Queen Latifah is taking the same attitude as a lot of celebs whose sexual orientation has been questioned: she says it’s nobody’s damn business. Which is totally true. Latifah says she doesn’t owe anyone an explanation of her life, and she’s not going to give them one – even if it’s the New York Times.
Get it straight: Queen Latifah is not answering your questions about her sexuality.
“I don’t have a problem discussing the topic of somebody being gay, but I do have a problem discussing my personal life,” Latifah, 38, told Sunday’s New York Times magazine.
“You don’t get that part of me. Sorry,” she added. “We’re not discussing it in our meetings, we’re not discussing it at Cover Girl…nobody gets that.
“I don’t feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don’t care if people think I’m gay or not,” she said. “Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway.”
Latifah had been linked to her longtime personal trainer. Last December, she denied rumors that they were getting married.
“People will make up all sorts of things that are not true,” she told the Chicago Sun-Times. “There ain’t gonna’ be no wedding.”
[From Us Weekly]
I would never want anyone – famous or otherwise – to feel pressured to reveal things about themselves that they don’t want to. And even celebrities have the right to choose to keep things private. I do kind of wish Queen Latifah would come out if she were gay, simply because I think she’d be an exceptionally good role model. She’s smart, she’s business savvy, she’s had success in both music and acting, and she doesn’t fit the traditional Hollywood mold of what a woman “should” look like. And she’s always had this confidence about her, which still seeming down to earth.
Queen Latifah just has a ton of qualities I really respect, and I think if she were ever to feel comfortable and want to talk about her orientation, she could really do a lot of good. But she’s right – her private life is her business, and she’s always been that way and has every right to make that choice.
Here’s Queen Latifah with Will Smith, Tristan Wilds, and Jada Pinkett Smith at the premiere of ‘The Secret Life of Bees’ in Beverly Hills yesterday. Images thanks to Bauer-Griffin and WENN.
