Pop-punk star Yungblud has said he hopes his decision to publicly come out as pansexual gives encouragement to others struggling with their sexuality.
The 24-year-old Doncaster star came out as a member of the LGBT+ community last year.
He said he identified as pansexual, meaning he does not recognise gender as part of his attraction to others.
Yungblud, whose real name is Dominic Harrison, appeared on the cover of Hunger magazine and discussed coming out.
He said: "I was just like with it all; 'I'm pan, you know what I’m saying?’ It doesn’t matter what genitalia you’ve got or what you identify as, if I love you, I love you and that’s it, and that’s (something) I’ve struggled with my whole life, because I didn’t know what I was.
"I couldn’t quite put a label on it, then I learned about pansexuality from magazines and the internet and I think it’s so beautiful that sexuality has really come to the forefront of my generation’s mind, that you can be beautifully yourself.
"What I want to encourage with my message is that no matter what you are, no matter how you want to express yourself, you are individual and you are beautiful just by simply existing. I wanted to make a stand so that if anyone’s out there scared to come out, they will come out."
Yungblud is back with a new single entitled Fleabag, a follow-up to his 2020 chart-topping album Weird!.
He said he wanted to subvert expectations with the song.
The award-winning musician, who has worked with the likes of Travis Barker and Machine Gun Kelly, said: "With success, and whatever the f*** 'fame' means, comes expectation.
"I think it’s really scary to fall into people’s expectations, an artist should never become an expectation, because you’re not an expectation, that’s the definition of being an artist … I’m not gonna be the same artist that I am today as I am tomorrow."
Yungblud will play the 3Arena in Dublin in November as part of his Autumn and Winter 2021 Life On Mars Tour.
"I'm so excited to get back on the road, it's been too long now! These shows are going to be double the energy, double the emotion, double the passion," he says.
No stranger to Ireland having played Vicar Street in 2019, he also spent a lot of time in Dublin when he was stepping out with an Irish girl before success came calling.
Speaking to RTÉ Entertainment in May 2020, he said, "I f***ing love Ireland. I've spent a bit of time there. Me ex-girlfriend is Irish so I’ve spent a lot of time in Dublin and 'Cark’ (sic).
"My ex’s name was Clare and we spent a lot of time in Dublin because I was a British Fenian bastard. Hahaha. All her brothers used to take me up to Dublin to see if they could out-drink me but it turns out they couldn’t.
"I'm from the north of England so we’re pretty well rehearsed in drinking. To be honest, I never left Temple Bar."
