Miley Cyrus Wants to Redefine What Queer Relationships Can Look Like

In a new interview with Vanity Fair largely centered around how her world has changed since losing her home in the Woolsey fire last year, Miley Cyrus also took some time to open up about her marriage to Liam Hemsworth, and her identity as a queer person.

Her decision to get married seemed out of character to some people, including Cyrus herself, who admitted it seems like an old-fashioned idea on the surface.

“But I think the reason we got married isn’t old-fashioned,” she countered. “I actually think it’s kind of New Age. We’re redefining, to be fucking frank, what it looks like for someone that’s a queer person like myself to be in a hetero relationship.”

Cyrus has always been a firm believer that people fall in love with people for who they are, rather than for their gender, a point she stresses again in the interview.

“Like, who gives a fuck if he’s a guy, if I’m a girl, or if he was a woman—who gives a fuck? We really are stronger together.”

It seems to be for that reason that Cyrus decided to go ahead and tie the knot with the youngest Hemsworth only a month and a half after losing the home they shared. Though she says the loss of their house changed both of them, she insists the marriage did not, and just grew from a natural point of having gone through so much together.

And even though she wore a dress and straightened her hair on her wedding day, she wants everyone to know that doesn’t suddenly make her a “polite hetero lady.”

“Being someone who takes such pride in individuality and freedom, and being a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, I’ve been inspired by redefining again what a relationship in this generation looks like,” she said.

“Just because something changes in my relationship doesn’t mean something has to drastically change in my individuality.”