Meredh Baxter: Y, I'm gay

Contents:

• MERITH BAXTER ADMS IT WAS MICHAEL J. FOX THAT MA HER GAY
• MEREDH BAXTER: Y, I'M GAY
• MEREDH BAXTER FROM "FAY TI": I'M GAY

MERITH BAXTER ADMS IT WAS MICHAEL J. FOX THAT MA HER GAY

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MEREDH BAXTER: Y, I'M GAY

It's no secret that I'm gay, but has been to the greater world. Baxter has been datg women for the past seven years, and "the thought of beg gay never crossed my md, " she said. "People say, 'You had to have known know you were gay.

' I realized, I was so un-self-examed, I uld have been a Republin, but no, I'm jt gay. Gay & Lbian Center's 2013 "An Eveng Wh Women" gala, Beverly Hills, California. A few choice qutns om the Advote, scroll down for "Today" quot:When did you realize you were gay?

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MEREDH BAXTER FROM "FAY TI": I'M GAY

Before Baxter, 62, first started datg women seven years ago, the thought of beg gay “had never crossed my md, ” she tells PEOPLE.

' I realized I was so un-self-examed, I uld have been a Republin, but no, I'm jt gay, " she said. March 2, 2011 — -- Meredh Baxter led a "secret life" as an emotnally abed wife for years before learng she was gay and enterg "the healthit relatnship I have ever had, " the star of the '80s show, "Fay Ti, " told Oprah Wey today while holdg the hand of her lbian, 63, also joed by her former televisn -star, Michael Gross, and her children, appeared on "Oprah" to discs her allegedly abive marriage and what led her to disver she was gay. "At one pot, Wey asked Baxter's children if they knew their mother was gay.