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Happy Pan Visibility Day! Enjoy some pan history:

Links to podcasts of each of these: Abu Nuwas, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Christina of Sweden, Mary Shelley, Frida Kahlo

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Wayne Brady comes out as pansexual and opens up to PEOPLE about his long road to self-discovery and how his daughter and ex-wife are showing

"Brady — known as much for his deft comic timing as his fully loaded smile — is ready to tell the world how he identifies: “I am pansexual,” he says, meaning that he is attracted to persons regardless of their sex or gender."

Read the full piece here: https://people.com/wayne-brady-comes-out-as-pansexual-exclusive-7569897

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HAPPY PAN AWARENESS DAY MY PAN BITCHES

Love you besties

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As we near the end of Pride, I want to talk about the double-bind of visibility. On one hand, I want to visibly belong in queer spaces. I am a pansexual and demisexual woman. I also also with a cis, straight man. So I am not visibly queer. People often assume that I am a straight woman in queer spaces.

But when you make a "big thing" of your sexuality, many people think you're trying too hard to fit into a label that you aren't. Others assume that if I think my sexuality matters, I must be "available." When I first came out as pan, many, many people close to me asked how it would impact my relationship with my partner, because on some level, they assumed that I only would have come out if it meant change, or if I wanted to get out there and date. Other people mistakenly tie pansexuality to hyper-sexuality, open relationships, or polyamory.

I want to scream at Pride and kiss my partner at Pride and be happy at Pride without being misunderstood by the very queer community I'm a part of. I want to be my cute, chronically ill, plus-sized self looking sexy at Pride, and belong. (And don't even get me started on how my fatness, curves, and chest size play into the double bind of wanting to be visible without hate, judgment, and assumptions made!)

I've been thrilled by celebrities from Janelle Monáe to Miley Cyrus to Kehlani to Gottmik using the label of pansexual because it increases awareness of what the label is—and what the label isn't. Hopefully more representation will help make people understand that pansexuality does not equal poly does not equal hyper-sexual does not equal bi-curious or pretentious-straight. Hopefully, their presence can help me feel more visible and actually seen, and discourage bi- and pan-phobia at Pride and in other queer spaces.

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