Tag Archives: coming out

Meredith Baxter Comes Out

Meredith Baxter, star of the 80s sitcom Family Ties and numerous Lifetime movies about bulimia, came out this morning on the Today Show. “I am a lesbian and it was a later-in-life recognition,” she told Matt Lauer on TODAY. “Some people would say, well, you’re living a lie and, you know, the truth is — not at all. This has …

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Gay Irish Sports Hero: Taunts Have Driven My Mother Away From Games

Irish sports hero Donal Og Cusack, who came out yesterday in advance of the publication of his autobiography, today reveals that homophobic abuse from fans in the stands has driven his mother away from attending his matches. Donal Og recalled the moment he was waiting to take a free at a championship game in Semple Stadium, when a man started …

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HomoQuotable – Elton John

“I made the mistake of not having sex until I was 23! I loved being with another man and felt relieved that I finally knew who I was. I made the mistake of falling in love too soon because I was naive and romantic. My advice to you is to never chase love. It will find you when you least …

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Irish Sports Hero Comes Out

Donal Og Cusack, an Irish national hero in the rough sport of hurling, has come out of the closet in a new autobiography. All-Ireland hurling star Donal Og Cusack has revealed in an explosive autobiography that he has slept with both men and women before realising he is gay. The player has lifted the lid off his bisexual past in …

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Tomorrow: National Coming Out Day

Tomorrow is National Coming Out Day. In the clip below, an Australian boy named Jack lets his mother tell his coming out story. Sweet stuff.

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Joy Behar Interviews Gay Teens

On her new HLN show, last night Joy Behar interviewed three gay teens about coming out in middle school. Project Runway winner Christian Sirano sits in (and promotes his new book.)

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80’s Flashback

Elton John, Elton’s Song, 1981. Co-written by Elton and Tom Glad To Be Gay Robinson, this song about a gay school boy with a crush on a classmate was banned in several countries due to “homosexual content.” This accompanying video, which may evoke Bronksi Beat’s Smalltown Boy for you, was never aired at the time, although tabloids screamed “Elton’s Gay …

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80’s Flashback

Joe Jackson, Real Men, 1982. This track about coming out, bullying, and machismo was not a radio hit for Jackson despite getting surprisingly heavy rotation on MTV. There was some small controversy about censoring the word “faggot”, but as I recall it was gay activists that insisted that it should remain. Jackson’s never officially come out, writing in his autobiography …

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PhoboQuotable – Kenneth Hutcherson

“Football is like the army — it’s a battle field. In war you have to trust the guy that’s next to you. Now, if a teammate has different views about what they’re attracted to in the showers it’s going to affect the team. It’ll destroy the oneness. “Men are going to be more comfortable with other heterosexuals. It’s like having …

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Adam Lambert Is Bi-Curious

Adam Lambert gives 20/20 fairly standard answers to the coming out questions. He adds, “I would never give myself the label bisexual, but bi-curious? Yeah. I’ve been known to make out with girls from time to time. It’s fun. And who knows? Maybe it’ll go further some day. Who’s the lucky woman?”

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Olbermann On Adam Lambert

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HomoQuotable – Adam Lambert

“I was like, ‘Oh, (bleep), they put me with the cute guy’, Distracting! He’s the one guy that I found attractive in the whole group on the show: nice, nonchalant, pretty and totally my type — except that he has a wife. I mean, he’s open-minded and liberal, but he’s definitely 100 percent straight. “Going into Idol, I assumed, ‘OK, …

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HomoQuotable – Wesley Eure

“After nine years, my [Days Of Our Lives] contract was up, but I was hosting the number one show for Nickelodeon, Finders Keepers. It was on cable, but this was before everybody had Nickelodeon. Mark Summers was doing Double Dare. I was getting bigger ratings than Mark. I became the number one host for kids for two seasons, and then …

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West Point Grad Booted From Army After Coming Out On Rachel Maddow Show

Paging President Obama……

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HomoQuotable – David Ogden Stiers

“From the late 1980s until about seven or eight years ago, you would find certain individuals coming up to you, me, and advocating the position that since we were doing family fare that it would be best were the actors to maintain a certain palatability to parents. These parties likely had heard rumors or harbored suspicions about me and wanted …

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Kelly McGillis Comes Out

I would have sworn this was old news, but apparently Top Gun and The L Word actress Kelly McGillis never came out officially until now. Fifty-one-year young Kelly McGillis is starting her “life in a whole different phase,” she told rocker and SheWired vlogger Jennifer Corday — ostensibly coming out as a lesbian. Corday, in her Girl Rock video blog, …

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Tell 3 (About Your Gay Life)

Via the ACLU: Join the Impact has partnered with other national LGBT groups to develop a web based public education campaign, www.tell-three.org, to encourage LGBT people and their supporters to have three conversations with friends and family to help build support for LGBT equality. “The passage of Prop 8 in California has motivated LGBT people and their supporters like never …

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HomoQuotable – Roger Karoutchi

‘Yes, I have a life. I’m neither living a lie, nor flaunting anything. I discuss it naturally. I have a partner and I’m happy with him. As I’m happy, I see no reason why I should hide that.” – Roger Karoutchi, French Secretary of State for Parliamentary Relations, coming out to the press on Friday. Karoutchi is France’s first out …

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SNL’s History With Gay Hosts

Neil Patrick Harris hosted Saturday Night Live last night. Most of it was unfunny, except for a marginally amusing bit about Broadway falling on hard times. I was wondering about SNL’s history with gay hosts and went off to Wikipedia to research. Here’s what I found. 1976: Lily Tomlin. Not out at the time.1976: Anthony Perkins. Died without coming out.1976: …

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Rachel Maddow On Fan Mail

Friday night on Conan O’Brien, Rachel Maddow said she gets a lot of nice fan mail, but lots of not-so-nice messages too: “You also get the hate mail where people write in specifically to tell me that I’m gay. As if I didn’t know. Oh my God I had no idea. I’ll get off television. That is the single best …

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