Opinion | Trish Bendix: Whitney Houston confidante Robyn Crawford confirms their queer relationship — and reclaims her time. - NBCNewsTHINK
There are still very few openly queer black women in the public eye, and while I want to make very clear that homophobia within the black community is not greater than or a larger societal problem than homophobia within white communities or otherwise, there is a generational feel to it. What was once unspoken, taboo, or, in Houston's case, completely unacceptable, has evolved to become, at the very least, a conversation.
“Whitney told me her mother said it wasn’t natural for two women to be that close,” Crawford says, “but we were that close.” Crawford says she and Houston,"never talked about labels, like lesbian or gay. We just lived our lives and I hoped it could go on that way forever.” Crawford's memoir offers yet another outside view of Houston from an insider, someone it could be argued who knew her more intimately than most. No one in Houston's life has denied how important Crawford was to Houston, whom she met when they were both teenagers. And while Crawford has been talked about in interviews, depicted in Lifetime movies, and highlighted in both documentaries,"A Song" will be her first acknowledgment of the"Nippy" she knew and loved.
After many years of seeing her story dictated by others, "A Song" is a gift for those looking to hear from a person who didn't seem to want anything more from Houston than for her to be happy.
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