This week Jodie Foster admted she was a lbian after praisg her long-term partner Cydney Bernard. But was a gay film director the father to her two children?
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A GAY 'LOVE STORY'
Her normally tight-lipped iends have disclosed that Miss Foster ma a promise to her bt iend, gay film director Randy Stone before his ath om heart failure Febary, that she would go public about her relatnship wh Miss Bernard.
Stone, a gay rights activist, is said to have persuad her to dch her fears that admtg she is a lbian uld damage her reer. 5 ln a film, had reced a gay male iend to be the surrogate father.
JAM IVORY AND THE MAKG OF A HISTORIC GAY LOVE STORY
"Sourc close to Stone say that he had long tried to persua Miss Foster, who won Osrs for her rol as a rape victim The Acced and as FBI agent Clarice Starlg The Silence Of The Lambs, to go public and adm she is gay. They say she cid to e out after attendg a Christmas gala last week aid of the chary tablished by Stone to help gay teenagers who might be nsirg suici.
But last weekend, she appeared person at the event to pay a movg tribute to Stone, who was married to Barbra Streisand's sister, Roslyn Kd, before announcg his homosexualy.
Gay magaze Out, unr the headle "The Glass Closet: Why the stars won't e out and play". There was a bate both then and now as to whether the movie’s satiril analysis of ercive and toxic masculy entirely off, whether this was a film to be lghed wh or at – but this was a role which Sands shone, his was the betiful gay man Yv Cloquet David Cronenberg’s 1991 versn of Burroughs’s Naked Lunch – who is fact a hallucatory sect: Sands was well chosen for this humoroly bizarre creatn.