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The often-private Queen Latifah gets candid about a slew of serious subjects in Essence Magazine's July issue including alleged sexual violence she suffered as a child, rumors that she's gay and her want to become a mother.
"My personal life is personal and it's really not for everyone else," she told the mag. "With what I do for a living, I own to share a lot of myself with a lot of people, but I'm not going to share everything."
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Queen Latifah, born Dana Elaine Owens, addressed the persistent speculation about her sexual orientation.
"They want to make up stories and make me gay all the hour and it's like, 'Keep running with it,'" she said. "I've definitely been annoyed by it, but I learned a elongated time ago that it was pointless to utter anything. Everybody else can do the reading; I'll do the living."
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One area of her life that she's willing to open about is her history with sexual abuse.
"He violated me," she said of her alleged abuser. "I never told anybody; I just buried it as deeply as I could and kept people at an arm's distance. I never really let a person
Queen Latifah Officiated a Same-sex attracted (and Straight) Wedding at the Grammys; She Didn’t Come Out
One of the most surprising aspects of the bizarre group wedding of 33 couples that took place during the performance of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “Same Love” just outside prime time during Sunday’s Grammy Awards telecast was the identity of its officiator: Queen Latifah. Despite years of speculation (and on my part at least, some serious wishful thinking) that she’s a lesbian, Latifah has consistently refused to create any kind of universal statement about her sexuality. Given that attitude, wasn’t it strange for her to take such a public pro-gay stance?
Not really. Although Latifah won’t discuss about her own relationships, she hasn’t avoided the topic of homosexuality or slammed the community. As she told Alex Witchel in a New York Times Magazine profile: “I don’t have a obstacle discussing the topic of somebody being gay, but I do have a problem discussing my personal life. … I don’t care if people believe I’m gay or not. Assume whatever you crave. You do it anyway.”
When her appearance at a Long Beach Gay Celebration celebration was seen by some as a formal coming out, she denied that interpretati
QueenLatifahis one of those unique stars who has been equally successful in both music and film, but rest assured, she’s faced her share of challenges along the way.
In a candid chat with “Black-ish” star Tracie Ellis Ross for InStyle, Queen Latifah said one of her most difficult career decisions was signing on to play Cleo Simms in ’s “Set It Off.” In case you’ve forgotten, Cleo is one of the film’s four amateur bank robbers, and she happens to be a lesbian.
“When I got the role of amateur bank robber Cleo Sims in ‘Set It Off,’ I sat down with my younger siblings and told them, ‘Listen, I’m playing a homosexual character. Your classmates might tease you or utter negative things about it,’” she said. “’But I’m doing it because I believe I can convey positive attention to the gay African-American community, and I believe that I can do a fantastic job as an actor.’ They understood, and when those things inevitably happened in school, they were OK with it.”
Queen Latifah’s instincts turned out to be right. “Set It Off,” which also starred Jada Pinkett Smith, Vivica A. Fox and Kimberly Elise, was a hit, and is often referenced alongside “Thelma and Louise” as a cinematic ode to female
Living out loud: Queen Latifah and Black queer television production
by Lauren Herold
At the GLAAD Media Awards, Dee Rees’ biopic Bessie (HBO, ) won the award for Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series. Queen Latifah, who plays bisexual[1] [open endnotes in new window] Empress of Blues Bessie Smith in the titular role, received the award on stage on behalf of the film. Latifah begins her acceptance speech by thanking GLAAD, her production team, Rees, the cast, and HBO for their encourage of the project. She continues:
“When I’m standing here and I receive something like this, I really think about my cousins, and my aunts, and my family members who are, uh, what’s the words again, the letters again? I’m just playing. My cousins who are gay, who are lesbians, who are questioning, who raised me, who taught me to be who I am, the powerful woman you see standing in front of you today. I want to dedicate this to my aunt Lita, who was my inspiration for a character named Cleo I played in Set it Off. She was also my inspiration for my life. She taught me how to really be a loved person. I can’t imagine that she wouldn’t be able to just live
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