Diane Guerrero Opens Up About Exploring Her Sexuality

Diane Guerrero is opening up about her sexuality in a recent interview.

The actress, best known for her role as Maritza Ramos in Orange is the New Black, spoke with Insider about a range of vulnerable topics, including how she identifies — which seems to be something she’s still figuring out.

The conversation opened around a tattoo she has on her wrist reading “IPOC,” for Indigenous people of color, with Guerrero noting she had wanted to get a tattoo reading QTPOC instead. At the time, it seemed like the wrong fit, but something has since changed.

“I support trans lives, and I am exploring my sexual identity,” she revealed, “so maybe I’ll add the QT.”

The interview also touches on her view of the future, which seems to include some sort of polyamorous scenario with a number of “partners who aren’t straight, cisgender men” and where everyone lives together on a farm.

This isn’t the first time Guerrero has suggested that she no longer identifies as straight.

During an interview with Entertainment Weekly earlier this year about a potential sequel to Encanto, she spoke passionately about how she “knows” the character she voices, Isabela, is gay, and hopes Disney would explore that openly.

When the reporter pressed her on what makes her so certain of Isabela’s sexuality if it hasn’t been discussed with Disney, Guerrero responded that she can just tell “as an actor, and as a person who’s breaking free and starting to get to know her own sexuality, and a person who is just living in this world, who understands that there is just a huge spectrum and there’s just so much to love and so much to be, that I don’t want to be constricted by societal norms or what my gender dictates or what anybody else’s gender dictates.”

Her comments as both instances serve as wonderful reminders that people don’t have to have everything figured out or pick a label in order to feel comfortable talking about their sexuality or their exploration of it. At the end of the day, we’re all just figuring things out as we go.

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