Sharing with pride! Celebrities like Raven-Symoné, Dan Levy and more have become important figures within the LGBTQIA+ community as they’ve championed equality on and offscreen.

The That’s So Raven alum’s personal life made headlines in August 2013 when she tweeted her reaction to the legalization of same-sex marriage. “I can finally get married! Yay government! So proud of you,” she wrote at the time.

Three years later, Symoné spoke about her journey to self-acceptance and admitted that she “never thought” she would publicly come out.

Symoné 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. “I never thought I would come out because my personal life didn’t matter,” she said in a May 2016 video for the Lexus L/Studio docuseries It Got Better. “It was only what was supposed to be sold as the Raven-Symoné brand.”

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Raven-Symoné married wife Miranda Pearman-Maday in 2020, and she’s just one of the many Hollywood celebs who proudly embraced their identity. Scroll down to learn more about stars’ coming out stories:

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