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Contents:
- ANNE HECHE SAYS HER OPENLY GAY RELATNSHIP WH ELLEN DEGENER COST HER MILLNS
- CELEBRI WHO HAVE LEFT A GAY LIFTYLE
ANNE HECHE SAYS HER OPENLY GAY RELATNSHIP WH ELLEN DEGENER COST HER MILLNS
Heche wrote that she was unaware DeGener was about to bee the first person to play an openly gay lead on work televisn.
DeGener and Heche attend the VH1 Honors together whout cint jt a few days after DeGener appeared on the ver of Time next to the headle “Yep, I’m Gay, ” but when Heche’s agents and publicy team disvered she tend to brg DeGener to the premiere of “Volno, ” they tried to dissua her. Durg her Oprah terview, DeGener phed back at a homophobic gut, tellg him, “It’s who I am. ” A few mut after DeGener argued that she was born that way, Heche told Oprah, “I was not gay before I met her.
CELEBRI WHO HAVE LEFT A GAY LIFTYLE
) “They need a gay hero, and Anne left that gay hero, ” says Wier, the former Advote edor.
In a memoir Anne Heche worked on over the past year, the late actor shared ndid thoughts on her relatnship wh Ellen DeGener the late 1990s, when they were among Hollywood’s first openly gay upl.
She died om halatn jury and burns after her fiery r crash and the ath was led an accint by the her lifetime, Heche said that Hollywood effectively blacklisted her bee of her relatnship wh DeGener, who around the same time ma televisn history by havg her character the s Ellen e out as gay. “Gay didn’t feel right, and neher did straight. And later that night, recently elimated Dancg Wh The Stars nttant Anne Heche remd what a sry place Hollywood was to be openly gay jt 20 years ago, rellg the giant h to her reer and personal digni she suffered when she began publicly datg Ellen DeGener 1997.