Jodie Foster comes out as gay

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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on January 14, 2013 at 8:45pm

I tend to agree with Michelangelo Signorile on that one - It's a complicated piece that's too nuanced for me to try to summarize.  If she came out without coming out, it doesn't sound to me like she really came out.  Unless she came out.

Permalink Reply by Dominic Florio on January 14, 2013 at 9:02pm

She did come out, but she did also ramble and said that she had been out for a long time.  she also talked about privacy.  I think if you want privacy you become an accountant.  Publicity and your life being under the microscope is what acting and Hoolywood are all about.  If being gay is to be "private" that indicates that there is something of which to be ashamed.  I realize that things were different years ago, but we are living in a time when actors are coming out all of the time and still getting work.

Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on January 14, 2013 at 9:10pm

Now waiting for John Travolta and Tom Cruise to come out together and tell us they have been in love with each other for decades and out for a long time.  TomJohn - or is it Cruisolta? -  will be in the headlines for hours!

Permalink Reply by Steph S. on January 28, 2013 at 10:04pm

Glad she came out.

Permalink Reply by dr kellie on January 30, 2013 at 2:47pm

As an out gay, I found the whole thing irritating.  She needs to get over herself.

Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on January 30, 2013 at 7:01pm

Dr. K,

I only watched a bit of the speech, on the web.  It seemed both spacey and smug.  Plus, I also wanted to say, get over it.  This was like, say, me coming out as Caucasian.  What, she didn't know that everyone already knew?

Permalink Reply by dr kellie on January 31, 2013 at 10:09am

Smug is correct.  I was not at all impressed.  She must think she is pretty clever.

Permalink Reply by David Philip Norris on February 8, 2013 at 12:42pm

Hasn't she been out since at least 2002, at least quietly?