Actress & singer Monica Dogra opens up to be a pansexual last year.

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The 39-year-old revealed her sexual orientation while promoting her drama series, The Married Woman in Lucknow.

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Terms like homosexual, bisexual & pansexual have become more visible with awareness among people.

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The term pansexual consists of two words: pan and sexual. Pan means all, so pansexuality means sexual attraction to a variety of, or all genders.

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According to the Human Rights Campaign, "a pansexual person has the potential for emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction to people of any gender.”

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In a recent interview, she shared her journey as a pansexual person.

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Dogra said that she had only ever heard the word pansexual some 5-6 years ago & thought that it described her.

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The actress added that earlier sexual orientations were very black and white.

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"Gay was even a slang word connoting something bad. It was so twisted," she said in a recent interview.

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She added that “Either you were gay or you were straight & if you were gay you certainly weren’t accepted or celebrated."

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