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

Contents:

• DISNEY OFFERED TO MAKE RAVEN-SYMONE’S CHARACTER GAY THAT'S SO RAVEN REBOOT
• RAVEN-SYMONE SAID SHE TURNED DOWN CHANGE OF HER CHARACTER FROM STRAIGHT TO GAY
• RAVEN SYMONE OPENS UP ABOUT WHY SHE DIDN'T WANT RAVEN TO BE GAY ON 'RAVEN'S HOME'
• 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

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. 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.. 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-SYMONE SAID SHE TURNED DOWN CHANGE OF HER CHARACTER FROM STRAIGHT TO 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.

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. 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.

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

“They were like, ‘Do you want Raven to be gay?

Raven Baxter’s not gay, ” she add. 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.

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'

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. 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.