Well, here goes. I really resent the term, but I use it because it’s recognized and accepted.
I’m gay.
From some seventy years of personal experience, I can tell you that there’s not much “gay” about being homosexual. For the first twenty years of my life, I had to live in the shadows, in a culture that was — at least outwardly — totally hostile to any hint of that variation of life-style.
James Randi (
previously), at age 81, has come out. He discusses the announcement in more detail on the
JREF podcast
For Good Reason.
posted by Horace Rumpole
on Mar 21, 2010 -
144 comments
Gareth Thomas is the first Welshman to have played in 100 rugby union test matches for his country. He also played in three tests for the British and Irish Lions on their tour of New Zealand in 2005, captaining the side in two of those matches. The 6'3", 226 lbs. utility back now plays for the Cardiff Blues. At one point, the Welsh rugby legend held the try-scoring record for Wales. In today's Daily Mail, Thomas
revealed he is gay.
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posted by jleisek
on Dec 19, 2009 -
51 comments
Jamiel Terry, the gay son of charismatic anti-gay activist and Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, wrote an
article for Out magazine about growing up in a fundamentalist household. Randall Terry
responded to his son's article. Interviews with
Randall and
Jamiel about the exchange.
posted by Falconetti
on Nov 17, 2006 -
106 comments
Boston Herald sports reporter outs himself in print and asks why people in the world of sports still have to hide.
Frankly, I'm out because I can't come up with a single logical reason why I should have denied myself the right to live and work as openly and freely as everyone else. Nor should anyone find a reason why an openly gay athlete should be denied the right to play a team sport without fear of becoming a target of prejudice or physical harm. See
Outsports for more info on the subject, and an interesting
pro and con on whether gay baseball players should come out.
posted by amberglow
on Sep 30, 2003 -
59 comments
There is a conspiracy theory that has been making the rounds on the net for quite
some time now. In it, the actor
Elijah Wood (Frodo) and
Dominic Monaghan (Merry)
are a gay couple that have been together since the filming of The Lord of the Rings.
And they want to come out...but contracts and a whole lot of money at stake are keeping
them in. So what do they do? Start testing the waters by infiltrating a gay gossip site
called
Data Lounge. Test the waters. Get media attention brought to them so they can out
themselves as smoothly as possible and not get in trouble. Going on for some time now,
the saga is up to
thread 14 and shows no sign of slowing down. There are cryptic posts,
shoutouts through clothing,
PR beardings,
interviews, sheep,
photographs, insiders and trolls. And
the strangest thing of all is that some of the proof is strangely compelling. Examples of all this
and the "proofs" can be found
here.
So after looking at many of the "facts", do you think it possible that two young actors might be
trying to test the waters to come out in a novel fashion? And more importantly this all raises
the question; do you think mainstream America (and the world in general) is ready to accept
young openly gay men in cinema as leading men? Or is it career suicide?
posted by Windigo
on Feb 4, 2003 -
54 comments
Here's an 'update' on the gay highschool football capitan that decided to come out of the closet and was warmly accepted, blah blah blah. I was reading this and I realized that I have absolutely *no* idea how my friends would react if I, or anyone else, 'came out'. Although I knew a few gays while I was growing up in the states, I do not know a single gay person in Poland. It made me think...
posted by jedrek
on Apr 27, 2000 -
1 comment
