Queen latifah is she gay
It was small, minor even. In all of the pageantry, hoopla, stunts and shows that come with the annual Met Gala — celebrities decked in haute couture, multiple costume changes, group chats and social media timelines rushing to outdo one another for jokes. But in the middle of all that, Queen Latifah walked the Met Gala Carpet with her longtime partner Eboni Nichols.
When I first saw it, well&#; I screamed a little. Ok, maybe I screamed more than a little. It’s not that we haven’t seen Queen and Eboni walk a red carpet together before, they walked the Oscars carpet together in and more recently they walked a distinct red carpet together for an AmFAR benefit in Queen first publicly acknowledged Eboni, and their son Rebel, from a BET stage by thanking them both as her “love” while accepting her Lifetime Achievement Award. But if you’re a queer person, and especially a Ebony queer person, who has been a part of this community at any point in the last 30 years, I also know that you fetch it.
This is the queen. And after rooting for her journey for so long, after she was a queer awake
Queen Latifah shares &#;love&#; for partner Eboni Nichols at BET Awards
The Queen is beaming with pride.
During her coronation as the Lifetime Achievement doyenne at the BET Awards Sunday, lyrical voluptuary Queen Latifah finally addressed her long-questioned sexual orientation.
“Peace — happy Pride!” exclaimed Latifah (real mention Dana Owens) in the closing remarks of her acceptance speech.
The Grammy Award-winning diva went on to make one of her first public declarations of affection to her longtime partner of nearly a decade, Eboni Nichols.
“Eboni, my love,” said Latifah, 51, touching her heart in salute to Nichols,
“Rebel, my love,” she added, warmly acknowledging the son she and Nichols reportedly welcomed together in
Latifah has savvily sidestepped inquiries into her sexuality since she first stormed the pop culture continuum as a militant mistress of the mic with the classic hip-hop track “Ladies First” in
Throughout the years, the New Jersey-born musician-turned-Golden Globe winner has refused to confirm or
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 help 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 sturdy 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
The often-private Queen Latifah gets candid about a slew of serious subjects in Essence Magazine's July issue including alleged sexual abuse she suffered as a child, rumors that she's gay and her noun 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 noun and it's like, 'Keep running with it,'" she said. "I've definitely been annoyed by it, but I learned a prolonged time ago that it was pointless to verb 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 ju