Janelle Monáe appears on our latest cover. Click the link in our bio to read the story in full. In the feature, she opens up about her sexuality and discusses her new album, 'Dirty Computer.' “I want young girls, young boys, nonbinary, gay, straight, queer people who are having a hard time dealing with their sexuality, dealing with feeling ostracized or bullied for just being their unique selves, to know that I see you,” she tells us. “This album is for you. Be proud.” Photograph by Matt Jones (@theonlymattjones)

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Janelle Monae is my current jam. Her new album is so good! It absolutely feels like music that Prince would have produced and then enjoyed, and then he would have performed with Janelle for one night only on a special occasion. Janelle covers the current issue of Rolling Stone, and she used the cover story to “come out” officially. Anyone who has listened to her current album or seen any of her music videos already knew who she is, but this is a nice confirmation:

She’s about to reveal, for the first time, something the world has long guessed, something her closest friends and family already know, something she’s long been loath to say in public. As she sings on a song from her new album, Dirty Computer, “Let the rumors be true.” Janelle Monáe is not, she finally admits, the immaculate android, the “alien from outer space/The cybergirl without a face” she’s claimed to be over a decade’s worth of albums, videos, concerts and even interviews – she is, instead, a flawed, messy, flesh-and-blood 32-year-old human being.

And she has another rumor to confirm. “Being a queer black woman in America,” she says, taking a breath as she comes out, “someone who has been in relationships with both men and women – I consider myself to be a free-ass motherf–ker.” She initially identified as bisexual, she clarifies, “but then later I read about pansexuality and was like, ‘Oh, these are things that I identify with too.’ I’m open to learning more about who I am.”

[From Rolling Stone]

Queer, pansexual, bisexual, whatever you want to call yourself, just be you and have fun with other responsible adults. At least now we know for sure that every single one of us could conceivably have a shot with Janelle! Except that she might be dating Tessa Thompson? God, I hope they’re dating. They are so hot together in Janelle’s “Make Me Feel” video.

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