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. "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.
JAM IVORY AND THE MAKG OF A HISTORIC GAY LOVE STORY
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. ''Mrice'' was the novel which Forster, himself a homosexual, brought all his quiet passn and his fens of md to the jtifitn of the gay life. It has meant aimg to prent as ank yet dignified a portrayal of homosexual love as has, perhaps, yet been seen a mastream English-languague was Jam Ivory, the directg half of the partnership, who first had the ia of brgg the novel to the screen.