In the year 20GayTeen, it's becoming more and more apparent that love knows no gender boundaries. In a recent interview with Nylon, Lauren Jauregui said she too is coming to understand that more after coming out as bisexual.
In the interview with Nylon, Lauren said she's learned a lot about gender after coming out as bisexual in 2016, which has confirmed for her that she doesn't really care where on that spectrum her romantic interests fall.
“I’ve learned so much, even about the gender binary since I came out as bisexual, and I’m sure that I could fall in love with anyone as long as their soul was genuine. That’s all that really matters to me. I don’t care about the physical,” Lauren said. “I care about your trauma and sh*t, and if you’re projecting that sh*t on to me. But that’s really it, because, at the end of the day, we’re all just humans and if we’re attracted to each other, we’re just attracted to each other. So, I just explore that fluidity all the time.”
Basically, Lauren is saying that gender doesn't really influence whether or not she's romantically attracted to someone, and that's totally cool. She also noted in the interview that her approach to gender in her romantic life seeps into her music: She said she keeps her lyrics mostly genderless for a reason.
“Most of the songs actually don’t even allude to boy or girl, they’re just you that I’m talking to,” she said to Nylon. “Because it doesn’t matter. Especially when it comes to love, it really doesn’t f*cking matter.”
Lauren went on to give some sage, if explicit, advice.
“Make all the love you want with whoever the f*ck you want," she said. "Why are you gonna waste your time hating yourself ‘cause of who you like or who you wanna f*ck? You might not even like them, you might just wanna f*ck them, and that’s fine!”
Who you love or who you are attracted to doesn't define who you are as a person, and that seems to be what Lauren is getting at.
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