Miley Cyrus has recently opened up more about the nature of her sexuality, confirming her status as pansexual and giving more insight into her reasons for being so.
The “Wrecking Ball” singer eloquently explains when she first identified herself as being neither straight nor homosexual and how it all began to make sense to her after hearing the story of someone else who she could relate to at the LGBTQ centre.
She recently told Variety magazine, “I think when I figured out what it was. I went to the LGBTQ center here in L.A., and I started hearing these stories. I saw one human in particular who didn’t identify as male or female.
“Looking at them, they were both beautiful and sexy and tough but vulnerable and feminine but masculine. And I related to that person more than I related to anyone in my life. Even though I may seem very different, people may not see me as neutral as I feel.
“But I feel very neutral. I think that was the first gender-neutral person I’d ever met. Once I understood my gender more, which was unassigned, then I understood my sexuality more. I was like, “Oh — that’s why I don’t feel straight and I don’t feel gay. It’s because I’m not.”
Miley Cyrus previously discussed her gender-neutral identity in Paper magazine last year, where she elaborated on her fluid view of relationships.
She told Paper, “I am literally open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn’t involve an animal and everyone is of age. Everything that’s legal, I’m down with.
“Yo, I’m down with any adult — anyone over the age of 18 who is down to love me. I don’t relate to being boy or girl, and I don’t have to have my partner relate to boy or girl.”