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Hollywood’s understanding of sexuality keeps expanding, and pansexuality has become the term more celebrities are using to describe it.

Pansexuality — attraction to a person regardless of their sex or gender identity — has moved from a niche label into mainstream conversation largely because famous people have claimed it publicly. Nicki Swift’s video roundup, “Celebs Who Have Come Out As Pansexual,” traces that shift through eight names, from pop stars to a Marvel antihero, each explaining in their own words why “pan” fit better than the labels they’d used before. The throughline is simple: attraction to the person, not the body or the pronoun.

• Miley Cyrus came out as pansexual in 2015 interviews with Elle UK and Paper, then told Variety in 2016 that her own gender-neutral identity clarified her sexuality.
• Janelle Monáe told Rolling Stone in April 2018 that after years identifying as bisexual, reading about pansexuality resonated with her experience as a queer Black woman.
• Deadpool’s own creators — co-creator Fabian Nicieza and film director Tim Miller — confirmed the Marvel character is pansexual, freely flirting across the gender spectrum.

Miley Cyrus Sets the Tone

Cyrus was arguably the first A-list name to make pansexuality a household conversation. In her 2015 sit-downs with Elle UK and Paper magazine, she described her attractions as having no fixed gender preference. A year later, talking to Variety in 2016, she went further, explaining that not assigning herself a gender helped her understand her sexuality wasn’t fixed either — a point she’s returned to repeatedly in interviews since.

Janelle Monáe’s Rolling Stone Moment

Monáe’s April 2018 Rolling Stone interview is the freshest and most talked-about entry in the lineup, and it’s the one that drove a spike in searches for “pansexual” that spring. She told the magazine she’d identified as bisexual before, but the language around pansexuality fit her experience as a queer Black woman more precisely once she read into it.

She said reading about pansexuality “resonated” with her — a queer Black woman’s experience that bisexual alone didn’t fully cover.

Jazz Jennings and Angel Haze on Loving the Soul

Jazz Jennings, the transgender advocate and star of TLC’s I Am Jazz, told Cosmopolitan she identifies as pansexual because she falls for someone’s soul, with no limits tied to sex or gender identity. Rapper Angel Haze, who is agender, described the same idea to BuzzFeed and The Guardian — wanting connection and love without boundaries around gender at all.

Sia, Sophie B. Hawkins and Brooke Candy

The roundup also credits musicians who’ve pushed against binary labels for years rather than making a single splash interview. Sia and Sophie B. Hawkins have long described their attractions as extending beyond gender lines, with Hawkins frequently calling herself omnisexual rather than bisexual or pansexual specifically. Brooke Candy rounds out the musical side of the list, having built a career and public persona around challenging conventional sexual and gender binaries.

Even Deadpool Counts

The video’s final entry isn’t a real person at all. Marvel’s Deadpool has been confirmed as pansexual by the people who made him — comic co-creator Fabian Nicieza and 2016 film director Tim Miller both said on record that Wade Wilson flirts across the entire gender spectrum without discrimination. It’s a small detail, but it’s notable that a mainstream superhero franchise let that stand as canon rather than subtext.

Between Cyrus’s 2015 comments, Monáe’s April 2018 Rolling Stone interview, and Deadpool’s confirmed canon, the list makes one thing clear: pansexuality didn’t need a single defining coming-out moment to go mainstream — it built up name by name, interview by interview, until Nicki Swift had enough for a full rundown.