“Beg Gay Was Never The Harst Part”: Rosie O’Donnell On Her Show, Her Past, And Her Passn For Barbra Streisand

Contents:

• ROSIE O’DONNELL DCRIB PUBLICLY COMG OUT AS A GAY WOMAN ON TV
• ROSIE O'DONNELL RELLS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER 9/11 (EXCLIVE)
• ROSIE GAY
• “BEG GAY WAS NEVER THE HARST PART”: ROSIE O’DONNELL ON HER SHOW, HER PAST, AND HER PASSN FOR BARBRA STREISAND
• FOUND 8 RULTS FOR ROSIE GAY
• ROSIE PIERRI: I HAD 'BREAKDOWN' TELLG MOM I WAS GAY
• ROSIE O'DONNELL: BEG A GAY MOM
• ROSIE O’DONNELL ON PHG TO PLAY HER CHARACTER GAY ‘A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN,’ DEPARTURE OF ‘AMERIN GIGOLO’ SHOWNNER
• ROSIE O'DONNELL TOLD NBC EXECS SHE WAS GAY AHEAD OF DAYTIME TALK SHOW: 'I DIDN'T WANT THEM TO FD THIS OUT AS A SURPRISE'
• ROSIE O’DONNELL SAYS WHNEY HOTON WAS “CONFLICTED” BY “GAY PART OF HER LIFE”

ROSIE O’DONNELL DCRIB PUBLICLY COMG OUT AS A GAY WOMAN ON TV

Rosie O’Donnell was the public eye for a long time as a closeted gay woman.

“I was surprised that people thought I was not gay.

ROSIE O'DONNELL RELLS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER 9/11 (EXCLIVE)

And I’m like, ‘I’m gay. Listen, 9/11 happened, I’m gay.

ROSIE GAY

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"I went to a edy club and I was dog stand-up and I'm like, "I'm gay.

Listen, 9/11 happened, I'm gay. I'm tellg you all, I'm gay.

“BEG GAY WAS NEVER THE HARST PART”: ROSIE O’DONNELL ON HER SHOW, HER PAST, AND HER PASSN FOR BARBRA STREISAND

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Earlier this week openly gay edian Rosie O’Donnell spoke out about the late pop star Whney Hoton’s stggle wh her sexualy…. “Whney was troubled by, I thk, the gay part of her life and didn’t want exposed.

FOUND 8 RULTS FOR ROSIE GAY

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ROSIE PIERRI: I HAD 'BREAKDOWN' TELLG MOM I WAS GAY

The relatnship eventually end bee of homophobic prsure.

ROSIE O'DONNELL: BEG A GAY MOM

World War II has long been viewed by historians as an important moment lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) history Ameri.

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You uld also be arrted if you were a bar and dancg or even touchg someone of the same sex and police emed a homosexual enunter. "People really were livg fear of losg their jobs, their hog— the se of someone ary service, of beg dishonorably discharged—and even threats of physil vlence, " Grav the abundance of women mak the lbian tal the easit to obta, the LGBT project is also attemptg to tell the stori of bisexual, transgenr and gay civilians servg on the homeont.

ROSIE O’DONNELL ON PHG TO PLAY HER CHARACTER GAY ‘A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN,’ DEPARTURE OF ‘AMERIN GIGOLO’ SHOWNNER

Selwyn Jon disvered the danger of beg openly gay early on.

The war brought Jon, a farm boy om Texas, to Tampa, Florida, where he served as a urt reporter on a se that volved the dishonorable discharge of a gay man.

At "92 and a half, " he has experienced the swg of gay history, rangg om the activist years of San Francis polician Harvey Milk the 1970s to the dark years of the AIDs epimic the 1980s (a bedroom photo memorat a lover who died of plitns om AIDS). It was then that he heard the word homosexual for the first time.

ROSIE O'DONNELL TOLD NBC EXECS SHE WAS GAY AHEAD OF DAYTIME TALK SHOW: 'I DIDN'T WANT THEM TO FD THIS OUT AS A SURPRISE'

"He was his early 20s then, and although he would soon be sent overseas to fight, he was disverg the possibili, and dangers, of beg a gay man Ameri. "I still didn't know many gay men, and I wanted to fd out om him what was all about. "The man took Jon to a bar equented by both gay and straight men.

ROSIE O’DONNELL SAYS WHNEY HOTON WAS “CONFLICTED” BY “GAY PART OF HER LIFE”

It was the first time Jon had been to such a place, and the first time he had socialized publicly wh an openly gay Women's Land Army was also a place to disver gay life. For Dickemann, as for Hickok and Jon, the perd served as an troductn to gay yet was not until late life that Jon and Hickok were able to be pletely open about their sexualy, and Dickemann was ready to make the transn to livg as a man. When talkg recently about a gay hairdrser she spent time wh while workg as a Rosie, she tugged a strand of her short whe hair and said, "I uld e him now.

Is Rosey Grier Gay?

“Whney was troubled by, I thk, the gay part of her life and didn’t want exposed, ” O’Donnell said of the late mic in’s mored same-sex orientatn.