Singer/actress Miley Cyrus has clarified that she still identifies as pansexual, and still loves women.
The pop starlet, who drops her seventh studio album later this month, addressed the subject of her marriage to actor Liam Hemsworth in a new interview with Elle. She struck out at the idea that because she married a man, she does not find herself attracted to women.
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“I’m in a hetero relationship, but I still am very sexually attracted to women,” Cyrus said. “People become vegetarian for health reasons, but bacon is still f*cking good, and I know that. I made a partner decision. This is the person I feel has my back the most.”
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Cyrus grew up in the public eye as the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. She rocketed to tween stardom as the lead on the popular Disney show Hannah Montana, which also helped her launch a career in music. She came out as pansexual/queer and gender-fluid in 2015. She has since remained a vocal advocate for LGBTQ rights.
Cyrus married longtime boyfriend Hemsworth in 2018.
You can read the full interview here.
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Good on her!!
She hasn’t been ascared to be very vocal in her support..
Donston
I do find it strange and kinda funny how so many women and men who marry men stay obsessed with telling people how much they still love and adore women and how much they still have passions and desires towards women. On the other hand, men and women who settle down with women typically just admit to being not heterosexual or homosexual. You almost never have a male or female marry a woman but talk so much about loving and adoring men and still having passions and romantic feelings towards men. It’s a weird dichotomy.
There’s nothing wrong with trying to keep it real. However, the decisions that you make in your life are not in vacuum. You can’t entirely separate from your identity or your sense of self from the choices that you make. Who you marry, who you claim to want persistent love and commitment from have socio-political implications and plays a big role in how people view you and often how they treat you. There’s no way around that. So, trying to be earnest about your life, your struggles, where you are on the romantic, sexual, affection, relationship spectrum is one thing. Constantly seeking validation and desperately wanting to be embraced as “queer” is another thing. And the fact that so many of these types of women feel as if they can dictate identity politics and sexual politics onto men also annoys.
Just live yo’ life Miley and try to find your contentment and peace of mind. And know that whatever you’re doing, however you feel about yourself and whatever your journey is, none of it is in the least bit “unconventional” or “new”, especially for Hollywood.
thisisnotreal
@donston…this is almost orgasmic cuz this is another one of those rare moments where I feel like (sifting through your college professor speech patterns lol) I’m once again on board with what your saying and I think I might need a moment to enjoy this feeling…
But on a serious note yeah I agree with a lot of what your saying. I feel like a person should only need to come out (if they want to) once in their life and then it’s one and done. If a person feels like they need to constantly reiterate their sexual or gender identity then I feel like that’s a symptom of a larger issue (within themselves or maybe society as a whole). Unless your The Amazing Houdini and your sexual or gender identity is in constant lifelong flux, then I personally feel like once you announce what you are your good and that’s that. I don’t see a need to keep going back and polishing off that label from the shelf for people to see it again. And if people want to consider you straight or gay when you’ve labeled yourself as bisexual or pansexual etc, just because of who your currently dating or married to, that sounds like a them problem not a you problem. I personally don’t believe we owe it to the world or even other people to keep reaffirming our identities just because they operate on the assumption that our identities have suddenly changed based on their perceptions of us and what we’re doing. The other part that bugs me is the constant back and forth in society cuz u have the people who refuse to label themselves almost as if they feel they are above labels, or that they want to keep the mystery of themselves, or because they feel like choosing labels is too restricting (I honestly don’t know don’t care) and then you have the people who are like “I’m here in queer get used to it” and then every fifteen minutes they are posting on Instagram or Twitter or making some grand announcement to remind people that “hey in case you forgot I’m still queer and I’m still here” and that to me is equally frustrating. And don’t get me started on the endless list of labels being created these days for everything under the sun. I saw a post once on Instagram that showed the current lgbt acronym and under it a caption that said “the gay rights movement has been reduced to a really strong password” makes you think… last thing I noticed is that every time you said the word queer you put it into quotations and I’m curious why that is? I have a gut feeling that I know what the reason is and if it is I agree, but I wanna see what your actual reason is first.
Cam
@thisisnotreal
Except people have to come out every single day. Every new job, every new person you meet, every party where you and your significant other show up.
But since you’re one of the screenames that always defends the anti-LGBT bigots, I’m not surprised you’re defending the closet and don’t like celebrities reminding people they aren’t straight.
thisisnotreal
@cam honey you know NOTHING about me so kindly shut those lips and use them for other purposes. I’m just as gay as you or anyone else, so no I don’t make a regular habit of kissing the ass of anti lgbt people on the regular. I DO however refuse to drink the kool aid that our community makes that says that anyone who even remotely doesn’t agree with us being gay or living our lives as gay is the absolute anti christ and needs to be exiled to a deserted island. I’ve been friends with plenty of people who either didn’t understand homosexuality or didn’t agree with the lifestyle and that was fine to me. Unlike you sweetie I don’t NEED everyone in my life to approve of my life decisions or my personality traits cuz lord knows I’ve been friends with plenty of people who had traits I didn’t like or did some things I didn’t agree with. If you only surround yourself with yes men and people who are exact clones of yourself you don’t grow as a human being. I only have one rule when it comes to my sexuality and my relationships with people, they don’t need to agree with it or support it, they just need to make sure they aren’t doing anything that will make my life as a gay man harder than it already is in any way shape or form. As long as that box is checked they can feel whatever they want to about me being the way that I am and it won’t bother me. Keeping your friends close and your enemies closer is something our community (and you) could learn from cammy boy, this whole gay mafia stance nowadays of “your either 100% on our side in every possible way or we will destroy you socially financially and mentally” is BS and we’ve gone from the oppressed to the oppressor and ain’t nobody got time for that.
bonbon
This her basically saying “Gays I still want your money!”
curiobi
No shade, just another point of view. Maybe like Allen Cummings when he married a man and found he was suddunly labelled Gay when he always maintained he was Bisexual, Miley found people labelling her straight because she married a man to be inconsistent with her actual orientation.
I could imagine it’s annoying for Bisexuals to have people decide they are straight or gay based on partner choice when they are still Bi.
I freely admit I do not exactly get how Pan differs from Bi, although the Internet suggests a Pan person would be attracted to someone who is trans where a Bi person may not necessarily be… I do feel Pan may be a label that is somwhat circular and makes no real sense? I may be wrong of course. But with regards to Miley, I think she is just trying to lay things out clearly.
I don’t really feel it’s a money grab… That would be Aaron Carter.
Donston
Honestly, as much as people are obsessed with their own sense of self and their identities, the idea of “gay” and “straight” have always been tied to sociology, romantic fulfillment, persistent affections and partnership. That’s the biggest reason why plenty of people who aren’t really hetero or homo still ultimately see themselves and “straight” or “gay”. While perhaps the majority of Hollywood is “queer”. And perhaps most “queers” aren’t really homosexual or heterosexual. So, I sometimes don’t understand what these people are aiming for. Just keep it real and live in your love. I would be way more focused on supposedly having found someone who I am happy with rather than staying obsessed with social, sexual, identity politics. Furthermore, from what I can tell Miley has never even briefly dated a chick. And most straight people don’t really care. So, you’re trying to “prove” something to “queers”, and it’s somewhat tiresome by this point. We’re now living in a world where people are talking about fluidity and their nuances, talking about not being weighed down by “labels”, and discussing the romantic, sexual, affection, relationship spectrum. So, the desire to undermine your life decisions in order to re-iterate your sense of self feels played out and almost entirely political, especially if you’re in a hetero marriage. And as I mentioned, it seems that only people who marry men continue to beat that horse forever.
I guess “pan-sexual” is supposed to mean having some type of attractions, romantic or emotional connections to people of all sexes and gender identities. “Bi-sexual” certainly reflects that to a lot of people. But this persistent focus on, expanding, and contradicting of identities is partly why I stopped giving them so much importance and just support people being honest, living freely and being with who they choose to be with.
Donston
Furthermore, I never assumed Miley was suddenly “completely heterosexual” because she married a dude. In fact, I figured she wasn’t heterosexual before she even came out. Most people know that a great percentage of women have attractions beyond one gender. It’s not really some secret or anything. People didn’t really care all that much when she “came out” because she never dated a chick, was pretty nonchalant about her attractions and sex life, and she eventually married the man who she’d been with for most of her late teen to adult life. People not caring or hyping it up doesn’t mean everyone thinks you’re heterosexual. Most folks tend to place greater emphasis on your situation rather than whatever identity you put out there, and you don’t have any control over that. And most folks just don’t seem to care all that much about females in hetero situations but with some “queerness” in their orientation, beyond folks pushing agendas. Public indifference doesn’t equate to public ignorance.
jcoberkrom
Somebody wants the spotlight refocused on them! Her poor husband who has to do with her being a media whore.
Cam
I always give Cyrus a break. Remember, she told her fans if they didn’t support LGBTQ rights she didn’t need them. She lost some fans over it, so she put her money where her mouth was.
justgeo
Cuz what anything would want her?