bdmetronews Desk ॥ Bella Thorne revealed she identifies as pansexual in an interview with “Good Morning America” that aired Monday. However, the concept remains unfamiliar for many.
Thorne, who came out as bisexual on Twitter in 2016, said she’s recently realized her sexuality doesn’t fit that label.
“I’m actually pansexual, and I didn’t know that,” Thorne said in the interview. “Somebody explained to me really thoroughly what that is.”
Thorne described her sexuality as favoring someone’s personality more than their body.
“You like beings,” she said. “You like what you like. Doesn’t have to be a girl or a guy or a he or she or they or this or that. It’s literally you like personality. You just like a being.”
While celebrities may be bringing media attention to pansexuality, the concept is not new, according to GLAAD President & CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis.
Q: What does pansexual mean?
A pansexual is a person who is attracted to all gender identities, or attracted to people regardless of gender, according to GLAAD President & CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis.
That means a person who identifies as pansexual may be attracted to a transgender person, someone who goes by by the gender neutral terms of “ze” or “zir,” or someone who identifies as straight or gay.
Jazz Jennings, a transgender teenage woman, told Cosmo, that pansexual means you are “attracted to anyone, no matter their sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, everything.”
“There’s no limits,” she said. “I’ll date anyone. It’s more that I love someone for their soul. Physically, I think I’m more attracted to boys but sometimes I’m attracted to girls too, so it’s weird.”
