I wouldn't trust anything the Enquirer says, but I do love hearing about Queenie.

The Enquirer was the paper that broke the Monica scandal. They were "reporting" there was an intern months before anyone else was even thinking about it. I am not saying you should put much stock in their reporting, but they are right on some stories.

I did see the queen out at a weho lesbian bar a few years back. My gaydar had gone off on her long before that .. so I wasn't surprised. Jen Aniston was there too a different time but I know that is just wishful thinking… although i seriously would have helped her rebound from that awful brad pitt.

It has never taken much gaydar to figure that Q.L was a butch dyke. It suprizes me that it's noyt public knowldge it's so extreme. Like a lot of evident black gay people it's not too easy being out of the closet.
Probably in her case, she'd lose a lot of her black following because of the Black churches incredible homophobic stuff.
It's really crazy that she plays this gusy woman and is a complete coward about what is so obvious..

When are we going to stop calling it gay marriage and just call it what it is, marriage?

Or, if you feel you must modify it some way to differentiate it, why not call it equal marriage?

But, I thought the whole point was to end differentiation.

M Shane… hold up. I am B/black. I am out of the closet and have been to myself since I was 14 and others since 15. I grew up in a predominately B/black community. And you know what? It WAS easy being out of the closet. Yes, this is my experience, but I don't think it is so rare. I know LOADS of OUT B/black gay people, both within and without B/black communities and…

Now, if you think being out isn't easy, then I have no argument. Otherwise, you are just being ignorant about our lives (when you could just start asking people to really consider it), creating B/black gay people and B/black het people as monolithic, destroying the complexity of my community to fit in with some Eurocentric idea of homophilia which is TRULY insanity.

Had to chime!

On topic:

I want for her to be double family, but also, I don't want her to be so pushed she says something homophobic and all you folks jump on her. I know it was hard for me when I was younger and just trying to HAVE a sexuality with everyone telling me I was gay… I hate to think of myself as perpetuating that.

I love watching Living Single marathons on cable and am proud to see the career QL's made for herself since.

Flightoftheseabird, yeah, even a broken clock is right twice a day. I still take most things printed in such publications with a grain of salt.

>When are we going to stop calling it gay marriage and just call it what it is, marriage?

Kevin, when are we going to start calling it civil-rights, which is what is really is?

I always thought she was in the Anderson Cooper / Jodi Foster (until recently) school - she lives her life, but doesn't talk about it to the press. I think she used to rap at SF lesbian bars way back when.

Didn't she speak against gay marriage a while back, or am I confused? (wouldn't be the first time)

So I guess Anderson Cooper and Jodie Foster are afraid to come out also due to the backlash of the Black Church? Can we keep our assumptions about the black community and the black church to a minimum? Last time I checked, Pastor Hagee and Parsley were not considered members of the black church, but they are quite homophobic.

Had no idea everyone knew she was gay until this post! It's cool, though!

>>Didn’t she speak against gay marriage a while
>> back, or am I confused? (wouldn’t be the first time)

I'm proud of QL's career but not necessarily the way she projects herself as a celebrity icon/role model.

She favor equal rights for GLBTs, including gay unions, but prefers that the word "marriage" not be used. Like most politicians, she is positioning herself to accommodate the most-expansive fan-base possible under her set of beliefs and has been rewarded for it with movie roles and modeling contracts like Cover Girl. Like Anderson Cooper and Jodie Foster, she remains ambiguous about her private life.

I don't have a big issue with people like Queen who keep things quiet, but don't lie and pretend to be some man hungry lady who just hasn't met the right man yet. I figure, hey, she wants to live her life cool. That is why, no matter HOW gay she is now that I still find it hard to stomach Rosie O'Donnell after being subjected to years of her "I LOVE Tom Cruise!, I named My Plane My Tommy. I want to Marry Tom Cruise" rants. Ugh. I would like it if Queen came out, but if she wants to live her life quietly, then I hope they have a nice wedding.

Queen Latifah is quite simply a multi-talented extraordinary beauty and even more extraordinary woman. Whatever her orientation I wish her and whoever she loves the kind of happiness she brings to millions of people daily.

All Hail The Queen.

The Queen is no Queen! She is a coward! Afraid to come out of the closet, for what ever the reason, she is no role model.

SEA FOOD ; you probably picked a pretty poor person to Chim on. I've had back people as an integral part of my life for most of it. Lived in ghettos,etc. too a degree that you can't guess at. I know too that the So Baptist Church itself (6 million) descriminates against gay people openly in their last pubilic statements-even in favor of Job descrimination: for which I lost a job recently.

Queen L. plays a gutsy straighshooting woman, obviously a dyke, an if she was as honest as she acts to be, she would not be so hypocrttical as to be doubly partnered (m&f if I get you straight. Homophobia is homophobia regardless of what color or sex you are.
A feature of some black people like some women is that they believe that they get to operate according to a separate set of standards combiming whatever is advantageous. Bullshit.

Go Queenie. I still have love and respect for you regardless. Heterosexuals do not have to share what goes on in their bedrooms. Why is it a requirement for a lesbian or gay? Speaking of double standards

Qreen Latifah and any other person
want the world to share in their life when it comes to spending our money to support them and madke them what they are. So why can't she be honest about her love life; no-one wants dirty details of her bedroom; but if she proclaim to be a roll model be truefull to the people. It's not double standards it's truth.

God did create Adam & Eve and that's want Marriage is a MAN & WOMAN, His word never changes
and if Qreen Latifah throught she was marring a man she would not be hidding it. So do the math and keep it real.