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Contents:

• READ THE 'YEP, I'M GAY' ELLEN DEGENER INTERVIEW FROM 1997
• YEP, I’M GAY, AND I’M A CEO—IT DON’T STOP ME FROM RUNNG A GREAT BS
• A HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS THROUGH TIME COVERS
• TIME COVERS THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• ‘YEP, I’M GAY’: 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF ELLEN DEGENER G OUT
• GAY PRI
• YEP, I'M GAY': HAPPY 20TH OUT ANNIVERSARY, ELLEN DEGENER
• `YEP, I’M GAY’: HAPPY 20TH OUT ANNIVERSARY, ELLEN DEGENER

READ THE 'YEP, I'M GAY' ELLEN DEGENER INTERVIEW FROM 1997

It was on the April 14, 1997, ver of TIME magaze that Ellen DeGener, then the star of the s Ellen, nfirmed somethg she’d been buildg up to for s: “Yep, ” as the ver put , “I’m gay. She would be playg the first gay lead character on Amerin work televisn. Penney, ironilly, as that pany would later hire DeGener for an ad mpaign that would turn draw s own ntroversy — and the natn bated whether the show would “legimize” a facet of life that was still margalized, or if merely proved that homosexualy was already accepted by enough of the populatn that such a plot twist was possible.

TIME: So, for the rerd, are you yourself gay? ” I never wanted to be the spokperson for the gay muny. TIME: Is beg gay somethg you stggled wh?

My first gay experience was lerally someone else’s ia–I was eaked out even by the thought of . There’s been a lot of attentn the media recently about the lack of publicly gay bs lears. G., “Where Are the Gay Chief Executiv?

YEP, I’M GAY, AND I’M A CEO—IT DON’T STOP ME FROM RUNNG A GREAT BS

” and “Among Gay C. S, the Prsure to Conform” — is that pani and their boards rema one of the last bastns of opposn to gay equaly, and that gay CEOs fear reprisal om shareholrs, therefore remag extremely discreet or closeted. For as long as I have been bs and nng pani, I’ve been an out gay man.

I often meet other gay people bs…as well as women and people of lor who also rema unrreprented senr rol…who are extraordarily gifted, yet have not had the same opportuni.

A HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS THROUGH TIME COVERS

Unfortunately, the public dialog around gay civil rights is still fairly cendiary; mere visibily at a gay event n elic a strong reactn. The issu we face n be effectively elimated through the greater visibily of high-performg publicly gay executiv, the open support of boards and shareholrs, and a balanced dialog on the subject om the media.

Prr to that, Robert was Chief Executive Officer of Amerin Eagle Outfters, and has been regnized both for his learship acplishments and unique posn as an out, gay man leadg a public pany. While beg gay was accepted mastream culture, for those the public eye, g out was still seen as risky. TIME’s ver story shed light on her cisn, revealg how her character wouldn’t be immediately fortable yet wh her sexualy, ntrast to other loud-and-proud gay characters of the era.

TIME COVERS THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

The first qutn om TIME’s Michael Krantz: “So, for the rerd, are you yourself gay? One n endlsly bate the qutn of whether televisn fluenc society or reflects : Do Ellen Man’s g out what is still our masst medium legimize homosexualy, or do the sponsorship of a bottom-le bs like ABC merely reflect s acceptance by a signifint portn of the populatn?

Next The New Gay Stggle (Oct. Yep, I'm GayExclive: Ellen DeGener explas why she's g out. I didn't like that, so I ed the word gay more often.

TIME Covers the Gay Rights Movement. Over the last five s, the six ver stori chronicled both the ton and the setbacks for homosexual men and women. Prev3 of 7nextView AllEllen: “Yep, I’m Gay”April 14, 1997TV star Ellen DeGener me out exclively to TIME 16 years ago: “I hate that term ‘ the closet.

‘YEP, I’M GAY’: 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF ELLEN DEGENER G OUT

Next “The War Over Gays”. A man sets himself on fire ont of a bank Greece, Afghanistan maternal mortaly, gay pri and protts Brazil, nu Israeli's the Dead Sea, the Che Tradnal Gam for Ethnic Natnali, and an extraordary Rose bloom. Hunger Gam actrs Amandla Stenberg me out as bisexual 2016, and as of today, she's nfirmed her homosexualy prt an terview wh Wonrland.

GAY PRI

"So happy to say the words Yep, I'm Gay official prt. We talk about gay sobbg, first enunters wh lbian masturbatn, queer ins, Toni Morrison, disillnment as a cril step, the art I've been workg on, and the films that I have g out this year.

As the gay-rights movement fed ahead the U.

YEP, I'M GAY': HAPPY 20TH OUT ANNIVERSARY, ELLEN DEGENER

Through the 1970s, there were still many qutns Amerins’ mds about homosexualy.

TIME’s ver story, “How Gay Is Gay? ” — published jt six months after the assassatn of Harvey Milk, the San Francis cy supervisor who helped enact sweepg gay-rights reforms — foced on gay populatns across the U.

The mal are also far more visible than the femal performg one of the most fascatg rol of the gay rights movement: fluencg straight culture. Male homosexuals have long been particularly active the world of the arts, where they often n work openly wh no fear of losg their livelihood if they have the talent; Novelist Tman Capote and Playwright Tennsee Williams are two notable exampl. But the new fluence of homosexuals is somethg que different: their drs, tast and speech are beg adopted by many straights who would be stunned if they knew the origs of the latt fashns or fads.

`YEP, I’M GAY’: HAPPY 20TH OUT ANNIVERSARY, ELLEN DEGENER

I don’t know if that’s bee I’m gay and I jt didn’t really intify wh men and women beg so different, but I didn’t nscly thk, I’m not dog female material.

No one knew that I was gay necsarily. But their stuff was very homophobic, and slammed women every kd of way. I was rryg this fear around that if people found out that I was gay, I would lose everythg.

There were statn managers who thought, No one’s gog to watch a gay woman daytime bee everyone at home is a hoewife wh kids.