‘I hope that through talking about it, people will [learn about] it who maybe didn’t even realise it was a thing at all' Potential LibDems Leader LaylaMoran Has Come Out As Pansexual
as Lib Dem leader, gave the insightful interview yesterday revealing that she met her current partner, former Lib Dem press officer Rosy Cobb, at work and was surprised by the relationship having previously only dated men.
Calling the relationship ‘really committed, loving and supportive’ she said that once she came out, there was a lot of pressure to label her sexuality. ‘When I’ve spoken to people about it, the first thing they ask is, “so you’re gay then?”,’ she said. ‘When it first happened, it didn’t strike me that I needed to work out which box I fit into.
When asked to describe her definition of pansexuality, she told the publication ‘to me, it means it doesn’t matter about the physical attributions of the person you fall in love with, it’s about the person themselves. It doesn’t if they’re a man or a woman or gender non-conforming, it doesn’t matter if they identify as gay or not. In the end, these are all things that don’t matter – the thing that matters is the person, and that you love the person.
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