Raven-Symoné Didn't Want Her Character to Be Gay 'Raven's Home'

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• RAVEN-SYMONE SAID SHE TURNED DOWN CHANGE OF HER CHARACTER FROM STRAIGHT TO 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'
• DISNEY OFFERED TO MAKE RAVEN-SYMONE’S CHARACTER GAY THAT'S SO RAVEN REBOOT
• RAVEN SYMONE OPENS UP ABOUT WHY SHE DIDN'T WANT RAVEN TO BE GAY ON 'RAVEN'S HOME'
• RAVEN SYMONE B: AGE, HEIGHT, PARENTS, PARTNER, IS SHE GAY?
• NOT SO RAVEN??? RAVEN-SYMONé SAYS DISNEY OFFERED TO MAKE HER CHARACTER GAY & SHE REFUSED!
• RAVEN-SYMONé: WHY I DIDN’T WANT MY ‘RAVEN’S HOME’ CHARACTER TO BE 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 SAYS SHE DIDN'T WANT HER CHARACTER ON DISNEY'S RAVEN'S HOME TO BE 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..

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 she "didn't feel fortable" wh her character beg gay "Raven's Home. 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.

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

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. In a new terview wh them, the star and executive producer of the Disney Channel seri revealed why she turned down the work’s offer to make her character gay.

RAVEN SYMONE OPENS UP ABOUT WHY SHE DIDN'T WANT RAVEN TO BE GAY ON 'RAVEN'S HOME'

While reflectg on her inic Disney rol, takg a break om the dtry, not wantg to e out and more, she dished on Disney offerg to make Raven Baxter gay.

“They were like, ‘Do you want Raven to be gay? Raven Baxter’s not gay, ” she add. Is Raven Symone gay?

RAVEN SYMONE B: AGE, HEIGHT, PARENTS, PARTNER, IS SHE 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.

However, turns out Disney actually asked if Raven, who me out back 2014, wanted her character to be gay before the revival seri aired 2017 — but she turned down!

NOT SO RAVEN??? RAVEN-SYMONé SAYS DISNEY OFFERED TO MAKE HER CHARACTER GAY & SHE REFUSED!

“Raven Baxter’s not gay. After years the entertament dtry, Symoné me out as gay 2013, when few famo people were gay. 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 Baxter’s not gay, ” Symoné said.

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

Later their nversatn, van r Pol told Romano that she knew Raven-Symoné, who married her wife Miranda Maday 2020, was gay "the moment I met her" durg the stg procs for "That's So Raven, " which began airg 2003 and nclud wh s fourth and fal season 2007. Van r Pol exed the seri 2022, after the fourth a 2022 terview wh Them, Raven-Symoné said she thought the fact that she was gay was a "bad reason" to make her character Raven Baxter gay. Discsg the issue further on the "Pri" podst, the "Bold Type" star said she lik to distance herself om her characters as much as possible, bee as a Black gay woman, "I'm stereotyped for the rt of my life, let's jt keep 100.

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

"However that is my right as a HUMAN BEg whether straight or gay. Raven-SymonéPhoto: Kev Wter (Getty Imag)Raven-Symoné has aga asserted that she didn’t want her character on Disney’s That’s So Raven reboot, Raven’s Home, to e out as gay.

The actor now says she shut down what she felt was an ial ph om Disney to make Raven Baxter a gay character, smellg somethg fishy  the stud’s A.

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

Raven Baxter’s not gay. 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.

While ncedg to Wey that she’s a relatnship wh a woman, Raven-Symoné said, “I don’t want to be labeled ‘gay. ” While the extent to which Raven-Symoné rejects labels is fairly new, she’s hardly the first celebry to ph back agast tegorizatn as “gay” — even while acknowledgg a same-sex relatnship. ” Though Harris is one of the most succsful openly gay celebri, even he has ma clear that ’s much easier to back away om beg intified, first, as gay.

RAVEN-SYMONé SAYS SHE DIDN'T WANT HER CHARACTER ON DISNEY'S RAVEN'S HOME TO BE GAY

Jt about every major gay star of the recent past has e out wh a veat — that they don’t want this to be the only thg we know about them.

” It’s easy to unrstand why this happens: for many celebri, beg gay means datg entirely private, and shyg away om intifyg as a member of a muny.