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National Pansexual Pride Day

National Pansexual Pride Day

Every year on the 8th of December we commemorate National Pansexual Pride Day in recognition of the struggle by pansexual and panromantic groups for acceptance and understanding. This is a brief timeline:

  • The phrase first came into currency in 1914 under the name “pansexualism,” with the idea that sex was “the prime mover of all things.”
  • In 1970’s – After people started using it as an identity, the definition was changed to refer to sexual orientation.
  • In 1974, The New York Times ran a piece that mentioned pansexuality which promoted its development and created awareness.
  • In the 1990s, the term “sexual fluidity” was coined by gay community to help us comprehend what it means to be pansexual.

On internet there appeared pink-yellow-blue flag of pansexuality in 2010. It was designed to represent a range of trans-, inter-, agender, bigender, third-gender, nonbinary and fluid orientations.

In 2018 singer and actress Janelle Monae came out as a pansexual making this term one of the most searched words on Google that year.

Nowadays many people who identify as being pansexual describe themselves as ‘gender blind’, when it comes to their romantic or sexual attraction towards others. This would be depicted by saying that they are “not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex or gender or gender identity.”

Celebrities like Amandla Stenberg and Miley Cyrus have come out as pansexual stars in recent years raising its profile in modern culture.

Pansexuality has been instrumental in helping LGBTQIA+ communities across our society challenge traditional notions about gender, sexuality and love; enabling them create spaces that are more accepting for other individuals’ self-discovery.