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Amandla Stenberg, the former teen star of "The Hunger Games" who came out every bit bisexual in 2016 when she was 17, says she now realizes she's gay.

In an interview with "Wonderland" magazine, she got right to the point, joking about her "Ellen DeGeneres on the 'Time' encompass" moment."

"Aye, I'm Gay," she told singer Rex Princess, who conducted the interview for the international mag that covers new and established talent in pop culture, including manner, film, music and art.

"I was so overcome with this profound sense of relief when I realized that I'm gay – non bi, not pan, only gay – with a romantic beloved for women," Stenberg said.

Stenberg, now 19, said she had a few big "Gay Sob moments" when she realized her sexuality. Just she said they were joyful and overwhelmed sobs, non "mournful," and that "socialization" kept her from "understanding and living my truth for a while."

She is grateful that being gay has allowed her to "feel and understand love and sex, and therefore life, in an expansive and space way....My sexuality is not a byproduct of my past experiences with men, who I have loved, just rather a part of myself I was built-in with and love securely."

Stenberg first came to notice as ill-fated Rue, Jennifer Lawrence'southward sidekick in "The Hunger Games" in 2012, when she was virtually 13.

In 2016, in a Snapchat video for "Teen Vogue," she came out as bisexual in an try to inspire black women to embrace their identity. Appearing on the mag's cover in February of that year, in an interview written by Solange Knowles, she talked about her budding social-justice activism and her difficulties adjusting to her identity.

"It's deeply bruising to fight confronting your identity and to mold yourself into shapes that you merely shouldn't exist in," she said then. "As someone who identifies as a black bisexual woman, I've been through it and it hurts and it's awkward and information technology'southward uncomfortable."

Stenberg's career has since expanded. She's released her own music, including a Mac DeMarco cover for the new film she's starred in, "Everything, Everything." She was named 1 of the Near Influential Teens by "Time" mag, and has about two million followers online. She appeared in a cameo for Beyoncé's "Lemonade."

She just filmed "The Hate U Give," a drama most constabulary brutality in a poor blackness community, and her sci-fi flick, "The Darkest Minds," and the war drama, "Where Hands Affect," too are landing soon, thus the interview with "Wonderland."

Rex Princess (real proper noun Mikaela Straus) says she remembers walking out of her inferior-year English form reading a headline: "Amandla Stenberg comes out equally a queer."

"She unknowingly set up a precedent in my life, a gold standard of how to exist proud and exist in the intersectionality of multiple identities that were once thought of as beingness alien," KP wrote in an introduction to her interview.

Stenberg said she believes her identities intersect in her life, work and love life.

"Identity is transient and ever-shifting, shaped past our realities and relative to our environments," she said. "I think information technology's a lens through which nosotros navigate the world, then it is inevitable that as I abound and change my experiences of life and beloved permeate the art that I make."

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