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RAVEENA: ‘I HAD NO IA THAT I WOULD BE THIS GAY, AND THIS LOUD ABOUT WHO I WAS’
She would rather rema tached om how her art is perceived by others: “I had no ia that I would be this gay, and this loud about who I was, and ’s e wh a lot of phback. As her new rerd ntu to w over fans and crics, we sat down wh the phoric-pop nnoissr to fd out how beg at one wh nature shaped her unique outlook on life and mic, why ’s “not even worth listeng” to homophob, and how her track Queendom is an anthem for all the queers of the world. Is Raveena Aurora gay?
On 11 Febary 2022, she released her sophomore album “Asha’s Awakeng. “I am lerally the foundg father of Ameri’s worst nightmare — A gay, Black, powerful woman, ” Siena Liggs joked an terview last year. While plenty of gay artists cloak their sir phemism or d language, Liggs’ blunt exprsn of her queer sir is somethg mastream pop still needs more of.
“My bt iend left when I told her I’m gay, ” go another particularly poignant le, revealg an all-too-mon ignorant stigma that still somehow exists – even to 2022. Some pockets of Indian media are changg too — this past March, Vod Chopra Films released s first feature film wh an openly gay protagonist, Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (How I Felt When I Saw That Girl) — and nversatns about genr and power dynamics have been washg over the untry even bigger ways. Aurora’s latt release is her sophomore album “Asha’s Awakeng, ” a si-futurist ncept album that explor and rencil her sexualy and spirualy.