Jodie Foster comes out... finally

hmm, so it is isn't a natural gift, to realise queers, who look just like others are people. Do we have to recognise heterosexual people as people too? Maybe we are all chimpanzees. The last time I checked my arms were getting longer, who are these bigots?

Perhaps I should make my comparison based on my experience as a possible chimpanzee, hmm, it seems humans have the ability to recognise shapes and can even read at a basic level. Maybe the humans will soon recognise the folly of their politics and prejudices and embrace a knitpicking government based on pandynamics, then perhaps the trees will be more welcoming.

Wait our intelligence spies tell us they still cannot tell that gays, lesbians and blacks and women are a part of the same race. I guess we will have wait another hundred years before we can help them understand the advanced nature of 'chimping'

I didn't either! I't doesn't make any difference though, I still like her.....

I was of course totally in the dark also about Jodi. However I totally respect her and admire that she has been able to lead a private life and not have every little detail of her life photographed and talked about. She is a excellent actress.

Yes, but the point is, she has never come out about it. She has never acknowledged her partner publicly. And now she has, and that's significant.

Yes, we can say that it's nobody's business, and everyone has a right to a private life. But on Oscar night, we expect that Denzel is there with his wife, and Julia Roberts is there with her husband, and George Clooney's there with his girlfriend, and we don't always know their names, but it's nothing major that there they all are. Most of them don't have to hide their loved ones at home on special occasions, when all the others are showing up as couples.

It's not just important because of what other people know, or because she can be a role model for people, or whatever. It's important because now she has decided to stop hiding it, and now she can take those next steps.

I do,
I am complete normal, everything i do my friends do or atleast accept what i do. I am 1000% the bar of averagidity. Or atleast in my minds eye. I find out my neighbours that are perfectly normal outstanding citzens that never break the law, like to dress up as their favorite fruit and get all freaky in the whipe cream... er wait that sounds kinda cool.. ok they get naked and roll in nails (ok that doesnnt sound cool).. to me it is bizzarre, it is an a front to my advergae world and for god's sake i dont want my kids emulating them.. and you know kids defy their parents in everything..
WE must have a law banning this extremely lewd behavoir that i cant see, have never seen but heard about cause i dont want my kid rolling arround naked in nails.
While outlandish, point is people do some really freaky stuff int he bed room, stuff i can only dream about and often do, but there is even some stuff that would make an open mind like mine go "no f'n way" and while i think what i do is normal, there is probably someone out there that thinks what i od is a bit too freaky. And if they found out i did it, they too may campaign for a law against my entertainments.

Hah, Joules. You're too funny. However, I beg to differ with your self-assessment about being the "1000% the bar of averagidity."

You're far better than even 1000% of normal and I have a feeling you know it.

;-)

Really?

Name an openly gay actor or actress who's been cast as a heterosexual romantic lead in movies.

Just because they may not be cast in leading romantic roles doesn't mean their careers are dead.

Wasn't coming out the reason Rosie O' Donell's talk show got canned?

The episode of Ellen DeGeneres' half-hour sitcom in which she announced she was gay was the most-watched episode of its run (duh) and it wasn't until the following season that her show got canceled. Now she has a hit talk show and she is considered one of the funniest and most loved comedians in the country (though not by me since she crossed the picket line).

And why would a homosexual want to be the leads in hetero romantic films anyway? Are straights eager to play gay leads in movies?

Are straights eager to play gay leads in movies?

Ask Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal

And why would a homosexual want to be the leads in hetero romantic films anyway?

There are several reasons, but the big one is MONEY!

Name an openly gay actor or actress who's been cast as a heterosexual romantic lead in movies.

Hasn't Ann Heche been cast in heterosexual roles? Or does bisexual count? Of course, you have a point, Pev. Most Hollywood actors/actresses--particularly in the old days--preferred to keep their sexual orientation (if it departed from the "norm") quiet. Who would have thought that "Old Ironsides" (aka Raymond Burr) had a gay lover?

No need to take me up on the link below. But somehow it seems appropriate in this forum--although I have to confess that it's a (slightly?) obnoxious stab at self-promotion:

http://rebecca-yarowsky.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/17/841751-dragging-them-out-of-the-closet

he's workign on a sex change as we speak.

Not all of them.

just the ones I think are gay.

and Angeline Jolie, I mean not so much the "orientation" as the execution and participation in..... wait, TMI.

I don't care about a particular celebs sexual orientation but I do have fun playing the game "Toupee or not toupee" with a lot of celebs. I'm going to put Ms. Foster in the "Not Toupee" column for now.

Your turn!

Ha! I'm already out, doofus!

I could make a corney joke about strap-ons right about now...

:)

Is that one of those things that magically turns the lights on & off?

Turns the volume up or down

Now THATS The Clapper folks.

Such a nice gift.

I'm too young for this incidious line of conversation. ;)

I have to agree with you on that one.

It is her life, I will be glad when this stuff stops making the news ! Its crazy, who really cares ? She is a fine woman, a excellent actress. That is what matters.

Foster's coming out of the closet tells millions of women that it's ok to be a lesbian -

I thought we got to that point when Hollywood stopped shunning Ellen Degeneres. Ellen came out on her old sitcom in like the 80's, got tossed out of the media darling ranks, came back stronger than ever. She's got a top show and big name advertiser support, the purest measures of American value$ and acceptance.

There is no limit to the American public's fascination with how strangers, privately opt to enjoy body parts.

And who appointed you the Czar of Coming Out Etiquette?

The Pope ?

And who appointed you the Czar of Coming Out Etiquette?

this is the most feeble "coming out" i have ever seen, if it can even be called a coming out.

is jodie foster ashamed of being a Lesbian ? i don't see much gay pride here.

she needs to proudly and loudly tell the world something like........

" I'm here, I'm Queer, Get Used To It !! "

There is nothing wrong with dignified discretion.

I am not sure that we need a "loud and proud", shouting rainbow flag waver in Miss Foster.

One should be able to come out as one chooses. This isn't about who can out gay the others.

(mis dos centavos)

I think STFU applies here. How would you come out as straight to me as a lesbian?

this is complete bull@!$%#.

she barely mentions in passing the support of her partner in an acceptance speach, and you folks get all gushy that she came out.

SHE HASN'T COME OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

she's still in the mother-@!$%#ing closet and afraid.

I think STFU applies here.

oh yeah ?? don't try to silence me just because you don't like what i'm saying.

oh, and observe the COH. telling someone to SHUT THE @!$%# UP isn't part of it.

How would you come out as straight to me as a lesbian?

how would you think that the above sentence could be comprehended by anyone ?

after trying to decipher that non-sensical question, i think you are asking if i was a lesbian but actually straight how would i come out as straight ? is that what you are asking ?

for petes sake.

Straight is not normal, it is just more common.