Disney Executive Producer Latoya Raveneau Says She Identifies as a ‘Biromantic Asexual’

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RAVENEAU: "I identify as, like, a biromantic asexual. I’ve had a lot of learning and growing about myself this year, kind of facilitated by how comfortable I felt on The Proud Family, and with my immediate team at Disney TVA. And so, it’s just sort of like this creative dissonance between my personal experience where I feel so safe and so supported. I mean, like, I wasn't in the closet, but I’m real out now. And outside of my team, outside of TVA, it’s just — it feels like the things that we believe that we’re trying to put into the shows are not what we’re seeing in the real world. And, yeah, it leaves you in a weird space. I’m still thinking, like, I want to use my content to go deeper, talk about how non-monolithic the LGBTQ+ community as an asexual — 'as an asexual,' I feel like a lot of people don’t know what that is. I have to have a dissertation ready at any given time. I want to add the pockets of the LGBTQ community that you don’t see. I want to get, like, gay advanced. And then I realized, 'oh shit, we need to go back to, like, Gay 101.'"

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