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Demi Lovato -

After coming out as "sexually fluid" in 2018, in March 2021 the singer appeared on 'The Joe Rogan Experience' and came out as pansexual. She added that she's "part of the alphabet mafia and proud."

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Janelle Monáe -

The singer first identified as bisexual, but later told Rolling Stone in 2018, "I read about pansexuality and was like, 'Oh, these are things that I identify with too.' I'm open to learning more about who I am."

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Miley Cyrus -

The pop star confirmed she was pansexual to Elle UK in 2015, and in 2019 she told Vanity Fair that, "People fall in love with people, not gender, not looks, not whatever. What I'm in love with exists on almost a spiritual level." She also told Variety that once she learned about pansexuality, “I was like, 'Oh — that's why I don't feel straight and I don't feel gay. It's because I'm not'."

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Brendan Urie -

The Panic at the Disco front man told Paper, "I guess you could qualify me as pansexual because I really don't care. If a person is great, then a person is great [...] I guess this is me coming out as pansexual."

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Bella Thorne -

Bella Thorne said in an interview with Good Morning America that she identifies as pansexual. She explained that after someone told her what it meant, she realized she’d no longer felt the bisexual label was right for her.

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Jameela Jamil -

The star came out as queer in 2020, later explaining, "I don't know if that means that I'm pansexual. But I don't just fancy cis straight men; I fancy everyone."

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Cara Delevingne -

The model and actress told Variety, "I always will remain, I think, pansexual." She continued, "However one defines themselves, whether it's 'they' or 'he' or 'she,' I fall in love with the person—and that's that. I'm attracted to the person."

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Kesha -

In 2010, Kesha wouldn’t label herself as either gay or straight and insisted she liked "people." Although she's never come out as pansexual, she also told Seventeen in 2013, "I don't love just men. I love people. It's not about a gender. It's just about the spirit that exudes from that other person you're with."

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Yungblud -

The British singer came out as pansexual to Attitude in December 2020, adding: "My sexuality is mine and I'm proud of it...I love everyone. I'm attracted to everyone."

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Sia -

Singer-songwriter Sia has never officially labelled her sexuality, but she once told Same Same, "Before I was actually successful, I'd always said I've always dated boys and girls and anything in between. I don't care what gender you are, it's about people. I've always been … well, flexible is the word I would use."

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Sarah Paulson -

Sarah Paulson has never labeled her sexuality, but she told Pride Source, "All I can say is, I've done both, and I don't let either experience define me … I'm sorry if that is something that is seen as a rejection of or an unwillingness to embrace [my sexuality] in a public way, but it's simply not. It's simply what's true for me, and that's all I can speak to."

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Lizzo -

Lizzo hasn't explicitly said she's pansexual, but she told Teen Vogue, "When it comes to sexuality or gender, I personally don't ascribe to just one thing." In her Tiny Desk Concert with NPR, she implied that she's inclusive of all gender identities.

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Amber Heard -

Amber Heard first came out as bisexual, but in the years following she found the label too restrictive. "It's limiting, that LGBTQ thing," Heard told Allure. "It served a function as an umbrella for marginalized people to whom rights were being denied, but it loses its efficacy because of the nuanced nature of humanity [...] I don't care how many letters you add. At some point, it's going to spell 'WE ARE HUMAN.'"

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Emily Hampshire -

The Canadian actress, best known for her role on 'Schitt's Creek,' came out as pansexual in 2019, explaining in a tweet that she had actually learned about pansexuality from the show!

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Amandla Stenberg -

In 2016, Stenberg spoke openly about their pansexual orientation with Teen Vogue, though they added, "The thing is I use the word bisexual just because I feel like for people who don't necessarily know that vocabulary… it's easier to say I'm bi."

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Jazz Jennings -

Jazz Jennings was one of the youngest people to ever come out publicly as trans (at age six), and has since become a YouTube star and LGBTQ activist. In 2018, Jennings tweeted, "I am pansexual. This means that I am attracted to people at a level that surpasses gender identity or sexual orientation. I love people for their souls and internal beauty."

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Héloïse Letissier -

The Christine and the Queens singer appeared on BBC 100 Women's series, and said that pansexuality "means that I can fall in love with someone regardless of their gender, regardless of how they define themselves. I don't really see that as an obstacle, as a definition."

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Nico Tortorella -

'Younger' star Nico Tortorella told The Advocate, "I believe in the spectrum, the full universe of gender and sexuality, and probably I fall more into the pansexual fluid terms which fall into the umbrella of bisexual in LGBTQ-plus,” though they still refer to themself as bisexual to help fight bi erasure.

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Rina Sawayama -

The Japanese-British singer previously identified as bisexual but came out to Broadly in 2018 as pansexual. She said her song 'Cherry' is about "the truth for a lot of bi and pan people–they don't feel authentically queer when they're in heterosexual relationships.”

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Madison Bailey -

‘Outer Banks’ actress Madison Bailey revealed she was pansexual via TikTok in May 2020, and said later in an Instagram Live: "I feel zero shame, and I don't feel that way because nobody's ever really shamed me for it."

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Asia Kate Dillon -

'Billions' star Asia Kate Dillon identifies as non-binary and told the Huffington Post, "Well, from the time I came to understand sex and sexual orientation, and all of that, I've identified as pansexual and I've always felt like I had the spiritual, emotional, physical capability of being attracted to any gender."

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Caitlin Stasey -

Australian actress Caitlin Stasey revealed that she identifies as pansexual at the GLAAD Awards in 2014. "It's not a big deal to me,” she's said. 

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Tess Holliday -

Speaking to Nylon in 2019, model Tess Holliday said, "I've been thinking a lot about my relationship to my own queerness, and I think the word pansexual speaks to me more than bi does."

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Courtney Act -

Courtney Act, also known as Shane Jenek, is a beloved drag queen known for her appearances on various reality TV shows, and is a loud and proud pansexual.

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Roes (formerly Angel Haze) -

Rapper Roes spoke to MTV about her sexuality in 2013, saying, "I see people for who they are... I don't base all of my relationships off of sex." When she was asked if she identifies as pansexual, she said. "It exactly is... If I had to identify, that is the term I'd use to describe how I feel."

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Brooke Candy -

The singer, rapper, and songwriter told Hunger TV in 2014 that she’s come to the conclusion that she feels "more pansexual” than gay. "I feel like I'm awakening to this new stage of consciousness but my message will always be the same."

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Tana Mongeau -

For Pride month in June 2020, the YouTuber tweeted that she is "pansexual as hell” and in a lengthy post on Instagram she wrote, “I'm proud to say I will live my life based on loving people not for their gender but their soul. Some people call that pansexuality, everyone calls me bi, I personally don't find a need to label it all. Love and sexuality is gender less to me."

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Joe Lycett -

Comedian Joe Lycett initially identified as bisexual, but he told Gay Times in 2015, "I identify more now as pan. I didn't know what that was until about a year or so ago … Gender is fluid and I think it's absolutely fascinating."

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Steve Lacy -

The musician, who is also the guitarist of The Internet, came out as pansexual and is credited with creating a “pansexual anthem” with his nine-minute song ‘Like Me,' wherein he declares he does not see gender, only energy.

Sources: (Seventeen) (Elle) (Cosmopolitan) (Rolling Stone) (Paper Magazine) (Variety) (BBC) (HuffPost) (Gay Times) (Pride Source) (The Advocate) 

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