Monifah on beg black, gay and an R&B Diva - AfterEllen

Contents:

• MONIFAH ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND AN R&B DIVA
• MONIFAH TALKS BEG GAY THE MIC DTRY
• MONIFAH TALKS GAY MARRIAGE, DGHTER NOT ACCEPTG HER LIFTYLE [EXCLUSIVE]
• GAY: ‘R&B DIVAS’ STAR MONIFAH SAYS HER RELIG DGHTER WILL NEVER APPROVE OF HER LBIAN RELATNSHIP
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

MONIFAH ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND AN R&B DIVA

The legendary edian first laid ey on her wife Alex, who she’s been married to sce 2008 and shar two children wh, on a ferry to the gay rort Fire Island New York.

We had the chance to speak wh Monifah about g out, lettg meras to her life and why she thks there aren’t a lot of out gay black celebri. I have a few gay people my fay, so was pretty normalized.

MONIFAH TALKS BEG GAY THE MIC DTRY

He was gay. You’re a role mol you’re the public eye, so on the one hand you want to be able to say “I’m gay” to help other gay kids, but if you say “I’m bisexual” or queer, which I like to throw “queer” out there bee I thk ’s a great all-enpassg word. AE: If you are a celebry and you are gay and you are asked “Are you gay?

MONIFAH TALKS GAY MARRIAGE, DGHTER NOT ACCEPTG HER LIFTYLE [EXCLUSIVE]

Do you feel that livg an openly gay life or beg open and hont, that there is a le drawn at prs and media? MC: Oh yeah, all the homophob the bs.

And my opn, a gay-male n dtry. It’s Jewish gay mal, right? AE: I often thk ’d be really ol if every sgle person that was gay would do like “Hands Across Ameri.

GAY: ‘R&B DIVAS’ STAR MONIFAH SAYS HER RELIG DGHTER WILL NEVER APPROVE OF HER LBIAN RELATNSHIP

I also found tertg to see Michael’s reactn to your havg a same-sex partner and Keke and him gettg to almost an argument and her sayg “I have three gay brothers! Sexualty self – so then you add homosexualy or anythg different om sexualy self and that’s like a whole other thg!

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

And now you’re gog to add homosexualy on to ? ” Now, a new terview, Monifah is openg up about her experience of beg gay the mic dtry.

While chattg wh the Huffgton Post, Monifah discsed the different reactns to the g out stori of Frank Ocean, Jarron Colls and Brtney Grer and explaed that, although gay and bisexual women the dtry do have a different experience g out than gay and bisexual man, ’s not an easier thg eher.

First of all, people directly go to the act of sex when to homosexualy, which ’s not what ’s about. Check out some other gay and bisexual R&B stars om throughout the years below.