Famous/Highly Visible Queers

[Nat]

Gandhi

In letters, Gandhi wrote to Kallenbach, "How completely you have taken possession of my body. This is slavery with a vengeance. "

"Your portrait (the only one) stands on my mantelpiece in the bedroom," he writes. "The mantelpiece is opposite the bed."

This article also talks about his racism. :/

[Nat]

Paul Marcarelli - Verizon's "Can you hear me now" guy



Marcarelli, who is gay, also says that kids used to drive past his home in Guilford, Connecticut, at night, yelling, "Can you hear me now?" and spewing gay slurs. He says he never filed a police report because he was afraid of the publicity.

"I didn’t want to be put in a position to have to answer any uncomfortable question that would affect my income stream," says the actor.

[Nat]

Don Lemon - CNN anchor

[Nat]

W. H. Auden

(poet)

[Soon]

Originally Posted by Nat

Don Lemon - CNN anchor

What a great interview--love Don Lemon!

Thanks for sharing, Nat.

[Nat]

Espn's Jared Max

Thursday, May 19 was a typical day for most people. However, for sportscaster Jared Max, his world would be changed forever—by his own doing.

That morning, Max announced on his ESPN 1050/WEPN early morning show that he was gay.

“I had to do this for myself,” Max admits. “I’m 37 now [at] what point do I say, ‘This is the one life we know we’re going to have, what the hell am I keeping quiet for? Why am I doing this to myself?”

Max, who came out to his mother when he was 21, was ready to make peace on a larger scale thanks to his cats.

“I remember telling my cat Mush the night before, ‘I think something might happen tomorrow.’”

By the next morning, Max still uncertain told his other cat, “Things might be a little different when I come home.”

As he arrived at the station, the potential decision obviously weighed heavily on his mind. Max began to work on scripts for his show, starting with a piece on his being gay. He had it saved for the program’s end.

“It wasn’t until 10, 15, 20, 30 seconds before that I knew, ‘Ok, I’m doing it,’” Max admits.

Max, well known to commuters for his morning drive sports reports on WCBS 880 for more than a decade, joined 1050 on March 30.

“It’s just that great fear that I wouldn’t be able to be myself,” Max says. “And for the first nine days on the air, I really wasn’t myself.”

Once he told his audience, Max admits that his confidence was back.

“Then on Friday, I went in and for the first time I had felt I had the exact same swagger back that I had while I was at CBS.”

Part of the reason Max jumped ship to ESPN was to host his own 5 a.m. show, before handling local updates on The Mike and Mike Show. That helped to suppress the veteran sports anchor from coming out at 880.

“I did two-minute sportscasts and where was I going to squeeze it in,” Max says.

But Max also had timing on his side. In recent weeks, a couple of high-profile sports figures said they were gay. Rick Welts, the Phoenix Suns president and CEO, became the first team sports exec to come out. Former Villanova basketball standout Will Sheridan also told the world about his sexuality. In addition, CNN anchor Don Lemon joined the growing list of notable personalities finding comfort in their own skin.

Max, who has been single since November 2010, says being in a relationship isn’t easy—straight or gay—when you’re getting up for work at 1 a.m.

Now, as Max makes his way publicly through the second phase of his career, he is overwhelmed by the positive feedback, especially by his new employer.

“They’ve just been absolutely phenomenal,” Max says. “I got a phone call on Friday afternoon from George Bodenheimer, the president of ESPN, calling to offer his support, congratulations, and good luck.”

With so many text messages and emails from other well-wishers, Max knew almost instantly he made the right decision.

“This has taken off in a way that I never knew could be this way,” Max says. “I felt things later that day after coming out [that] I never knew I would feel. Life is good… I have such an incredible wealth of friends and love and support and knowledge. I feel like one of the richest men in the world.”

[Nat]

Zachary Quinto (newer Spock)

Dan Kleoffler (ABC news anchor)

[tapu]

Originally Posted by John Shaft

I need to post this before Super Femme goes thru the entire gay encylopedia.

I don't know if he's gay but his jacket sure is.

[tapu]

Originally Posted by Medusa

Sara Gilbert! - Little sister of Melissa Gilbert, and start of tv's "Roseanne"

I was in Santa Cruz on the way to the SF Pride Parade with three friends and we pulled into an In/Out -- and Melissa Gilbert was right there in front of our windshield. Of course, my non-Californian friends had to yell out "Darlene!!" and she scowled and hurried away. I was mortified.

[tapu]

Leonard Cohen, composer

Susie Bright, Lesbian pornographer

Betty Ford, ha ha just kidding

[Starbuck]

Amy Ray and Emily Saliers.

[Toughy]

I don't know why, but Leonard came to my mind today at the SF VA Medical Center. I had the honor and privilege of knowing him.


"The epitaph he chose to mark his grave is still as fresh as today's headlines: 'When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one'." -- The Associated Press.

It has been an unfathomable thirty-five years since TSGT Leonard Matlovich, the first service member to out himself to fight the military's ban, walked out of the Langley Air Force Base hearing where his discharge had just been announced and held a Kennedy Bicentennial half dollar up to waiting mesmerized reporters. Ironically, it was engraved with an image of Philadelphia's Independence Hall where his mentor gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny had first led a gay rights demonstration a decade before. Leonard told them:

"It says '200 Years of Freedom'. Maybe not in my lifetime but we are going to win in the end."

www.leonardmatlovich.com

He was right.

[tapu]

Super Nanny! (Jojo Something) I love Super Nanny. Not so much as a nanny, though.

[Nat]

Anna Paquin Counters Biphobia in New Statements

"I’m sure for some people saying they’re bisexual feels less scary than making a statement that they’re gay.” Paquin told the interviewer. "For me, it’s not really an issue because I’m someone who believes being bisexual is actually a thing. It’s not made up. It’s not a lack of decision. It’s not being greedy or numerous other ignorant things I’ve heard at this point….. For a bisexual, it’s not about gender. That’s not the deciding factor for who they’re attracted to."

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[Dante]

Finally.....Queen Latifah, officially came out and announced on the news ....

[Arwen]

Originally Posted by Dante

Finally.....Queen Latifah, officially came out and announced on the news ....

Can you confirm this? What I see is that she is going to be the grand marshal for the Pride but I can't find where she says she is gay. I really admire her so it would be cool if she is. But, I know that there have been gay-supportive grand marshals so maybe that's her position?

Keeping my fingers crossed.

[Dante]

Originally Posted by Arwen

Can you confirmor this? What I see is that she is going to be the grand marshal for the Pride but I can't find where she says she is gay. I really admire her so it would be cool if she is. But, I know that there have been gay-supportive grand marshals so maybe that's her position?

Keeping my fingers cros

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I read it today on the internet. I will get back to you and let you know, beautiful!

[mariamma]

http://sandrarose.com/2012/05/queen-...loset-finally/