For Gay Pride Month, Billboard asked numerous pop culture luminaries to write ‘love letters’ to the LGBTQ community. Below, singer and actress Naya Rivera shares hers. Read more Pride Month love letters here.
I have been so incredibly fortunate to portray a character on television that has meant so much to so many within the LGBTQ community. Off screen, I am a woman who stands in support of equality, and equal rights for all. It has been one of the great blessings in my life to receive such love and touching stories as a result of my portrayal of Santana Lopez on Glee.
We are all put on this earth to be a service to others and I am grateful that for some, my Cheerios ponytail and sassy sashays may have given a little light to someone somewhere, who may have needed it. To everyone whose heartfelt stories I have heard, or read I thank you for truly enriching my life.
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Oh, just like the amount of shit people think I’ve had done to my face. Like, it’s always really weird too, because it’s like […] these people are like, ‘Yeah like, I used to like her but then she like, messed her face up.’ And it’s like okay, but that also really weird to say like, I woke up and maybe it was a bad contour day but just calm down. Like I’m driving around being like, 'Hey, how can we eff this up just like a little bit more?’ No.
Naya Rivera on the most insane thing she’s read about herself that is not true (via naya-rivera)