Demi Lovato is putting a label on her sexuality.
The 28-year-old singer has been pretty open about being queer. She even got candid about her failed engagement to ex Max Ehrich as a huge sign of her sexuality.
“When I started getting older, I started realizing how queer I really am,” the 28-year-old singer told the Glamour earlier this month. “This past year I was engaged to a man, and when it didn’t work, I was like, ‘This is a huge sign.’ I thought I was going to spend my life with someone. Now that I wasn’t going to, I felt this sense of relief that I could live my truth.”
However, while Demi was clear about “who I am and what I am,” at the time, she was yet to define her sexuality.
“I’m just waiting until a specific timeline to come out to the world as what I am,” she says. “I’m following my healers’ timeline, and I’m using this time to really study and educate myself on my journey and what I’m preparing to do.”
The time may have arrived during her interview on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
Talking about her sexuality and the desire to have kids one day, she revealed, ““In this moment I want to adopt [children] for sure,” she revealed. “I also don’t know if I’m going to end up with a guy, so I cant really see myself even getting pregnant.”
“I don’t know. I’m so fluid now, and a part of the reason why I am so fluid is because I was super closeted off,” she added.
To which Joe responded, “You mean sexually fluid? You like girls? You like boys?”
“Yeah, anything, really,” Demi replied, and agreed with the host when he asked if she considers herself pansexual, which is defined as not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex, gender, or gender identity.
“I’m part of the alphabet mafia and proud,” she said, referring to the LGBTQIA+ community. “Why can’t we just say queer, y’all? Nah, I’m just kidding.”
Demi isn’t the first celebrity to identify as pansexual. Celebs including Miley Cyrus, Cara Delevingne, and Brendon Urie have opened up about identifying as pansexual.
“I always will remain, I think, pansexual.” Cara previously told Variety, “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.”
Miley has also opened up to the outlet before, saying, “I think when I figured out what it was. I went to the LGBTQ centre 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’,” she added.
Brendon has also spoken about being pansexual. “I’m married to a woman and I’m very much in love with her but I’m not opposed to a man because to me, I like a person. Yeah 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 just like good people, if your heart’s in the right place. I’m definitely attracted to men. It’s just people that I am attracted to,” he told Paper.
