20 celebrities who came out as pansexual

These celebs are bringing some much-needed pan visibility to the mainstream just by being themselves!

The term pansexuality has gained popularity over the years as more people identify with the term in regard to their sexuality.

For those unfamiliar, pansexual individuals feel an attraction to all gender identities regardless of what they are. Thanks to some celebrities who proudly identify as pan, it's finally gaining some much-needed visibility toward the identity. Here are 20 celebrities who identify as pansexual.

Wayne Brady

Wayne Brady came out as pansexual in 2023, telling People, "To me, pan means being able to be attracted to anyone who identifies as gay, straight, bi, transsexual or non-binary. Being able to be attracted across the board. And, I think, at least for me for right now, that is the proper place."

Emily Hampshire

Schitt's Creek star Emily Hampshire came out in an interview on Demi Lovato's 4D with Demi Lovato podcast, and she thanked the show for helping her figure it out.

“[David Rose] says, ultimately he likes the wine, not the label, and that he’s pansexual. I had never heard the word pansexual before,” she said. “I’ve always considered myself super knowledgeable about LGBTQ+ stuff just because everybody in my life, my friends, are all mostly LGBTQ+ people, but I didn’t know this.”

Bob the Drag Queen

Bob the Drag Queen took the crown for the eighth season of RuPaul's Drag Race, and this queen has long been open about the fact he is nonbinary, polyamorous, pansexual, and uses he/him or she/her pronouns.

He told Psychology Today, “I am pansexual as I actually remember also being attracted to women as well and thinking that maybe this like, thing where I was attracted to men was just like some weird phase or if it was something I could just ignore. My mom is queer and I have a queer uncle. So, I wasn't completely, you know, shielded from queer representation.”

Jena Malone

Hunger Games star Jenna Malone came out as pansexual during an interpretive dance in 2022.

“I guess it felt like I was a heterosexual man in a woman’s body. I visualized his desires and placed them on to me. But this, was never the whole of the story that was meant for me,” she wrote. “My sexual identity has more to teach and to tell me. Finding words that feel more right to explore in my telling. Pansexuality. Sapiosexuality. Polyamory.”

JoJo Siwa

JoJo Siwa came out in 2021, but at the time, she said she wasn’t ready to put a label on herself. A few months later, she told People that she likes to consider herself “Ky-sexual” because her then-girlfriend was named Kylie.

Not long after, she told Seventeen, “I always just say gay because it just kind of covers it or queer because I think the keyword is cool. Technically I would say that I am pansexual because that’s how I have always been my whole life is just like, my human is my human.”

Nico Tortorella

Actor Nico Tortorella addressed their sexuality with our sister magazine,The Advocate, saying, “There are those pockets of the world, in so many places, that ‘gay’ just doesn’t exist, where there’s no representation. And it’s not that different than the representation that existed in Hollywood for the last hundred years… There’s like one love story and it’s between a white man and a white woman.”

They added, “I believe in the spectrum, the full universe of gender and sexuality, and I probably fall more into the pansexual fluid terms which fall into the umbrella of bisexual in LGBTQ+.”

Rebecca Black

It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday! Okay, enough of that, but Rebecca Black stormed onto the scene with the either love-it-or-hate-it bop back in the early 2010s, and she’s continued to work toward making a name for herself in the industry.

A few years ago, on the Dating Straight podcast, Black publicly came out as pansexual, saying, “One of the things that I love so much about the LGBTQ community is that they embrace inclusiveness. I definitely see sexuality as being on a spectrum. You can definitely be on one end of the spectrum or the other. With there being a spectrum, there is this huge middle ground. I definitely see myself as being on that spectrum.”

Janelle Monáe

The Moonlight actror and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter came out officially in April 2018 during an interview with Rolling Stone.

"Being a queer black woman in America," the 32-year-old began, "someone who has been in relationships with both men and women – I consider myself to be a free-ass motherfucker." (Monáe came out as nonbinary in 2020)

Monáe initially identified as bisexual, so they clarify, "but then later I read about pansexuality and was like, ‘Oh, these are things that I identify with too.' I'm open to learning more about who I am."

Miley Cyrus

The pop music icon and longtime LGBTQ+ activist came out as pansexual in a 2015 interview with Elle magazine's UK publication. Talking about her sexuality, she said simply, "I’m very open about it – I’m pansexual."

Angel Haze

"I’m an avid Tumblr user, and sometimes I see myself on my dashboard," the rapper said during a 2014 interview with Out about the gratefulness she has for being able to represent pansexuality to her fans and the masses. "People talking about me, like, 'I’m glad there’s an actual woman of color representing queerness and pansexuality, someone who is like me in the spotlight.' You don’t want to have so many goddamned people who are exactly the same that people who are inherently different aren’t connected to anything."

Asia Kate Dillon

Asia Kate Dillon, whose role as Taylor on Showtime's Billions broke ground as the first non-binary character on North American television, has identified as pan for a while, telling HuffPost in 2017 "...from the time I came to understand sex and sexual orientation, and all of that, I’ve identified as pansexual and I’ve always felt like I had the spiritual, emotional, physical capability of being attracted to any gender."

Jazz Jennings

"I am pansexual," reality TV star and trans activist Jazz Jennings declared on Twitter in January of 2018. "This means that I am attracted to people at a level that surpasses gender identity or sexual orientation. I love people for their souls and internal beauty."

Courtney Act

The Drag Race icon and Celebrity Big Brother winner opened up about being pan in February of 2018 during an interview with Attitude magazine.

"It’s important to acknowledge bisexual, pansexual," she said. "We have such a rigid idea of what heterosexuality is and that’s problematic. We have such a rigid idea of what gay is and that’s also problematic."

"The reason I identify as pansexual is not because I wander around the street looking at women thinking I wanna bang ’em, it’s because I’ve had sexual and emotional experiences with women, and I don’t count that out as being a possibility," she added.

Bella Thorne

The actress and former Disney Channel star, who previously identified as bi, came out as pansexual in a 2019 interview with Good Morning America.

"I'm actually a pansexual, and I didn't know that," she said. "You like beings. You like what you like. Doesn't have to be a girl, or a guy, a he, a she, a they, or this or that. It's literally...you like personality. You just like a being."

Tess Holliday

Plus-size model Tess Holliday opened up about being pan in the July 2019 issue of Nylon.

"I've been thinking a lot about my relationship to my own queerness, and I think the word pansexual speaks to me more than bi does," she said when asked about how she identifies on the LGBTQ+ spectrum.

Brendon Urie

The Panic! at the Disco frontman opened up about claiming the pansexual label in an interview with Paper Magazineback in 2018.

"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," he said. "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."

Cara Delevingne

During a 2020 interview with Variety, the supermodel turned actress opened up about how she identifies on the LGBTQ+ spectrum as pansexual. (She previously came out as bi in 2015 and also identifies as gender-fluid.)

"I always will remain, I think, pansexual," the Carnival Row and Suicide Squad said. "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."

Tana Mongeau

For Pride Month 2020, the popular YouTube personality and content creator took to her Instagram account to share a message with her fans about how she identifies as pansexual.

"I never thought I’d be brave enough to publicly share my sexuality in the way I do now," Mongeau (who was previously in a relationship with actress and fellow pansexual celebrity Bella Thorne for two years from 2017-2019) captioned a picture of her holding hands with Noah Cyrus. "I still struggle with it. I hate the boxes, I hate people telling me I’m straight or discrediting my relationship if I’m with a girl. But I’m proud to be not only a member, but an ally of the LGBTQIA+ community and I’m proud to say I will live my life based on loving people, not for their gender, but their soul."

"Some people call that pansexuality, everyone calls me bi, I personally don’t find a need to label it all. Love and sexuality is genderless to me and I’m so lucky to have this platform to speak openly about that."

Madison Bailey

The Netflix Outer Banks star opened up about her pansexuality during a 2020 Instagram Live Q&A.

"I feel zero shame, and I don’t feel that way because nobody’s ever really shamed me for it and I know a lot of people have had lot of hate and lack of support. I know so many, countless stories of queer people that did not have support," she said of her coming out experience. "But if you’re asking me personally, that’s just my experience with it. It was worth it. I feel lighter, I feel happier that I can just be so open and honest. It feels nice."

Demi Lovato

In March 2021 interview on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the 28-year-old, Grammy-nominated singer, who has been publicly open about being queer and talking about her sexuality (and her attraction to both men and women) in the past, was comfortable enough to label herself as pansexual.

"I'm so fluid now — and a part of the reason why I am so fluid is because I was super closeted off," she told Rogan.

"You mean sexually fluid?" Rogan asks. "You like girls? You like boys?"

"Yeah, anything, really" Lovato responded.

"What do they call that? Like pansexual or something like that?" Rogan then asks.

"Yeah, pansexual," Lovato confirmed.