The 2025 Out100: Karla Mosley

A veteran performer, Karla Mosley (Guiding Light, The Bold and the Beautiful) now stars as Dani Dupree on the CBS daytime drama Beyond the Gates, “the first hourlong soap to center an African-American family with a largely Black cast,” she notes.

Besides Beyond the Gates’ season 2 renewal, Mosley is proud of coming out as queer in 2025 — a time when “violence against queer and trans folks is on the rise, particularly against those in the Black community,” she explains. “As a mother to two young girls, it feels important to me to be open about who I am, because I’m proud of who I am.”

Mosley took “a long time to put into words” that she’s bisexual due to being in “primarily heteronormative relationships.”

“Sometimes I still question why I need to acknowledge this part of myself,” she says. “But when I sit with that question, I realize that it is the remnants of internalized homophobia still raging inside me.”

“For decades, my silent prayer has been to have the courage to show up in any room as my fullest self,” she reflects. “I finally feel like I can.” @karlamose