Sharing with delight! Celebrities like Raven-Symoné, Dan Levy and extra have grow to be essential figures throughout the LGBTQ neighborhood as they’ve championed equality each on and offscreen.
The That’s So Raven alum’s private life turned the topic of headlines in August 2013 when she tweeted her response to the legalization of same-sex marriage. “I can lastly get married! Yay authorities! So happy with you,” she wrote on the time.
Three years later, she spoke about her journey to self-acceptance and admitted that she “never thought” she would publicly come out.
“Being on tv units from age 3 until age 30, I’m extra comfy there,” she mentioned in a Could 2016 video for the Lexus L/Studio docuseries It Bought Higher. “I do know what traces I’m alleged to say. Any person else picks my garments for me. I’ve make-up performed. I’ve hair performed. And you create a family with these those that typically are nearer to you than your personal household.”
The Disney alum felt like she couldn’t be honest about her sexuality as a result of she had been “branded at such a younger age” to suit the community’s picture. “I by no means thought I’d come out as a result of my private life didn’t matter,” she mentioned on the time. “It was solely what was alleged to be offered because the Raven-Symoné model.”
Although she’d recognized she was drawn to girls from a younger age, the former The View cohost took her time when approaching her sexuality in public. Levy, for his half, got here out to his mother and father when he was 18 — however as soon as feared that he would all the time have to cover his identification from the remainder of the world.
“I legitimately thought that I must reside with this secret — my being homosexual — for the remainder of my life as a result of I didn’t have the safety of seeing lots of people like myself being celebrated in in style tradition,” the Schitt’s Creek creator and star mentioned in September 2019 on the GLAAD Gala in San Francisco. “Had I not had the love to present me a way of safety, I don’t know if I’d have discovered my manner out of the closet, not to mention create the chance for myself to inform tales on tv which have effected some form of constructive change on this planet.”
The Emmy winner portrayed queer romance with positivity throughout the six seasons of Pop TV’s Schitt’s Creek, which got here to an finish in early 2020. Although the Rose household isn’t any extra, Levy vowed to maintain telling trustworthy tales for his communities.
“Help, encouragement and love: three relatively simple acts of kindness that may change the course of an individual’s life,” he mentioned on the time. “I promise to proceed to do my half in celebrating this radiant neighborhood in all of the work that I do, massive and small.”
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