Ellen DeGener Used Her Fal Show to Remd People She Wasn’t Allowed to Say Gay | Them

Contents:

• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• THE REAL REASON ELLEN DEGENER DECID TO COME OUT AS GAY ON TV
• ELLEN DEGENER USED HER FAL SHOW TO REMD PEOPLE SHE WASN’T ALLOWED TO SAY GAY
• NOW THAT ELLT PAGE IS A STRAIGHT MAN, WILL 'HE' HAVE TO APOLOGIZE FOR PORTRAYG A GAY WOMAN?
• ANNE HECHE SAYS HER OPENLY GAY RELATNSHIP WH ELLEN DEGENER COST HER MILLNS
• AUTHOR WHO ONCE EMBRACED HOMOSEXUALY EXPLAS WHY HE NO LONGER CALLS HIMSELF 'GAY' (INTERVIEW)

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

8, 2003, she would drop every afternoon on our mothers and grandmothers — a lbian a sweater vt at the suburban ffee klatch table — and offer a daily remr that queers were fundamentally “normal, ” no threat worth wagg an electn mpaign would shimmy through the door Rosie O’Donnell had opened the year before, g out the home stretch of "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" to prott a Florida law banng gay upl om adoptg. Consir Kev Hart's appearance January 2019, shortly after past homophobic tweets sunk his chance to host that year's Osrs. The segment performed the ruals of celebry damage ntrol, wh DeGener, "as a gay person, " acceptg Hart's apology and mandg his restatement as the ceremony's the nversatn might be more strikg for what says about DeGener than what says about Hart: Slippg wh breathtakg, almost ic alacry between performance and personaly, the talk-show host's fense of her gut hged not on his cency, his regret, even their iendship, but on...

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THE REAL REASON ELLEN DEGENER DECID TO COME OUT AS GAY ON TV

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ELLEN DEGENER USED HER FAL SHOW TO REMD PEOPLE SHE WASN’T ALLOWED TO SAY GAY

We now have a straight man playg a gay woman on TV and yet people cry out for reprentatn and non-bias, ' one Twter er said. The year before that episo aired, 1996, Olympian Greg Louganis’ admissn that he had HIV at the time of his divg board cint was met wh media sensatnalism and gay panic; the year after, 1998, Matthew Shepard died a hospal Colorado after beg work TV’s natnal dience, Ellen had the opportuny to change how people thought about and related to gay people.

NOW THAT ELLT PAGE IS A STRAIGHT MAN, WILL 'HE' HAVE TO APOLOGIZE FOR PORTRAYG A GAY WOMAN?

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ANNE HECHE SAYS HER OPENLY GAY RELATNSHIP WH ELLEN DEGENER COST HER MILLNS

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AUTHOR WHO ONCE EMBRACED HOMOSEXUALY EXPLAS WHY HE NO LONGER CALLS HIMSELF 'GAY' (INTERVIEW)

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