expect her to know everything about every topic," The Hollywood Reporter relayed.

Saying that she's routinely "asked a lot of fucking crazy questions that a lot of my peers would not get asked," Roan posited, "People expect me to play by different rules because I'm gay and [expect that] I should be more politically correct about that, and I should actually be way more knowledgeable about it."

Roan acknowledged that "I have my opinions," but, she added, "I don't know everything about every topic I have opinions on, like being gay."

It's not just queer topics people expect her to be an expert on, the Grammy-winning artist added.

"Like, I don't know everything about being a woman," Roan exclaimed. "I don't know everything about fucking fashion or drag or performing."

"I try to know everything I can," she went on to say, "but when I don't answer a question correctly or I don't acknowledge one community, it's like, how can I do it all?"

Wondering about fellow performers, Roan went on to wonder, "How can these girls tour, write, perform, interview, sleep, eat and workout? And how can they do all and lead a team and be a boss and pay people and be like fucking so politically educated."

Roan has been outspoken about the pressures of fame and the expectations of the public, posting a video on social media last year in which she dressed down handsy fans and those who "stalked" her.

"I don't care that abuse and harassment, stalking, whatever, is a normal thing to do to people who are famous or a little famous," the "Hot to Go" chanteuse said in the clip.

"I'm allowed to say no to creepy behavior, okay?" she added.

She also posted an essay on Instagram in August in which she explained that simply being a performer was not the same as granting a license to fans to touch or talk to her.

"When I'm on stage, when I'm performing, when I'm in drag, when I'm at a work event, when I'm doing press... I am at work," Roan stated in the post. "Any other circumstance, I am not in work mode. I am clocked out."

Her admonishments seemingly have had the desired effect.

"I think I made a big enough deal about not talking to me that people do not talk to me," Roan told the "Call Her Daddy" podcast. "That's, I think, the truth of it all, and I've been with people, like friends who are artists, and when they're with me, they're like, 'It's a force field around us. People don't come up to me if I'm with you.'"

Roan said she encourages others to follow her example.

"I'm just like, 'Damn, baby. You say it too. You say, don't touch me, don't touch me,'" the "Pink Pony Club" singer said. "'Don't look at me, don't touch me. I don't know who you are,' and they won't come up and bother you."


by Kilian Melloy , EDGE Staff Reporter

Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.

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