Media portrayal of pansexuality

[7] She confesses she has a crush on a beautiful female teacher, Kaho Mizuki, with the dubbed version of the anime removing many of these themes.

[12] Roger's personas have become a major plot device, with his myriad alter egos frequently being the subject or facilitator of an episode's main story or subplot.

This also helps to amplify his pansexuality and androgynous nature, which varies dependent on the plot situation and persona he has adopted.

Aside from catalyzing the plot or subplot with his various personas, and despite his increasingly evident self-interest, he often serves to counsel the show's main characters, by humorously affirming or bluntly disregarding their opinions.

Let's Be Heroes (2017-2019), an all-ages animation, confirmed Lord Boxman, the founder and CEO of Boxmore, who is obsessed with destroying the plaza and a villain of the series,[16] as pansexual.

He also thanked the "trans, pan, and bi communities" for opening their eyes about these issues, adding they are listening, looking "forward to delving into all of this in future seasons.

: The Secret Archive of Legends, Enchantments, and Monsters, confirmed that the show's protagonist, Salem, a non-binary cryptid, is pansexual.

[26] Romanyszyn is voiced by Asia Kate Dillon, who is a pansexual and non-binary actress, and the character was written as genderfluid, but is feminine-presenting, altering their gender performance several times.

[33][34][35] Megan Townsend of GLAAD criticized the representation, noting that most of the film's references to this "are in service of proving how outrageous his character is.

[38] In May 2018, one of the co-writers of Solo: A Star Wars Story, Jonathan Kasdan, stated that Lando Calrissian, who appeared in the film and other Star Wars films,[d] was pansexual, adding that there is a "fluidity to Donald and Billy Dee's [portrayal of Lando's] sexuality," while admitting that he would have liked to get a "more explicitly LGBT character into this movie.

Some took this to be a "deeply regressive" move by suggesting this to fans without delivering on it, a "piss-poor shot at representation" which reinforces stereotypes, while others said that the fact that Lando "could be pansexual is more than just groundbreaking for mainstream sci-fi films.

[47] Gamble-Eddington also noted the film discusses "the experience of fluidity" that people have when they "as they grow into their identity" and praised Harry's character for breaking the "stereotypical characterization of queer men in media."

[40][52] On March 17, 2014, Sophia, in the fifth episode of Star-Crossed, came out as a "pansexual alien gal" who has a huge crush on a human girl.

[60] While Sarah Kate Ellis, the President and CEO of GLAAD, praised the show for "expanding representation of the spectrum of idenities within the LGBTQ community,"[61] saying that other creators should model this, others criticized the show for making a misstep when it came to pansexuality, like Big Mouth in describing a trans man, adding that "pop culture still has a way to go when it comes to properly representing gender identity.

[71] The first season of Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It on Netflix in November 2017 starred Nola Darling as a "pansexual, polyamorous woman living in Brooklyn.

[73] In October 2018, GLAAD praised Legacies (on The CW) and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (on Netflix) which both featured pansexual characters: Jozie and Ambrose.

It included Iron Bull, a pansexual man who would "happily sleep with all genders and races" and has various romance scenes in the game.

[78] In January 2015, the game was honored by GLAAD with an award for special recognition for LGBT characters like Iron Bull and Josephine, the latter who is bisexual.

[81] In January 2021, it was revealed that Jack from the game Mass Effect 2 was meant to pansexual but objections from Fox News and other media outlets caused them to change their minds.

[68][90] In January 2015, she was later nominated for a GLAAD Media Award in the Outstanding Music Artist category for her record, Dirty Gold.

"[96] Some reviewers pointed to other pansexual singers like Bella Thorne, Demi Lovato (who identifies as "sexually fluid"), Cara Delevingne, Christine and the Queens, Brooke Candy, Amandla Stenberg, and Courtney Act.

[97][31][32][68] In 2017, former librarian Kelly Jensen mentioned Riley Redgate's Seven Ways We Lie (2016), Becky Albertalli's The Upside of Unrequited (2017), and Brandy Colbert's Little & Lion (2017) as examples of young adult fiction with outwardly pansexual characters.