Raven-Symoné Opens Up About Livg As Her Authentic Self: 'My Gay Self Saved Me'

Contents:

• RAVEN-SYMONE: I’M NOT GAY, AND I’M NOT AIN-AMERIN
• RAVEN-SYMONE SAYS SHE’S A LBIAN, GRATEFUL FOR LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE
• RAVEN-SYMONé OPENS UP ABOUT LIVG AS HER AUTHENTIC SELF: 'MY GAY SELF SAVED ME'
• DISNEY OFFERED TO MAKE RAVEN-SYMONE’S CHARACTER GAY THAT'S SO RAVEN REBOOT
• RAVEN-SYMONé: WHY I DIDN’T WANT MY ‘RAVEN’S HOME’ CHARACTER TO BE GAY
• RAVEN-SYMONE -- I HAVE A GIRLIEND ... BUT DON'T CALL ME 'GAY' OR 'AIN AMERIN'
• RAVEN SYMONE B: AGE, HEIGHT, PARENTS, PARTNER, IS SHE GAY?
• RAVEN-SYMONé SAYS SHE SHUT DOWN DISNEY'S PLANS FOR HER CHARACTER TO BE GAY 'RAVEN'S HOME': 'I'M NOT BEG MYSELF ON THIS SHOW'
• RAVEN-SYMONE SAID SHE TURNED DOWN CHANGE OF HER CHARACTER FROM STRAIGHT TO GAY
• WHY RAVEN-SYMONé REJECTED DISNEY’S OFFER TO MAKE HER CHARACTER GAY IN ‘RAVEN’S HOME’
• RAVEN-SYMONé: STRAIGHT OR GAY, "THAT IS MY RIGHT AS A HUMAN BEG"
• RAVEN-SYMONé: 'IF THERE’S A 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL, THERE SHOULD BE A 'DON’T SAY STRAIGHT' BILL'
• RAVEN-SYMONé'S GAY MARRIAGE TWEET EXPLAED: STAR NOT GETTG MARRIED, BUT "IT'S GREAT TO KNOW I CAN NOW"

RAVEN-SYMONE: I’M NOT GAY, AND I’M NOT AIN-AMERIN

Raven-Symoné wasn't ready to e out as gay until a -star gave her the ph she need to mter up the urage. The 36-year-old looks back on her journey to beg openly gay a new terview wh Them, a webse foced on LGBTQ+ issu.

RAVEN-SYMONE SAYS SHE’S A LBIAN, GRATEFUL FOR LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE

When Green told the actor that he had watched her grow up onscreen, the nversatn turned to the topic of role mols and the fact that there weren't many openly gay role mols pop culture at the time. Raven-Symone: Don't label me gay.

RAVEN-SYMONé OPENS UP ABOUT LIVG AS HER AUTHENTIC SELF: 'MY GAY SELF SAVED ME'

Actrs Raven-Symone chews labels like gay and Ain-Amerin.

That’s what the former “Cosby Show” star told Oprah Wey on OWN on Sunday night, as she explaed why she don’t like to be labeled as gay or Ain-Amerin. “I don’t want to be labeled gay, ” Raven-Symone said.

DISNEY OFFERED TO MAKE RAVEN-SYMONE’S CHARACTER GAY THAT'S SO RAVEN REBOOT

Raven-Symone says she’s a lbian, grateful for legalized gay marriage. The former Disney star’s sexualy has been headl sce she tweeted Augt 2013 that she was happy for the legalizatn of gay marriage, as meant that she uld “fally get married!

Raven-Symone says "It's great to know" she n have a legal gay marriage.

“I am very happy that gay marriage is openg up around the untry and is beg accepted, ” the actrs said a statement through her reprentativ. “I was exced to hear today that more stat legalized gay marriage. She was jt supportg the fact that she heard on NPR that more stat legalized gay marriage today.

RAVEN-SYMONé: WHY I DIDN’T WANT MY ‘RAVEN’S HOME’ CHARACTER TO BE GAY

Raven-Symoné wasn't ready to e out as gay until a -star gave her the ph she need to mter up the 36-year-old looks back on her journey to beg openly gay a new terview wh Them, a webse foced on LGBTQ+ issu.

’ And I was like, ‘No, I’m not, ’” she Green told the actor that he had watched her grow up onscreen, the nversatn turned to the topic of role mols and the fact that there weren't many openly gay role mols pop culture at the time. “I always say that my gay self saved me, ” Raven told Romper. As much as I attribute that to my parents, I also attribute to the fact that the gay person on the si of me kept sayg, ‘Nope, Nope, Nope.

”Raven was hostg a karaoke night at a Wt Hollywood gay bar back 2015 when she met Miranda. “I married a gay ltle wch and she married a gay ltle wch, ” said Raven, who played a young psychic wch the s That’s So Raven.

RAVEN-SYMONE -- I HAVE A GIRLIEND ... BUT DON'T CALL ME 'GAY' OR 'AIN AMERIN'

Disney asked Raven-Symone if she wanted to make Raven Baxter gay the That's So Raven reboot Raven's Home, but the star turned down the offer. Disney offered to make Raven-Symoné’s character gay the That's So Raven reboot, Raven's Home.

“They were like, ‘Do you want Raven to be gay?

RAVEN SYMONE B: AGE, HEIGHT, PARENTS, PARTNER, IS SHE GAY?

“Raven Baxter’s not gay. But Don't Call Me Gay OR Ain Amerin. Raven spoke for the first time about her tweet celebratg the Supreme Court lg on gay marriage last year -- and explaed she's a relatnship wh a woman, but add, "I don't want to be labeled gay, I want to be a human who lov humans.

Is Raven Symone gay?

In May 2012, she stated that her sexual orientatn was hers and not for public Augt 2013, she said that she was exced to learn that more stat had legalized gay marriag. Later that year, the actrs revealed that Livgston was no longer Raven Symone girliend as the two had end their 2016, Raven Symone gay orientatn was affirmed when she referred to herself as a lbian on The View, a show she was -hostg. Raven-Symoné said she "didn't feel fortable" wh her character beg gay "Raven's Home.

RAVEN-SYMONé SAYS SHE SHUT DOWN DISNEY'S PLANS FOR HER CHARACTER TO BE GAY 'RAVEN'S HOME': 'I'M NOT BEG MYSELF ON THIS SHOW'

Raven-Symoné said that she told Disney producers that she didn't want her character to e out as gay the "That's So Raven" reboot, "Raven's Home. The spoff, which premiered roughly 10 years after the first seri end, followed the bt iends after they'd grown up and had their own a vio terview for Them, published on YouTube last week, Raven-Symoné said that she didn't thk was a good enough reason for Raven to be gay the reboot jt bee the actor had e out as gay. "They were like, 'Do you want Raven to be gay?

Raven Baxter's not gay.

RAVEN-SYMONE SAID SHE TURNED DOWN CHANGE OF HER CHARACTER FROM STRAIGHT TO GAY

Speakg to the “Pri” podst, Symone said that Disney offered to make the sp-off character a lbian to acmodate Raven-Symone, who is gay real life. Symone said she is proud to be gay, but “The reason I said no wasn’t bee I wasn’t proud of who I was, or I didn’t want to reprent the LGBTQ+ muny any way, ” Symoné said..

After years the entertament dtry, Symoné me out as gay 2013, when few famo people were gay.

WHY RAVEN-SYMONé REJECTED DISNEY’S OFFER TO MAKE HER CHARACTER GAY IN ‘RAVEN’S HOME’

Acrdg to Symoné, while preparg for “Raven’s Home, ” the Disney producers asked if she wanted her character to be gay like her. Disney Producers Offered To Make Raven Baxter Gay In ‘Raven’s Home’. In a newly published vio terview wh Them, Symoné revealed that she refed Disney’s offer to make her Disney character gay.

Durg the terview, Symoné revealed that when she asked the producers why they wanted Baxter to be gay, they said was bee she was. Raven-Symoné Says Raven Baxter Wasn’t Gay.

Symoné further explaed that Baxter, the Disney show, had never shown any sexual inty and so sudnly g out as gay was kd of off.

RAVEN-SYMONé: STRAIGHT OR GAY, "THAT IS MY RIGHT AS A HUMAN BEG"

Raven Baxter’s not gay, ” Symoné said. In the terview, Symoné admted that she knew she was gay by the time she was 12 years old (and even had some awarens of when she was “10, the sgle digs”), but she tried to force herself to like boys.

"However that is my right as a HUMAN BEg whether straight or gay. Raven-Symoné is takg aim at a piece of legislatn Florida that crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

RAVEN-SYMONé: 'IF THERE’S A 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL, THERE SHOULD BE A 'DON’T SAY STRAIGHT' BILL'

“I’m gog to say this, and this is my thg: If there’s a ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, there should be a ‘Don’t Say Straight’ bill, ” the actor, whose full name is Raven-Symoné Christa Pearman, said on the 3rd hour of TODAY Wednday. Former child star has remaed quiet on her personal life until nowAllen Berezovsky/FilmMagicThe mors are swirlg once aga that former Cosby cutie Raven-Symoné is gay.

The former child star took to Twter today to share her excement about recent ernment cisns legalizg gay marriage, such as the Supreme Court strikg down the Defense of Marriage Act and this week's news that Mnota had passed s own gay marriage law. News an exclive statement: "I am very happy that gay marriage is openg up around the untry and is beg accepted. I was exced to hear today that more stat legalized gay marriage.

RAVEN-SYMONé'S GAY MARRIAGE TWEET EXPLAED: STAR NOT GETTG MARRIED, BUT "IT'S GREAT TO KNOW I CAN NOW"

Back 2012, the actrs also took to Twter and addrsed mors that she was gay.

The mor l first went to overdrive when reports began to surface that the Disney star was livg wh an openly gay Ameri's Next Top Mol nttant, AzMarie Livgston, a New York Cy apartment.

"However that is my right as a HUMAN Beg whether straight or gay, " Raven explaed. But on Wey’s uch, the That’s So Raven and Cosby Show actrs seemed to fall to a very mon rhetoril pattern among celebri, sayg that her sexualy is somethg that nnot be labeled — that, ed, she’s post-gay.