Those damned lesbian rumors continue to dog Queen Latifah. Or could they be true?
It depends on whether you believe the National Inquirer – or The View – which claims the rap star, who avoids answering sexually-related questions, plans to wed her long-time lesbian love, Jeannette Jenkins. The Cleveland Leader provides all the sapphic gossip:
Neither Queen Latifah nor her partner have ever officially come out. Queen Latifah has, however, given her special friend attention and treatment that suggests they’re more than just good friends. Last year she bought Jeannette a Range Rover, and had it delivered to a restaurant to surprise her.
According to the National Enquirer, the couple are “planning an intimate ceremony with close famiy and friends.” They are also reportedly interested in adopting an American baby.
Well that’s truly ground-breaking: when was the last time you heard of a celebrity adopting an American baby? Go Latifah!
fredo777
I wouldn’t trust anything the Enquirer says, but I do love hearing about Queenie.
flightoftheseabird
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.
cmh
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.
M Shane
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..
Kevin Foster
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.
SeaFlood
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.
Progression
I love watching Living Single marathons on cable and am proud to see the career QL’s made for herself since.
fredo777
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.
chuck
>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?
hisurfer
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.
Alexa
Didn’t she speak against gay marriage a while back, or am I confused? (wouldn’t be the first time)
Daniel
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.
CitizenGeek
Had no idea everyone knew she was gay until this post! It’s cool, though!
Progression
>>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.
CAm
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.
Alan down in Florida
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.
Dave
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.
M Shane
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.
Ebonee
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
angelgirl32209
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.
DaniRaye
Angelgirl32209…that may be so, in regards to the Word of God, but who is to say that the reason why she hasn’t come out of the closet is b/c she doesn’t agree with the way she feels? Why do people have to get naked in front of everyone just to prove they have private parts and imperfections like we do? We know she has a sexuality and whether or not it’s a gay or straight one should be left up to her to tell simply because we don’t know her individual struggles. For those of us who believe the Word of God to be just that, we should pray for her strength to be who God desires her to be. Our own opinions to the side and nothing more, nothing less. And for the record…just b/c Queen is an artist on the screen and in the music scene doesn’t obligate her to dish out on her sexuality just like when you go to work everyday, your sexuality shouldn’t be called to question WHEN it has NOTHING to do with how well you do your job. Her sexuality is not her gift – don’t get it twisted! It’s folks who try to control people with their wallets that make the world such a dumb place to live for those who are actually gifted and talented and can make a positive difference for someone else’s life. You wanna run everything with your conflicting opinions yet you won’t subject your own life to what say you live by. I’m out…
mike
First off i like Queen, as an artist a strong women but that dosnt mean i accept homosexuality from any person and since my lord and savior is against it and he went out his way to rebuk this action and there is no history of this action being celebrated biblicly or historically im pretty much going to side with the lord on this one, but hey all of you who are fine with it, do what you do maybe that will leave room for me to get in and i would give anything to see how many of you stand up for your homo friends on judgement day and see how many of them you are willing to trade with, thats what it all balls down to.
M Shane
Mike, I’ll stand up for my “homo” friends anyu day before I’d try to get hate filled bigots like you anywhere, especially heaven. There should be a realy special nook in hell for smallminded idiots like you , who no one willstand up for anywhere.
M Shane
p.s. since these vacation spots are entirely in your own psychotic delusions, I’m sur you’ll have an easy time finding them.
elijah
i love queen latifah but why did she have to be gay
M Shane
Elijah:
Elijah:
That’s like saying I love lemonade but why does it have to be made of lemons. She’s so much a bull dyke that she would be faking if she said she was straight.
FlyFoy
@Progression: (To Daniel also)
Jodie Foster IS out.
FlyFoy
@elijah:
Now that’s one of the silliest comments ever. She had to be gay because that’s who she is. She didn’t have a choice. You, however, have a choice as to whether you want to be open-minded or close-minded. Unfortunately, you’ve chosen the latter.
hope
No one ws born gay, we are all born with a freedom of choice….
althea
ok hello out there all you free thinking people i would now like to put in my two cents worth . if i might. just finished viewing the single ladies segment where tifah swipes a piece of lint off dash’s ass. well methinks ya girl is in good form, see she knows what she likes and shes goin for it. as always , the lion does not sleep tonite.