Hunger Games star Amandla Stenberg has come out as gay in an in-depth interview with Wonderland magazine.
When asked what they love about being gay, Stenberg, who played Rue in the popular film franchise, replied: "I'm grateful for how being gay has afforded me this ability to experience and understand love and sex, and therefore life, in an expensive and infinite way."
They continued: "The continual process of unlearning heteronormativity and internalised homophobia can be difficult, but one of the biggest blessings lies in the magic that comes from having to understand love outside the confines of learned heterosexual roles.
"My sexuality is not a byproduct of my past relationships with men, who I have loved, but rather a part of myself I was born with and love deeply."
"So happy to say the words 'Yep, I’m Gay" in official print," the actor then wrote on social media, alongside an excerpt of the interview, which was conducted by Stenberg's friend and queer recording artist King Princess.
Stenberg had previously come out as bisexual via Snapchat.
“It’s a really, really hard thing to be silenced and it’s deeply bruising to fight against your identity and to mold yourself into shapes that you just shouldn’t be in,” they said in the 2016 video.
“I would also use the word pansexual to describe my sexuality,” they later clarified.
“The thing is I use the word bisexual just because I feel like for people who don’t necessarily know that vocabulary… it’s easier to say I’m bi.”
