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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 2024 Met Gala Carpet with her longtime partner Eboni Nichols.
When I first saw it, well… I screamed a tiny. 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 2022 and more recently they walked a different red carpet together for an AmFAR benefit in 2023. 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 Black lgbtq+ person, who has been a part of this community at any show in the last 30 years, I also perceive that you get it.
This is the queen. And after rooting for her journey for so extended, after she was a queer awakening for so many of us across so many years, every step forward feels successful for
Welcome to Very Exceptional Gay Episode, a fun little series where I recap standalone lesbian episodes from classic TV shows that are not otherwise necessarily gay. In this installment, we will discuss Living Available Season Three, Episode 22: “Woman-to-Woman”
There are few television shows that I would consider myself a legitimate TV “scholar” of — not in the way I would Living Single. Famously, my obsession with the peak 90s FOX sitcom lead to me having a Queen Latifah-themed birthday party in second grade. I’ve watched it quite nearly daily since it first went off air in 1998, first in after-school reruns and cable syndication, then on DVD (they only released the first season, a tragedy, but that did not stop me), and now on streaming. And every reunion show? Behind-the-scenes oral history? I was there. The Internet loves to joke about “besties” but Khadijah, Maxine, Synclaire and Regine? Those are my besties forreal. Those girls hold me down. Not past tense.
And maybe it’s because Living Single is still so alive for me, such a part of my everyday life, that I was shocked to find out that September marked its 30th birthday. For one, I deny to be that old. But mor
The often-private Queen Latifah gets candid about a slew of thoughtful subjects in Essence Magazine's July issue including alleged sexual exploitation she suffered as a kid, rumors that she's gay and her desire to become a mother.
"My personal life is personal and it's really not for everyone else," she told the mag. "With what I carry out for a living, I contain 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 relentless speculation about her sexual orientation.
"They want to make up stories and make me gay all the time and it's prefer, 'Keep running with it,'" she said. "I've definitely been annoyed by it, but I learned a long time ago that it was pointless to declare anything. Everybody else can accomplish 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 leave a person
Queen Latifah Officiated a Gay (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 show of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “Same Love” just outside prime time during Sunday’s Grammy Awards telecast was the self 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 make any kind of widespread 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 control relationships, she hasn’t avoided the topic of homosexuality or slammed the collective. As she told Alex Witchel in a 2008 New York Times Magazine profile: “I don’t have a obstacle discussing the topic of somebody organism gay, but I do have a problem discussing my personal life. … I don’t nurture if people believe I’m gay or not. Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway.”
When her appearance at a 2012 Drawn-out Beach Gay Celebration celebration was seen by some as a formal coming out, she denied that in