“Brussels Singer Angèle Opens Up About Being Pansexual and Overcoming Shame”

“I can fall in love with a boy, a girl, a non-binary person or a transgender person,” explained the Brussels singer. Pansexual means you fall in love with people regardless of their gender or gender identity. “The feeling of love, having butterflies in your stomach, whether it’s with a girl or a boy, it’s the same for me.”

Angèle was 23 years old when she discovered that she was also attracted to women. Even as a young girl she also experienced feelings for other girls, but because she was ashamed and thought it was “not normal”, she tried to ignore it. “Between what we feel and what we admit to ourselves, years can pass. I waited 23 years before confessing that I was in love with a girl,” she continued in the interview with France 2. “I didn’t want it to be a secret anymore. When I was a kid, I didn’t want to dwell on the feelings I had for a girl. I thought it was not normal, because I only saw straight couples around me.”