Melissa Gilbert's Sisterly Bond Meant She Always 'Kda Knew' Sara Was Gay

Contents:

• SARA GILBERT REALIZED SHE WAS GAY WHILE DATG 'BIG BANG' STAR JOHNNY GALECKI
• MELISSA GILBERT TO SARA GILBERT: I ALWAYS 'KDA KNEW' YOU WERE GAY
• SARA GILBERT ON BEG GAY: 'I STILL FEEL REALLY SRED'
• SARA GILBERT REVEALS SHE FIRST REALIZED SHE WAS GAY WHILE DATG FORMER 'ROSEANNE' -STAR JOHNNY GALECKI
• MELISSA GILBERT TO SARA GILBERT: I ALWAYS ‘KDA KNEW’ YOU WERE GAY
• MELISSA GILBERT'S SISTERLY BOND MEANT SHE ALWAYS 'KDA KNEW' SARA WAS GAY
• SARA GILBERT KNEW SHE WAS GAY AFTER MAKG OUT WH JOHNNY GALECKI
• SARA GILBERT'S SECRET: GAY WHILE KISSG JOHNNY GALECKI
• SARA GILBERT: I REALIZED I WAS GAY WHILE DATG JOHNNY GALECKI
• JOHNNY GALECKI MA SARA GILBERT REALIZE SHE WAS GAY
• SARA GILBERT REALIZED SHE WAS GAY WHILE DATG JOHNNY GALECKI: WATCH HER TELL THE EMOTNAL STORY

SARA GILBERT REALIZED SHE WAS GAY WHILE DATG 'BIG BANG' STAR JOHNNY GALECKI

Actrs and "The Talk" -host Sara Gilbert revealed recently that she realized she was gay while datg "The Big Bang Theory" star Johnny Galecki. ) Then was Ellen DeGener on her eponymo ABC show—though she would later actually e out as a lbian, breakg down barriers and makg room for everyone om the gays of Will & Grace to the ridg, wng, losg, cheat', kissg, thkg, dreamg women of The L before them, and fely before the 's-hip-to-be-queer characters of Riverdale and Runaways, LGBTQ kids didn’t have many folks on TV or movi to mol themselv after. ” The list uld go on, but the ia is the same: people who don’t often get reprented media tend to attach themselv to someone that's close his book The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lbians on TV, Stephen Tropiano lls the “gay-straight” characters, people who may seem queer but are prented as straight.

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MELISSA GILBERT TO SARA GILBERT: I ALWAYS 'KDA KNEW' YOU WERE GAY

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Before ss like All the Fay, Barney Miller, and M h the airwav, gay viewers had to settle for shows exhibg a certa ‘gay appeal. A show like Murphy Brown or The Dick Van Dyke Show uld have gay-but-not characters whom queer dienc uld see themselv if they squted enough, but who never actually had to be gay, let alone sayg they were. Durg s nearly -long n, the show had several queer characters, Roseanne (Roseanne Barr) herself kissed a woman on-air a 1994 episo, and had one of the first-ever gay weddgs on primetime a year later when Leon (Mart Mull) married Stt (Fred Willard).

When he rpond, “I thought you were gog to tell me you were gay, ” she simply rpond, “Let's save somethg for halftime. ” When Roseanne retorts that the fay isn’t bigoted bee they’ve “already me to terms wh the fact that you were gay” her dghter quickly rponds “I’m not gay! The duo dated, but didn't go any further than 's bee, as Gilbert revealed on "The Talk" Thursday morng, was durg her datg days wh Galecki when she first disvered she was gay.

SARA GILBERT ON BEG GAY: 'I STILL FEEL REALLY SRED'

Melissa Gilbert to Sara Gilbert: I Always 'Kda Knew' You Were Gay.

SARA GILBERT REVEALS SHE FIRST REALIZED SHE WAS GAY WHILE DATG FORMER 'ROSEANNE' -STAR JOHNNY GALECKI

Never one to mce words, The Talk -host Sharon Osbourne me right out and asked gut Melissa Gilbert when she knew her sister Sara Gilbert was gay. And she looked and me and she said, ‘I’m not gay. “Years later she lled me and we were havg a nversatn about somethg and she said, ‘You know, what if I jt said that I’m gay, ’ and I went, ‘And?

Sara Gilbert realized she was gay while filmg. She realized she was gay when she was a teenager...

They got married, she helped Roseanne and Jackie open the Lanford Lunchbox loose meat der, and then she divorced Arnie when she me out as a lbian, one of the few openly gay characters on Amerin televisn the '90s.

MELISSA GILBERT TO SARA GILBERT: I ALWAYS ‘KDA KNEW’ YOU WERE GAY

The former "Roseanne" star talked about datg her -star on the show, Johnny Galecki, when she started to realize she was gay. The Seventi saw many women's rights, gay rights, and environmental movements. Secret week on CBS' "The Talk" day after Julie Chen dropped the shockg news that she unrwent plastic surgery to enlarge her "Asian ey" due to workplace racism, -host Sara Gilbert dished on somethg she's been bottlg up for some 38-year-old actrs revealed on air that she first realized she was gay while datg her former "Roseanne" -star Johnny Galecki.

MELISSA GILBERT'S SISTERLY BOND MEANT SHE ALWAYS 'KDA KNEW' SARA WAS GAY

"Once she realized how her rponse to their relatnship was offendg, Galecki she explaed that she cid to be hont wh a part of 'The Talk's' secret week, Sara Gilbert opened up about realizg she was gay.

Never one to mce words, “The Talk” -host Sharon Osbourne me right out and asked gut Melissa Gilbert when she knew her sister Sara Gilbert was gay. And she looked, at me and she said, ‘I’m not gay.

SARA GILBERT KNEW SHE WAS GAY AFTER MAKG OUT WH JOHNNY GALECKI

Melissa ntued as she mentned that was years later before the “Roseanne” actrs me to terms wh beg gay. Melissa reunted:“Years later she lled me, and we were havg a nversatn about somethg, and she said, ‘You know, what if I jt said that I’m gay, ’ and I went, ‘And? The TV host add that although she still liv fear about beg gay, she is happy to be her te self.

SARA GILBERT'S SECRET: GAY WHILE KISSG JOHNNY GALECKI

REALIZING HER SEXUALITYGenerally, people thought Sara was straight until she me out as gay. "And I thought he was super cute and had a total csh on him and we started datg and he would e over and we would make out and then I would start to get prsed, " she felt Johnny started "takg personally" until she told him she was gay. "Dog The Talk has helped her overe her fear of beg public about beg gay, but she reveals that part of her is still aaid there will be repercsns.

Gilbert opened up about their relatnship, and s role her g to terms wh beg gay, durg an emotnal episo of The Talk on Thursday, Sept. Melissa Gilbert once asked her then-teenage sister, Sara Gilbert, if she was gay.

In the end, however, Sara shut down her olr sister's speech by sayg she wasn't gay.

SARA GILBERT: I REALIZED I WAS GAY WHILE DATG JOHNNY GALECKI

| Source: Getty ImagMelissa admted that after their talk, Sara sudnly opened up about years later:" 'You know, what if I jt said that I'm gay? "Sara and Lda have jot legal ctody of their six-year-old and are foced on their son's safety and SARA KNEW SHE WAS GAYBut perhaps Sara did not fully know her sexualy at that time.

Sara prevly revealed that she disvered she was gay while datg Johnny Galecki, her -star on "The Big Bang Theory. "Johnny remaed supportive throughout as Sara was sred of the Hollywood backlash she would face if she me out as gay. In an emotnal statement that aired on the show, Gilbert, who won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstandg Entertament Talk Show as the producer and creator of the show 2016 (via Gay Star News) said that after "gog back and forth" about the cisn for a while, she had cid to leave the show.

JOHNNY GALECKI MA SARA GILBERT REALIZE SHE WAS GAY

Sara Gilbert Reveals How She Knew She Was Gay. Sara Gilbert has had her ups and downs wh g out public, but her secret reveal on The Talk was about how she knew that she was gay for the first time. As if havg to tell Johnny that she was gay wasn’t ighteng enough, later life, Sara was also aaid to e out publicly for fear that she uldn’t work as an actrs anymore.

SARA GILBERT REALIZED SHE WAS GAY WHILE DATG JOHNNY GALECKI: WATCH HER TELL THE EMOTNAL STORY

WATCH: Sara Gilbert Reveals When She Knew She Was Gay.