Is queen latifah is gay
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Queen Latifah – born Dana Owens in Newark, New Jersey – has elongated been considered a lesbian or queer icon, despite (until recently) never confirming that she herself is queer. For much of Latifah’s long, varied career (in music, film, and television) she has remained resolutely vague about her personal life, while at the same time playing a number of iconic queer roles and twice as many linear ones. Indeed, one of the reasons I wanted to include Latifah in this “Anatomy of a Lesbian Icon” series is because of how she differs from some of the other icons I’ve mentioned – those who are beloved in part because of their colorful queer digital dating history (Kristen Stewart, Cara Delevigne) or those who are ostensibly straight but play queer roles (Rachel Weisz, Cate Blanchett).
It has long been rumored that Latifah is queer – from paparazzi shots of her with women to the time she referred to Pride attendees as “her people” – but it wasn’t until this year’s Risk awards, during which sh
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 sustain 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 mighty 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
Who Is Eboni Nichols? An Explainer Of Queen Latifah&#;s Significant other — And Their Adorable Son
Queen Latifah and Eboni Nichols acquire been together for 12 years, and have kept their union relatively hush-hush.
The most the Living Single alum has said about her relationship was a shoutout during her BET Awards Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech, where she affectionately referred to Nichols as &#;my love.&#; While the pair have been spotted out and about during numerous events, not much has been documented about the two lovebirds.
In , the &#;U.N.I.T.Y&#; emcee told The Novel York Timesthat the scarcity of facts is intentional. “I don’t have a problem discussing the topic of somebody being gay, but I do include a problem discussing my personal existence. You don’t earn that part of me. Sorry. We’re not discussing it in our meetings, we’re not discussing it at Cover Girl,” the Queen asserted. “I don’t feel like I need to give my personal existence, and I don’t care if people think I’m same-sex attracted or not. Consider whatever you hope for. You do it anyway.”
So, with the little bit of inform
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 companion 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 unlike red carpet together for an AmFAR benefit in Queen first publicly known Eboni, and their son Rebel, from a Stake 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 receive it.
This is the queen. And after rooting for her journey for so long, after she was a queer awake