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when, she said, the network offered to make Raven Baxter a lesbian in a nod to the actual Raven’s now-public queerness. She declined, saying it didn’t make sense for the character. “Disney understood me,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 2018. “They knew it’s not about my sexual orientation. It’s about having fun, it’s about family, it’s about comedy, it’s about good content … I love them forever for embracing me.
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Ashley Spencer (Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire)