Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBT advocate who rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, becoming the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category.
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She is also the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990.
Is Laverne Cox in a relationship? In January 2021, Cox revealed in an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that she’s in a relatiomship with a “new guy”. However, she didn’t disclose his identity.
“We’ve been hanging out for six months,” she said. “It went really slowly. The word love just sort of happened around November, December.”
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Cox said her new boyfriend “has never dated a trans woman before,” as was the case with her previous two relationships.
“The issue over the years for me as a trans woman and other trans women is that the womanhood of trans women is often disavowed,” she said.
“A lot of people don’t see trans women as women. So, the men that are attracted to women, people think they are gay. And if you are a straight man, you don’t want people to think you’re gay. So a lot of the times they don’t want to disclose or want to let anyone know.”
And while she said it’s typically her partners who want to keep the relationship under wraps because she is trans, Cox has found that now that she lives her life in the spotlight, she’s the one who craves privacy.
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