The musician-actress Janelle Monáe came out as pansexual in an interview this week with Rolling Stone . Within 24 hours, the word catapulted to the top of Merriam-Webster’s searches for the day. Monáe, in the magazine’s cover story, talked about her experience as a queer woman of color in 2018. “Being a queer black woman in America,” she said, “Someone who has been in relationships with both men and women ― I consider myself to be a free-ass motherfucker.” She said she initially identified as bisexual, but then read about pansexuality “was like ‘Oh, these are things that I identify with too.’ I’m open to learning more about who I am.”Merriam-Webster defines the word pansexuality as “of, relating to, or characterized by sexual desire or attraction that is not limited to people of a particular gender identity or sexual orientation.”Many people on Twitter said they didn’t know what the word meant, and contributed to the dictionary site’s surge:

Source: Huffington Post April 27, 2018 14:37 UTC