Tessa Thompson came out as bisexual in 2018. Soon, fans began to speculate about whether Thompson and singer Janelle Monae were an item — after all, they'd been spotted together for years. "It's tricky, because Janelle and I are just really private people and we're both trying to navigate how you reconcile wanting to have that privacy and space, and also wanting to use your platform and influence," she told Net-a-Porter. While Thompson didn't reveal the nature of their relationship, she hinted that she had thought about announcing their relationship status in order to help other queer people find the courage to do the same. "Do I have a responsibility to talk about that?" she wondered. "Do I have a responsibility to say in a public space that this is my person?"
For her, representing queerness on screen has become vital — and as she told Variety, she'd love to see her "Thor" character, Valkyrie, in a queer romance. "I think a part of really being able to normalize queer characters, LBGTQIA characters, is to allow them to exist in their humanity and that doesn't always mean that they're in love or in a partnership because plenty of us know that sometimes you're not," she said. "So, yeah, we'll see if she finds love."
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