Unless you’ve had your head deep in the sand the past few years, you already know that Miley Cyrus is a precocious entertainer who dances to the beat of her own drum. The pop superstar has posed nude for a provocative photo shoot (sometimes covered in body paint, sometimes with a candy phallus dangling from her crotch, and in one pic she embraces a pig) for Paper magazine who describes her as “perhaps her generation’s most unlikely social activist, and also one of its most powerful.” It’s hard to argue with this assessment, for Cyrus doesn’t hold back in the interview, revealing again that she doesn’t discriminate when it comes to sexual partners and made up her mind about her sexual fluidity when she was a young teen. Now 22, the singer has founded a non-profit, The Happy Hippies, to raise funds and awareness for homeless and LGBT youth. Partly inspired by the death last year of Leelah Alcorn, a transgender girl who committed suicide after being forced to undergo so-called “conversion therapy.” Cyrus is refreshingly and unsurprisingly candid in the interview. “We can’t keep noticing these kids too late,” she tells Paper.
We learn Miley is a roll-with-the-flow kinda girl.
“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.”
She was just 14 when she told her mother that she was attracted to both males and females:
“I remember telling her I admire women in a different way. And she asked me what that meant. And I said, I love them. I love them like I love boys. And it was so hard for her to understand. She didn’t want me to be judged and she didn’t want me to go to hell. But she believes in me more than she believes in any god. I just asked for her to accept me. And she has.”
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Clark35
*yawn* who cares? I was 14 when I came out as bisexual too, to my school, and my mom always knew since she caught me with a male friend once.
takingliberties
In other news, water is wet.
1EqualityUSA
Thank you for helping the LGBT homeless.
Bob LaBlah
I would have to check her record sales before I bought this one. Only ONE singer sold one million copies last year. ONLY ONE. Taylor Swift. You’d be surprised how many of them are desperate to stay relevant.
boring
Of course, how many records are sold is the ONLY reasonable way to judge art. You’re not valid unless you’re making money. Tsk tsk to those who aren’t selling a MILLION albums in 2015. Are you even on the radio? Are you on Jack F.M.? You’re creative output is completely irrelevant if you’re not, don’t make me laugh.
God, people are so gross.
boring
Like, I was going to turn this into a pissing contest and point out I knew about my bisexuality when I was 8, but when you bring up the MORE MONEY = BETTER THAN argument, weelllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll…
Bob LaBlah
@boring: Why thank you for your “encouraging” comments and summation of my taste and talent. And to think I used to sit around with the fellows and try to convince them we ought to go down to station HICK-fm and see if they would sponsor our tour. Heres a sample, oh, and by the way, for the life of me I can’t figure out why we aint been offered a contract from no one in ol’ uppity ass Nashville neither. Here, you judge and see if you can tell me why cause I just can’t figure it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAAKPJEq1Ew
jason smeds
Anything Miley Cyrus says should be taken with a grain of salt. She will say almost anything in order to get attention.
Fang
I think it’s great that she’s helping out homeless LGBT youth. That’s a serious issue that doesn’t get enough attention from our marriage-centric propaganda. I hope the non-profit follows through with its goals!
mikelphx
What a skanky ass whore…