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Famous lesbians - Jacqueline Wilson
Author Jacqueline Wilson came out publicly in at the age of 74, although she said her relationship with her partner Trish had never been a covert. “I’ve never really been in any kind of closet,” Wilson told The Guardian. “It would be such old news for anybody that has ever known anything much about me. Even the vaguest acquaintance knows perfectly well that we are a couple.”
Famous lesbians - Megan Rapinoe
US soccer star and co-captain Megan Rapinoe spoke to CNN and said she didn't know she was gay when she was younger. "It's so embarrassing because I'm just very gay, I don't know how it happened but as soon as it clicked I was like she has arrived. She is here. Her life is beginning."
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Famous lesbians - Lena Waithe
Master of None actor Lena Waithe said, at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards in , "Being born gay, black and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to
22 Celebrities Who Champion LGBTQ+ Rights, From Elliot Page To Billy Porter
Elliot Page
In December , Page came out as transgender on his Instagram account, introducing himself and sharing that he goes by he/they pronouns.
'I will present whatever support I can and continue to strive for a more loving and equal society,' he wrote in his statement, which can be read here.
Page married his wife Emma Portner in
In , the Juno star came out as gay at the Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive conference which promotes LGBT welfare.
He noted: 'I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of all that pain.'
Following their eight-minute speech, he finished by saying with 'I love you' and was met with a standing ovation from the crowd.
Jonathan Bailey
Bridgerton actor Bailey has long been a proponent for LGBTQ+ rights, and recently opened up about his drea
Susanna Kwan (关菊英)
Susanna Kwan (L) and her partner [File Photo]
Susanna Kwan, born in May , is a Hong Kong singer and actress. Beginning her career at the age of 14, Kwan became a Hong Kong A-list singer around s and s.
From to , Kwan moved to Canada, and returned to Hong Kong after Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) invited her to be the host of a singing program. After that, she started performing in a series of TVB television dramas.
Kwan married Michael Lai Siu-Tin, a noted Hong Kong composer, but they divorced later. Since , she has dated her female partner Willy, and openly acknowledged her sexual orientation in
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Riley Mac, poet and co-founder of monthly New York reading series &#;Straight Girls,&#; pens a Pride month op-ed on the death of lesbian celebrities.
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Pride month just ended and I’m trying to reconcile the culture war in my mind. Lesbians in my friend group are dating men. Celebrities JoJo Siwa, Billie Eilish, and Fletcher are also dating men. I bitch and moan and wonder, is being a lesbian really so insufferable? What the fuck is going on?
For whatever reason, “lesbian culture” is a fraction of gay male culture IRL, so when celebrities give us a morsel, we get on our knees and stick out our tongues. When a female celebrity tells us she’s queer and commodifies her queerness, we hold to believe her. She doesn’t owe proof of her queerness, right? “Sexuality is fluid,” I keep reading in comment sections, Reddit threads, and thinkpieces. Yeah, totally! But when I scan, “Sexuality is fluid,” it’s never about men. I keep trying to imagine the inverse. Gay-identifed men falling in love with women. Of course it happens, r