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Queen Latifah’s vacation photos seem to tell story
I firmly believe that a person – famous or not – has the right to come out publicly whenever and if ever they feel the time is right.So when Queen Latifah appeared on Larry King Live last month and declared that her personal life was off limits, I felt it was her right.
But it also felt kind of strange, and annoying frankly, that she would make that kind of rule when she was on the show promoting a memoir called Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path To Queendom.
I thought, can someone with so many walls up be an effective role model about finding your inner self etc. – especially when they are dodging any mention of their sexuality?
Latifah was indeed candid about how the death of her brother affected her life and her outlook. But the mere mention by Larry that she doesn’t discuss her personal life caused Latifah to interject,“Nope… don’t go there, Larry.”“I don’t read all of the blogs and I’m not media hungry like that,” she said when asked how she protects her privacy. “I don’t have to look at myself online every day…. I share with the public the things that we should share. We should share music. Let’s share that. Let’s share films. Let’s share that. Let’s share thoughts about positive things. Let’s share those things, but what happens in my personal, personal life is my personal business.”
True enough. But a series of photos that have surfaced of Latifah and Jeanette Jenkins in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat say a lot more than any answers or non-answers she can give to Larry King.
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Ulmer says:
You’d think that sharing “thoughts about positive things” would include sharing the fact of having a happy relationship. Maybe theirs is not always positive enough? (They’ve owned a house together for a decade now, I hear.)
She could be a great eye-opener and a strong ally for furthering equal rights within the black community. It’s really too bad she doesn’t want to “go there.”
Mike says:
Wow, I guess what she said on Larry King was just talk as her personal life is OUT in the open for anyone to see, but, good for her to be “out” in her way and showing that tender side and being with someone she loves and among her friends.
Ron Oliver says:
While we find the practice of telephoto lenses capturing “private moments” and then splashing said moments all over the internet to be loathsome, we quote – as we often do – Sir Noel Coward in this instance (from “I’ve Been To a Marvelous Party”):
Living in error
With Maud at Cap Ferret
(Which couldn’t be right)…
Everyone’s here, and frightfully gay;
Nobody cares what people say,
Though the Riviera
Seems really much queerer
Than Rome at its height!
Dominick says:
This is a personal issue and her’s alone to decide when she wants to come out. It strikes me as hypocritical not for the queen but for the people who chose to run other people lives for there selfish needs of excepteince in this world. I got a question for those people, are you also against abortion? I’m assuming your not and are “pro choice” based on the issue for support in our gay community is a liberal issue only. But you might as well be against abortion since you also chose to run people’s lives..
David in Houston says:
This is a very difficult situation for actors. They have to balance their public persona with their private life. Unlike most of us, coming out in the public sphere could have the real possible effect of destroying their career and livelihood. It’s not fair, it shouldn’t happen, but it is a reality whether we’d like to wish it weren’t so. Matt Bomer, Zachary Quinto and Anderson Cooper (amongst others) are doing the same kind of juggling. It’s their life, they have every right to live it however they want.
Yvonne Collins says:
Queen Latifah, I think that people should mine their own business about who you are with or about your sexuality. It seems like the people may be jealous of you bacause they can’t have you. I have nothing against about for who you are bacause you are my favorite actress and you will always be. I don’t want to bring this up to you but I seen the pictures of when you and others were in Frnce and what ever happen there but I will not get into that because it’s none of my business of what you do. I still love your movies and music anyway regardless of what goes on throughout life. Just keep your head up high and good luck on your career of what your doing.