Troye Sivan Is A Top, And His Met Gala Look Proves It
Australian pop star Troye Sivan has spent years scrambling the rules about what a twink is supposed to look like, sound like and do in the bedroom. As Isabella I. recently put it in Instinct Magazine, Sivan has been “confusing people in the best possible way” for years, and his Met Gala 2026 appearance sent fans back to his old declaration on Emily Ratajkowski’s podcast that, no, he is not a bottom.
The podcast moment people keep replaying
Sivan made the comment in 2023 on High Low With EmRata, an episode that is having a second life online thanks to his Met Gala 2026 outfit. He told Ratajkowski he wanted to clear something up. His track Bloom, which fans had long read as a bottoming anthem, had given people the wrong idea. He is, in fact, a top. The reveal trended at the time, and it is back on the timeline now.
It says a lot about how easily queer men get sorted into boxes. Slim, fashionable, emotionally open and good in a crop top apparently still equals one specific role for some people. Sivan keeps showing up to prove otherwise.
The jockstrap shoot keeps doing its job
His BUTT Magazine cover, where Sivan posed in a jockstrap with a playful smirk, is still circulating years later. The photos lean into softness, humour and confidence rather than hypermasculine posing. That mix is what made the shoot land, and it is what has kept Sivan recognisable as both a pop star and a queer style icon.
A Met Gala look with a serious heart
At the 2026 Met Gala on 4 May, Sivan skipped the usual avant-garde silhouettes and arrived in Prada. The look was thrashed blue denim, a white button-down shirt, a leather tie and a dark coat. The reference was Robert Mapplethorpe’s 1980 fur coat self portrait.
Speaking to Vanity Fair, Sivan said the outfit was a tribute to the downtown New York queer art scene of the 1970s and 1980s. He named Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar, Fran Lebowitz and David Wojnarowicz as touchstones, and reflected on the AIDS crisis and the artists the community lost during that era.
“I see the body as a canvas to play on,” he told the magazine, crediting Mapplethorpe’s self portraiture for the idea. It is a line that explains a lot about Sivan, from his music videos to his fashion to the BUTT Magazine cover.
Breaking type, on and off the red carpet
The Met Gala look and the resurfaced top comments work together. Both refuse the shortcut. He can be soft without being submissive. He can reference queer history one week and break the internet with a thirst trap the next.
That is the appeal. He keeps making it look effortless.
