All posts tagged "coming out"
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English football player Robbie Rogers explains his decision to come out and leave soccer behind
“I started feeling very different and it was a case of, ‘All right, I’m good at football and I get attention from girls. Why don’t...
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The Politics of Pain
Whether we're twink or bear, gaybro or drag queen, lipstick or butch, we all share one cultural touchstone: coming out. While the concept has been...
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‘Gomer Pyle’ actor Jim Nabors married to male partner after 38 years
Hawaii News Now reports that actor Jim Nabors married his partner, Stan Cadwallader, in Seattle two weeks ago. “I’m 82 and he’s in his 60s...
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The Uncivil War over Jodie Foster
Rather than my usual rambling preamble I'll jump right in because I have limited space and this topic inspires a vomitous number of words: Jodie...
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Mika comes out to Instinct, no surprises here!
“If you ask me am I gay, I say yeah. Are these songs about my relationship with a man? I say yeah. And it’s only...
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Life in Coopersville
Naturally, I already knew that Anderson Cooper was gay, for a number of reasons. First, I work in Washington as a journalist, an industry of...
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Anderson Cooper officially comes out to Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish
“It’s become clear to me that by remaining silent on certain aspects of my personal life for so long, I have given some the mistaken...
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How should Anderson Cooper celebrate his coming out?
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Maryland Marriage Equality Supporters Expand Campaign, Planning for November Referendum
Marylanders for Marriage Equality, the coalition of groups fighting to uphold Maryland’s recently passed marriage equality law, announced on May 7 that they had opened...
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When did you come out?
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Frantastic!
In January of 1985, intruders broke into the Los Angeles home of Fran Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobson. Drescher was raped, while Jacobson, held at...
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Beyond Bare
When Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi killed himself in 2010, Carl Menninger might have been more disturbed than most. As a gay assistant professor at...
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Actor Matt Bomer, soon to appear in The Normal Heart, comes out
At Towleroad, Andy Towle notes that USA Network’s White Collar actor Matt Bomer, “who has up till now lived in a glass closet (most industry...
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Cynthia Nixon comes out again as “bisexual,” but in a gay relationship
For reasons all her own, actress Cynthia Nixon has given the Advocate magazine a clarification about her sexual orientation. She has been under pressure since...
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Russell Simmons hits the Tweet button a little too fast over Taylor Lautner People “cover”
“Proud of Taylor Lautner for his bravery and his courage.” A tweet (since removed) by music mogul Russell Simmons, after the internet release of an...
