Ellen revealed that the shownners were "livid" when they found out about her plan to e out as gay.
Contents:
- THE REAL REASON ELLEN DEGENER DECID TO COME OUT AS GAY ON TV
- READ THE 'YEP, I'M GAY' ELLEN DEGENER INTERVIEW FROM 1997
- HOW ELLEN DEGENER HELPED CHANGE THE CONVERSATN ABOUT GAYS
- ELLEN DEGENER ON COMG OUT AS GAY: “I DIDN’T THK I WAS GOG TO COME OUT, PERD”
- ELLEN DEGENER IS THE MOST VISIBLE GAY OR LBIAN PUBLIC FIGURE AMERI
THE REAL REASON ELLEN DEGENER DECID TO COME OUT AS GAY ON TV
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When she featured two bt iends on her show -- one gay, the other straight -- who attend prom together. When she spoke out agast hate and advoted for tolerance after the murr of Matthew Shepard, an openly gay man who was btally killed Wyomg. Two s ago, she ma history by beg the first openly gay actrs to play an openly gay character on televisn -- sparkg a natnal nversatn by puttg LGBTQ issu ont and center.
READ THE 'YEP, I'M GAY' ELLEN DEGENER INTERVIEW FROM 1997
The April 14, 1997, issue of TIME featured a s-down wh the edian, who nfirmed that her s character was gay—and so was she. * ellen degeneres not gay *
Ellen revealed that the shownners were "livid" when they found out about her plan to e out as gay. " DeGener thought that there had been gay characters on TV before but there hadn't been a character who disvered their te sexual orientatn late life.
On “The Puppy Episo” Season 4, which aired on April 30, 1997, she ma history by g out as gay on TV.
HOW ELLEN DEGENER HELPED CHANGE THE CONVERSATN ABOUT GAYS
And I knew that there was a possibily that people would hate me for the simple fact that no matter how much they loved my edy or my show, but they might hate me if they knew I was gay.
ELLEN DEGENER ON COMG OUT AS GAY: “I DIDN’T THK I WAS GOG TO COME OUT, PERD”
She saw an easy transn for her character, Ellen Man, to realize that she was gay, too, “which was why her relatnships wh men weren’t workg out, ” she said. She also alleged that fellow LGBTQ celebs such as Elton John told her to “shut up already” about beg gay the aftermath.
ELLEN DEGENER IS THE MOST VISIBLE GAY OR LBIAN PUBLIC FIGURE AMERI
“They said: she’s a gay woman, and the women at home watchg daytime TV are straight hoewiv wh kids – what do she have mon wh them? 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.