Raven-Symoné: Why I didn't want my 'Raven's Home' character to be gay

Contents:

• RAVEN-SYMONE SAID SHE TURNED DOWN CHANGE OF HER CHARACTER FROM STRAIGHT TO GAY
• DISNEY OFFERED TO MAKE RAVEN-SYMONE’S CHARACTER GAY THAT'S SO RAVEN REBOOT
• 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: WHY I DIDN’T WANT MY ‘RAVEN’S HOME’ CHARACTER TO BE GAY
• RAVEN SYMONE B: AGE, HEIGHT, PARENTS, PARTNER, IS SHE GAY?
• RAVEN-SYMONE: I’M NOT GAY, AND I’M NOT AIN-AMERIN
• NOT SO RAVEN??? RAVEN-SYMONé SAYS DISNEY OFFERED TO MAKE HER CHARACTER GAY & SHE REFUSED!
• IS ORLANDO BROWN REALLY GAY? SEPARATG FACT OM FICTN
• RAVEN-SYMONé: STRAIGHT OR GAY, "THAT IS MY RIGHT AS A HUMAN BEG"

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..

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.

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

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.

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'

"They were like, 'Do you want Raven to be gay?

Raven Baxter's not gay.

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

'"This is not the first time the Disney star has talked about not wantg her Raven to be gay. “They were like, ‘Do you want Raven to be gay?

“Raven Baxter’s not gay. 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 SYMONE B: AGE, HEIGHT, PARENTS, PARTNER, IS SHE GAY?

Raven-Symone: Don't label me gay.

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: I’M NOT GAY, AND I’M NOT AIN-AMERIN

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!

Apparently, Disney execs had a specific visn for the character of "Raven" and asked Raven-Symoné if she thought Raven should be gay.

Raven Baxter is not gay, no matter what the first four seasons looked like wh me and Chelsea sleepg the same room and raisg a fay together, " she joked. ”Raven said she realized she was gay at around age 12, but she didn’t e out until llege. “I knew I uldn’t say out loud bee, 'Oh my god, ltle Olivia is gay, this is crazy, ’” Raven, who played Olivia on The Cosby Show, said the vio.

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

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.

IS ORLANDO BROWN REALLY GAY? SEPARATG FACT OM FICTN

” 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. 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.

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

” 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.

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!