During her coronation as the Lifetime Achievement doyenne at the 2021 BET Awards Sunday, Queen Latifah finally addressed her long-questioned sexual orientation after the star mentioned her longtime partner, Eboni Nichols, and their son, Rebel. “Peace — happy pride!” exclaimed Latifah — real name Dana Owens — in the closing remarks of her acceptance speech.
Queen Latifah has previously refused to address years of non-stop rumors about her sexual orientation. In 2010, she was photographed embracing her then-rumored girlfriend on a yacht.
Queen Latifah remembered her mother while accepting the honor, who passed away in 2018. “There is no way that I could have had the parents that I was born to – my father, my mother [who died in 2018], who