Vivica A. Fox And Raven-Symoné
Vivica A. Fox and Raven Symone were pictured at the First Annual Essence Black Women In Hollywood Luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel held in Beverly Hills last night.Vivica has a new film that exposes homosexuality in the black community called “Closer” that is now out in theaters.Here is the synopsis of “Cover”:
It’s about a young woman who comes from Atlanta with her daughter and husband. They come to LA and he’s a young doctor. He has his own practice and she helps him. After a certain point, the practice grows beyond their wildest dreams. They move to the Palisades and have a great house and in the middle of this, she finds out that her husband just betrayed her. The story is how she deals with it and her redemption and also his redemption. It’s also a murder mystery and who killed a certain person.
Here is what Vivica had to say:
I just think that the African American culture is a little homophobic and we like to think that AIDS was a gay disease and we’ve tried to sweep it underneath the rug and that it affects other people. Since the 80s, the only person we thought was affected by it was Magic Johnson, and he’s still alive and we’re all good. I just believe it’s just a little bit of us that are homophobic and we need to address the issue and more importantly we need to practice safe sex.
She added:
“We all hope that we can have good friends like that,” “Sometimes we turn a blind eye when we’re in love. Sometimes it takes a friend to bring you the proof … and the 38,”“If it’s someone who is close to me, I will. If it’s someone I should mind my business about then that’s when I say, ‘Ok, I’m gonna mind my business.’ But if it’s my girl, I think I [should], but I’ll tell her, ‘Whatever you decide to do with this information, it’s on you.’”
