Because love is love is love.
We live in a world obsessed with celebrities. From getting the weekly gossip in a magazine to following their every moment on Snapchat, we are obsessed with the lives of the famous.
And while the appeal of their glamorous lives makes sense, the celebrities we follow usually have done little or nothing to deserve our “worship” (hello, Kardashians!).
But then we come across those celebrities who are worthy of the role model status we place upon them.
They work as humanitarians like Angelina Jolie or female rights activists like Emma Watson. They help donate a significant portion of their money to worthy causes like J.K Rowling or fight to protect animals everywhere like Ian Somerhalder.
And sometimes, it’s their beliefs and what they stand for, how the stand up for the causes we feel a part of. And in this day and age, the thing we care most about is sex.
Not how or where but with who. We are a society who, on a whole, is more accepting of the choices people have in terms of whom they love and want to be with.
Yes, there are still millions out there who do not accept a person’s right to choose and who believe it is wrong (we are not judging either party ... that’s not the point of this post and just to be P.C., everyone is entitled to their opinion). But as a whole, you cannot deny that things have gotten MUCH better for the LGBTQ community as a whole (hello! — same sex marriage legalization!).
So when a celebrity identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual or even pansexual, it makes them even more the hero (or heroine) as they break down barriers in a public way.
In case you’re unsure of what pansexual means, don’t worry: you’re not the only one. We all know now what the letters stand for in LGBTQ but most of us haven’t heard of pansexual (hint, it has nothing to do with cookware).
Pansexual means that a person falls in love with someone regardless of gender. Yes, it sounds very similar to bisexual but whereas bisexuals fall in love with both genders, pansexuals do not care about genders. They fall for the person regardless if they are male, female, transgender, etc.
Similar, yet totally different.
And if that’s something you identify with, know you are not alone! Here are 9 celebrities who you never knew identified as pansexual.
Miley Cyrus
Miley Cyrus is known as both an actress and a singer as well as all around crazy twerker and all the craziness that is Miley Cyrus. She was the title character in Hannah Montana on Disney Channel, the lead opposite her fiance/ex-fiance/not-really-sure-what-they-are-now Liam Hemsworth in The Last Song and she is the one responsible for the song (and music video) "Wrecking Ball."
Angel Haze
Angel Haze is a famous rapper/singer who also appeared in an episode of Catfish. She has performed songs both on her own CDs as well as on many soundtracks, including "Echelon" from Sisters and "I Own It" from 22 Jump Street, The Duff and plenty of others.
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie-Pitt as she is now known (we still can't get other their marriage!) is an actress, humanitarian, producer and director. She is known for movies such as Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Maleficent, Changeling, and By The Sea (just to name some of her many films) as well as for her amazing humanitarian work across the globe.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong has appeared in a few shows/movies like Nurse Jackie and This Is 40. However, he is most known as the singer and lead guitarist for Green Day and hit songs like "Wake Me Up When September Ends", "Basket Case", "21 Guns" and "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams".
Laci Green
Laci Green is a YouTube vlogger with over 1 MILLION subscribers. She is a sex-ed teacher who posts videos on all different topics from why she's a feminist to what being a pansexual means.
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga is known recently as an actress, most famously for American Horror Story. Most famously she is known as the powerhouse singer of "Bad Romance", "Born This Way", "Paparazzi", and her stunning performance of "Til It Happens to You" at the Oscars for sexual assault victims in 2016.
Jazz Jennings
Jazz Jennings is the 16-year-old transgender teen who is famous for her television show I Am Jazz on TLC as well as her YouTube Videos on her life as a transgender teenager.
Madonna
Madonna is a famous kaballahist, dancer, buisness woman and has acted in movies such as Arthur and the Invisibles and television shows like Will & Grace. However, she is most famous as the "Queen of Pop" singer of her worldwide mega-hits like "Vogue", "Like a Virgin", "Papa Don't Preach", "4 Minutes" and "Like a Prayer".
Deadpool
Ok....so perhaps Deadpool doesn't quite count as a celebrity but with the recent obsession of the superhero portrayed by Ryan Reynolds, we felt like he deserved to be added. Besides, how many superheroes have been depicted as pansexual?
