Meredh Baxter: Y, I'm gay

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• MERITH BAXTER ADMS IT WAS MICHAEL J. FOX THAT MA HER GAY
• MEREDH BAXTER: Y, I'M GAY
• MEREDH BAXTER FROM "FAY TI": I'M GAY
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

MERITH BAXTER ADMS IT WAS MICHAEL J. FOX THAT MA HER GAY

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It's no secret that I'm gay, but has been to the greater world. Baxter has been datg women for the past seven years, and "the thought of beg gay never crossed my md, " she said. Meredh Baxter wh wife Nancy Locke | Photo: Getty ImagCOMING OUT AS GAYThe cisn to get married to her partner didn't e easy to the "Fay Ti" actrs, who spent years battlg her fears of g out as gay.

MEREDH BAXTER: Y, I'M GAY

Before Baxter, 62, first started datg women seven years ago, the thought of beg gay “had never crossed my md, ” she tells PEOPLE. A few choice qutns om the Advote, scroll down for "Today" quot:When did you realize you were gay?

Here's Baxter on whether or not others knew she was gay prr to g out:Did anyone ever say to you that they spected you might be gay before you yourself knew? "People say, 'You had to have known know you were gay. ' I realized, I was so un-self-examed, I uld have been a Republin, but no, I'm jt gay.

MEREDH BAXTER FROM "FAY TI": I'M GAY

"I said, 'I thk I'm gay, ' and my olst boy said, 'I knew, ' " the actrs said.

"Baxter Jos Clique of Later--Life LbiansHavg e out so publicly, Baxter said she se herself as a new advote for gay rights.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

"If anyone knows someone who's gay or lbian... March 2, 2011 — -- Meredh Baxter led a "secret life" as an emotnally abed wife for years before learng she was gay and enterg "the healthit relatnship I have ever had, " the star of the '80s show, "Fay Ti, " told Oprah Wey today while holdg the hand of her lbian, 63, also joed by her former televisn -star, Michael Gross, and her children, appeared on "Oprah" to discs her allegedly abive marriage and what led her to disver she was gay.

"At one pot, Wey asked Baxter's children if they knew their mother was gay.