In an interview with Paper magazine accompanied by racy photos with a pig that should definitely not be viewed at work, Miley Cyrus said she loves the fellows, the ladies and everyone in-between.
“I am literally open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn’t involve an animal and everyone is of age,” Cyrus said. “Everything that’s legal, I’m down with.”
Though some outlets reported Cyrus was bisexual following the interview, that wasn’t exactly right. Not just Cyrus’s sexual orientation, but her very gender identity, it seemed, was evolving.
“I don’t relate to being boy or girl, and I don’t have to have my partner relate to boy or girl,” Cyrus said, adding that she had been romantically involved with women.
Cyrus then told the tale of explaining herself to her mother at age 14.
“I remember telling her I admire women in a different way,” Cyrus told Paper. “And she asked me what that meant. And I said, ‘I love them. I love them like I love boys.’”
This wasn’t easy to hear from Hannah Montana.
“And it was so hard for her to understand,” Cyrus said. “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.”
Rumors of Cyrus’s “bisexuality” have circulated for a few years. Her advocacy for LGBT youth, however, has never been in question. She recently launched an LGBT charity with Joan Jett. And in April, she called out freshman Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., for alleged homophobia.
“Senator Cotton thinks gay community needs to get ‘perspective’ cuz ‘In Iran they hang you for the crime of being gay,’” she tweeted.
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