“I never thought I would come out because my personal life didn’t matter,” she said at the time. The Disney alum felt like she couldn’t be honest about her sexuality because she had been “branded at such a young age” to fit the network’s image. And you create a family with these people that sometimes are closer to you than your own family.” “Being on television sets from age 3 till age 30, I’m more comfortable there,” she said in a May 2016 video for the Lexus L/Studio docuseries It Got Better. Three years later, she spoke about her journey to self-acceptance and admitted that she “never thought” she would publicly come out. “I can finally get married! Yay government! So proud of you,” she wrote at the time. The That’s So Raven alum’s personal life became the subject of headlines in August 2013 when she tweeted her reaction to the legalization of same-sex marriage. Sharing with pride! Celebrities like Raven-Symoné, Dan Levy and more have become important figures within the LGBTQ community as they’ve championed equality both on and offscreen.
