Pretend to look surprised when Queen Latifah sits you down for some "Big News"- Page 2

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/5/07 at 3:15pm

I haven't.

[jaystarr]

Posted: 12/5/07 at 3:44pm

I thought that she is OUT !

J*
Updated On: 12/5/07 at 03:44 PM

[Broadway_freak]

Posted: 12/5/07 at 9:51pm

I was pretty oblivious to this until now, good for her. Doesn't this kinda of remind you of Jodie Foster and the whole "it just was known" thing?

[Guido Contini]

Posted: 12/5/07 at 9:55pm

I'm a little shocked too. I guess I'd never let the Queens sexual preferences cross my mind. She's a good musician and a pretty good actress...guess her personal life never held that much importance to me. *shrug*

good for her anyway. i hope she and her partner have a long happy life together.

[supportivemom]

Posted: 12/5/07 at 9:58pm

Maybe this will spark Missy Elliot. I don't think she has ever officially come out yet- has she?

[Guido Contini]

Posted: 12/5/07 at 9:59pm

for some reason or another, i've always wondered about her.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/11/07 at 7:07pm

Well here we go again. Queen is in today's Chicago Sun-Times and they asked her about it. She denies it. Can't help what people make up about celebrities. So I guess we can put her back in the "Closeted" (or actually straight) column. Go figure.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 12/11/07 at 7:09pm

Just like poor Larry Craig! Could you imagine being a heterosexual Christian man and be dogged with gay rumors your entire life?

[soapguy17]

Posted: 12/11/07 at 7:29pm

Really Joe? I think I remember reading an article where she said she's not ready to talk about her love life, and that she's no sure if she ever will be. My mind could totally be imagining things though.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/11/07 at 7:32pm

My understanding is that she doesn't come right out and deny it. She's sort of ambiguous, right?

[DG]

Posted: 12/11/07 at 7:33pm

"She denies it. Can't help what people make up about celebrities."

I'm actually a little surprised by this. She's been photographed more than once here in LA with her partner, and never seemed to have a problem with them identifying her in that situation.

[soapguy17]

Posted: 12/11/07 at 7:34pm

That's what I thought JG. I don't think she's denied it since the 90's. Well until the alleged "Sun-Times" article.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 12/11/07 at 7:49pm

Good God, when will you people learn to freaking READ?
The only thing she denied was that they were getting MARRIED:

Queen Latifah laughs off gossip
'There ain't gonna be no wedding,' singer says

December 10, 2007
BY BILL ZWECKER Sun-Times Columnist
I caught up with Queen Latifah (and Gabrielle Union) while they were in town this weekend with Morris Chestnut and Faizon Love to promote their upcoming Christmas flick, 'The Perfect Holiday" (opening Wednesday), which Queen Latifah also produced.

Most of the chat was about the film and its appeal to families during this season with few PG offerings with 'Christmasy' themes, but as I was exiting our interview, I did ask Queen Latifah for reaction to recent tabloid gossip that she allegedly was going to wed her long-time female personal trainer.

She quipped, 'When you're famous these days, it's just part of the deal -- unfortunately. People will make up all sorts of things that are not true. . . . There ain't gonna be no wedding.'

[DG]

Posted: 12/11/07 at 7:58pm

Presto, Sueleen.

Isn't the media a wonderful thing to play like a fiddle?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 12/11/07 at 8:02pm

Yeah, I dunno. This thread reminds me of one of the Huckabee threads. People were discussing how far we gays have come and I look at situations like this and I wonder if we've come very far at all. Ironic in the incorrect definition of the word, no, since Queen sings that song on the Hairspray soundtrack?

I don't know Queen personally. I don't portend to speak from any place other than a place of speculation, but if it looks like a duck and it walks like a duck, it's probably a lesbian.

At a certain point - even in cases like Jodie Foster, where she's got a reason to want to remain private, what with that whole guy trying to a kill a president for her - don't the sins of omission switch from venial to mortal? At a time when gay visibility is so important, why can't more gay celebrities think, "You know, coming out could wreck my career. But I've made a lot of money and I've done pretty well for myself and even if it makes it just a wee bit easier for the next generation, doesn't that make it worth it?" Does their fame and fortune just sort of mitigate any guilt they may or may not have about being in the position they are and not trying to bring about some positive gay visibility to this country?

Yes, I know it's easy for me to sit back here and pass judgment. I realize that nothing is black and white and the real world is a little more complicated than I'm making it.

I think about people who aren't out, either living in complete denial or in a sort of "don't ask don't tell" way that a celebrity or someone in a small town or who tells everyone but their family, etc., are a detriment to gay people and any chance we have of obtaining the same basic rights that heterosexuals have. I know that there can be extenuating circumstances for some, but I think most of them need to just grow a pair and say it out loud. You're gay, people. Get over it.

It seems that a lot of people like to think we really are in this sort of post-gay "I don't need to come out anymore because we've achieved that security" world, but we are not. If you STILL can't talk about it. If every time I crack "Is (redacted so as not to have this thread deleted) gay?" people flip out, we are Still. Not. To. That. Point.
Updated On: 12/11/07 at 08:02 PM

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/12/07 at 11:26am

Of course there's not going to be a wedding. Doesn't anyone remember that they almost broke up during the filming of Hairspray because Queen L. was cheating on her partner.


Am I the only one who remembers all of the talk?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 12/12/07 at 11:44am

And gay or straight, trying to boil down sexual orientation to who one sleeps with is such a cop-out. The world is heterocentric, which is why straight people don't have to "come out" with their sexuality.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/12/07 at 5:54pm

Sueleen are really telling me that you read that denial and hear a woman saying "Yes, I am a lesbian but do not plan to settle down with my girlfriend at this time"? I THINK you are being sarcastic but I just want to make sure.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/12/07 at 11:19pm

But she didn't say that the personal trainer was her partner, or that she had a partner, or that she had a FEMALE partner. There is plenty being denied there besides just a wedding.

[Wilhelmina]

Posted: 12/13/07 at 2:26pm

Meanwhile...today on CNN, there is a feature clip about Jodie Foster publicly thanking her lesbian partner.

[mauriposa]

Posted: 12/13/07 at 2:56pm

"Personal trainer." So that's what the kids are calling it these days.