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Keke Palmer Comes Out, Find Out About Her Sexuality

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Keke Palmer is all grown up and she doesn’t owe you any explanation.

“I’m making the rules for myself, and I don’t have to be stuck down to one label,” the Scream Queens star, 22, says of her sexuality in a new interview with People.

It’s a topic she’s broached before. The former Nickelodeon star’s sexuality first came into question when she released the video for “I Don’t Belong to You” in October. In it, she leaves her boyfriend and ends up with a woman, who just so happens to be played by Cassie.

“I think the point of the whole video was to let people know that that my sexuality is up to me,” Palmer told Cosmopolitan in November. “That’s really the point — it’s female autonomy and her being who she wants to be in the world; there’s no labels attached, she’s just doing her! She doesn’t have to explain it to anybody because at the end of the day, it’s her that decides what she wants to do, and who!”

Now that Scream Queens is over, Palmer is focusing on her music and preparing to play the role of Marty Maraschino in Fox’s Grease: Live.

“I don’t feel the need to define nothing to nobody, because I’m always changing. Why say that I’m this or that when I might not be tomorrow?” Palmer tells People.

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Apple Boss says ‘I’m Gay And I Want To Inspire People’

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Apple chief executive Tim Cook has come out of the closet, admitting that he is gay and says he wants to “inspire people to insist on their equality”.

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Writing in Businessweek he said: “Let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.

“Being gay has given me a deeper understanding of what it means to be in the minority and provided a window into the challenges that people in other minority groups deal with every day.

“It’s made me more empathetic, which has led to a richer life.”

Mr Cook has never publicly acknowledged his sexuality, but said he was motivated to speak about it to inspire others.

He said: “I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realise how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others.

“So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.”

He emphasised that Apple has “long advocated for human rights and equality for all”, and cited its intervention in Arizona – where it successfully urged the governor to veto a bill which would have let businesses discriminate against homosexuals.

But he said his decision to publicly come out was not an easy choice, adding: “Privacy remains important to me, and I’d like to hold on to a small amount of it.”