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

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• RAVEN-SYMONE SAYS SHE’S A LBIAN, GRATEFUL FOR LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE
• RAVEN-SYMONE: I’M NOT GAY, AND I’M NOT AIN-AMERIN
• RAVEN-SYMONé OPENS UP ABOUT LIVG AS HER AUTHENTIC SELF: 'MY GAY SELF SAVED ME'
• RAVEN-SYMONé'S GAY MARRIAGE TWEET EXPLAED: STAR NOT GETTG MARRIED, BUT "IT'S GREAT TO KNOW I CAN NOW"
• RICK SANTOM TELLS RAVEN-SYMONE WHY HE’S AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• FORMER COSBY STAR RAVEN-SYMONE NFIRMS THAT SHE’S GAY

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

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.

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

She was jt supportg the fact that she heard on NPR that more stat legalized gay marriage today. 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.

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. 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. 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. Raven-Symone says she’s a lbian, grateful for legalized gay marriage.

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

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!

RICK SANTOM TELLS RAVEN-SYMONE WHY HE’S AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

“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 me out back 2013, when she celebrated the legalizatn of gay marriage natnwi. "I don't want to be labeled gay.

FORMER COSBY STAR RAVEN-SYMONE NFIRMS THAT SHE’S GAY

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. 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.