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Amandla Stenberg isn’t afraid to talk about her true sexuality, even if she had to come out twice to get there.
Stenberg graces the cover ofSeventeen’s October/November issuewhere she sheds more lighton her decision to clarify that she is gayin 2018 after previously coming out as bisexual two years prior.
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The Hate U Giveactress, 19, has been dating fellow 19-year-old musician King Princess, whose real name is Mikaela Straus, since earlier this summer. The two made one of their first major public appearances at the 2018 VMA Awards last month.
Stenberg said that “internalized homophobia” delayed her acceptance of her sexually and admitted to feeling “so much discomfort around hooking up with dudes.” But when she was intimate with girls, Stenberg said “it was the happiest I’d been in any sexual dynamic.”
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“I love that we have this umbrella term ofqueer,and so many things can exist underneath it, but I realized that part of my journey was hiding underneath that umbrella, because I was scared—on a personal and a public level—to confront what I was. It was easier for me to say ‘I’m bi’ or ‘I’m pan’ as I was figuring it out. But I came to a place where I felt really proud of my sexuality, and I decided I wanted to share that pride,” she explained.
The Hate U Giveis in theaters Oct. 5.
source: people.com
