Famous/Highly Visible Queers

[Arwen]

Originally Posted by mariamma

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

Thanks, but that didn't say she was coming out. It just said she was in the parade. I want her to say it.

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[Kobi]

In a new profile in the New York Times, The Big Bang Theory star is matter-of-factly described "gay and in a 10-year relationship."

Jim Parsons never directly addresses his sexuality or elaborates on the remark in the profile, and his rep had no additional comment when reached.

The Times profile couches its revelation in the context of the actor's most recent Broadway role as Tommy Boatwright in Larry Kramer's powerful play, The Normal Heart, about gay men dying of AIDS in New York in the '80s.

According to the profile, "The Normal Heart resonated with him on a few levels: Mr. Parsons is gay and in a 10-year relationship, and working with an ensemble again onstage was like nourishment, he said."

http://www.people.com/people/article...ntent=My+Yahoo

[Arwen]

HEY! Queer fam (+ others) did you know @katebornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger? http://kck.st/JKu2Ru Let's get this thing started!

[QueenofSmirks]

Vanessa Selbst, poker player-- almost $5 million in tournament earnings so far. "Highly visible" if you care about poker

[Kobi]

When Obama made his groundbreaking public announcement advocating gay marriage, he probably didn’t expect his earth-shattering liberal legacy to extend first and foremost to fictional characters. But love moves in mysterious ways, and in this case dons a cape and some lycra. Marvel Comics’ only openly gay X-Man, Northstar, is proposing to his boyfriend.

This all happens in the “Astonishing X-Men” issue out this week. The couple are to have a wedding ceremony in New York City’s Central Park, only after Northstar – who came out in a pioneering issue of the comic in 1992 – plucks up the courage to propose to his long-term boyfriend Kyle, which plays out with some rather adorable self-awareness in the speech bubbles:

Northstar, ears pointing in tense anticipation: “We need to talk…I’m not going to vomit. I’m just…nervous.”

Kyle, nonplussed: “Are we being invaded by aliens again?”

Marvel decided that this momentous occasion should take place when the state of New York legalized gay marriage in June last year. Tom Brevoort, Marvel executive editor, explained to New York Daily News:

“A lot of our Marvel super heroes live in and around New York City so it just immediately became an issue we started thinking about.”

This storyline is the latest example of the comic book world’s concerted effort to raise LGBT awareness using its popular and well-known characters.

Dan Didio (not a comic character himself, despite how it sounds), editor in chief of D.C. Comics – which publishes the Superman and Batman titles, among others – dropped a tantalizing hint a few days ago that one of D.C.’s characters would soon be flying out of the closet, although our next gay superhero’s identity is under wraps until next month. (And no, the longstanding Batman-Robin bromance doesn’t count).

Actually, D.C. already has one crime-fighting gay heroine: Batwoman, described as “a lesbian socialite by night and a crime-fighter by later in the night,” who made her first appearance with the D.C. imprint Detective Comics in 2009.

Herndon Graddick, President of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, praised Northstar and Kyle’s coming nuptials: “When a major comic publisher like Marvel not only includes, but publicly celebrates, the legal wedding of two of its gay characters, it reflects how supporting same-sex couples has become the new normal … Readers expect to see their realities portrayed in these fictional worlds and today that includes married gay and lesbian couples.”



Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/23/...#ixzz1vpIWjTrW

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Paula Poundstone

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Anne Burrell
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[Little Fish]

Let us not forget the American-born, Canadian-citizen, author, educator and activist Jane Rule. She wrote the book "Desert of the Heart" which was later made into the movie "Desert Hearts" by producer and director, Donna Deitch (herself a noted lesbian contributor to the arts).

Jane and her long-time partner Helen (also an author), lived for over 25 years on Galiano Island in Vancouver, BC. Noted by the small and intimate island community to be both kind and generous, they effectively offered the use of their private swimming pool to be used by the island community at large. In fact, three generations of islanders would tell you they learned to swim in their pool, Jane standing Life Guard for countless summmers.

I had the pleasure of knowing "Aunt J" personally, as her niece and I were lovers, living together for three years or so. Jane and Helen were such profoundly decent people, grounded and eschewing all the entrapments that come with celebrity status. I miss them both but am so grateful to live in the world they helped make for me, solely by speaking and living their truths.

[Kobi]

Swedish alpine skiing star Anja Paerson ended years of rumours Saturday when she revealed she had a long-term girlfriend, Filippa, and that she is expecting a baby.

"I am tired of being someone else and of playing a game. I owe it to myself and especially to Filippa to tell the truth," Paerson said on a programme on Swedish public radio that each week during the summer has a new celebrity host.

The 31-year-old Olympic champion, who retired following the World Cup earlier this year in Schladming, Austria, has for years faced rumours about her personal life.

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[Kobi]

The fact is, I'm gay," Cooper wrote in an email to Daily Beast blogger Andrew Sullivan. "Always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...--finance.html

[Soon]

Originally Posted by Kobi

The fact is, I'm gay," Cooper wrote in an email to Daily Beast blogger Andrew Sullivan. "Always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...--finance.html

"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 impression that I am trying to hide something - something that makes me uncomfortable, ashamed or even afraid. This is distressing because it is simply not true. I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible." -Anderson Cooper