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• JODIE FOSTER REVEALS SHE'S GAY, SUGGTS SHE'S RETIRG
• JODIE FOSTER GAY: ACTRS COM OUT AT GOLN GLOB 2013
• WAS JODIE FOSTER’S ‘COMG OUT’ A STEP BACKWARD FOR GAYS AND LBIANS?
• RUPERT EVERETT SAYS BEG GAY STIFLED HIS FILM REER, BUT DO DIENC RE?

JODIE FOSTER REVEALS SHE'S GAY, SUGGTS SHE'S RETIRG

While the actrs never uttered the words "I'm gay, " her speech, she did ht at this reveal.

), we live an era which a newly out JoJo Siwa is forced to fend herself agast homophobic trolls. "Foster joked that celebri are now expected to reveal they're gay "wh a prs nference, a agrance and a prime-time realy show.

JODIE FOSTER GAY: ACTRS COM OUT AT GOLN GLOB 2013

First Osr-wng actrs publicly me out as gay a speech at last year's Goln Globe and her former partner Cydney Bernard, wh whom she had two sons, end their 20-year relatnship source, APImage ptn, The pair started datg last year, reports sayThe celebry news broadster reported that Ms Foster and Ms Hedison began datg last Hedison prevly dated US edian and chat-show host Ellen are no tails about the weddg, but California - where Ms Foster liv - is among 17 US stat, along wh the District of Columbia, where gay marriage is Foster, 51, began her actg reer televisn mercials at the age of three, but found ternatnal fame 1976 for her Osr-nomated performance as teenage prostute Iris Taxi has sce appeared more than 40 movi, wng bt actrs Osrs for her role as a rape victim the 1988 film The Acced and as the FBI agent Clarice Starlg 1991's The Silence of The actrs also branched out to directg, wh projects cludg Ltle Man Tate on this story. Jodie had the babi, which were nceived wh the help of a sperm donor who is generally regnised to have been her iend Randy Stone, a gay film director.

Rumours spread that when the time was right the uple might even formalise their romance wh a gay weddg, as and when such a ceremony beme legal - which did California this month. Gay (Lbian). Jodie Foster not only nfirmed she's gay while acceptg the Cecil B.

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WAS JODIE FOSTER’S ‘COMG OUT’ A STEP BACKWARD FOR GAYS AND LBIANS?

Did her word choice cloak a clash between her preference for privacy and a need to publilly unburn herself om the mors about her sexualy (gay, bi-, a-) that have floated around her for most of her adult life? The Gay Stigma: A major reason film and televisn actors publicly ny, hi, or are evasive about their homosexualy is that g out n and often do hurt their reers. Straight actors play gay rol -- Rob Williams did The Birdge or Harry Haml did Makg Love, and Naomi Watts "Mullholland Drive.

When a known Gay actor appears a straight romantic role, Gay stereotyp may wreck the dience’s spensn of disbelief. At the most basic level, there are people who are flat out homophobic — homosexualy rais their levels of anxiety which n create psychologil panic even threaten their nfince their own heterosexualy. Then there are those who are not homophobic the clil sense but are rather homo-hostile, morally or religly opposed to homosexualy.

Their reactn to a known Gay actor playg straight might clu walkg out the middle of the film or stg there mutterg and cluckg,. An add problem: Rearch has shown that people thk of homosexualy solely terms of sexualy. Announcement: Gays and Lbians have liv beyond sex.

RUPERT EVERETT SAYS BEG GAY STIFLED HIS FILM REER, BUT DO DIENC RE?

Then there’s another possibily seen this anecdote: Tony- wng actor Nathan Lane was asked durg an terview if he was Gay. When Lane later told his mother he was Gay, she replied, "I'd rather you were ad, ” to which he replied, "I knew you'd unrstand.

Get our ee weekly email for all the latt cematic news om our film cric Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cematic email for eeIt's hardly a secret Hollywood that Jodie Foster is gay. Gay advot have enuraged her to be more open still and e all the way out of the closet; more homophobic wrers have taken a more sneerg tone, g the mi-episo as an exce to pour more of their favoure vective on the n of iquy that they believe Hollywood to be. But her experience certaly highlights the more general perils of beg gay Hollywood somethg that most actors don't even dare talk about.

"All my iends who are gay keep secret.

At least, s lims are beg tted as never before, the wake of two highly unual public claratns of homosexualy by reasonably proment actors. One thg, though, seems sure and has been te of Foster for years: that while 's nsired OK for unambiguoly straight performers to play gay parts (thk of Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger Brokeback Mounta or, gog much further back, Tom Hanks Philalphia), 's almost unheard of for gay or spected gay actors to do the same thg.

Likewise, the biggt fear gay actors have is that, once their sexualy be public knowledge, they won't get the straight parts any more eher; certaly not the romantic lead-type rol, bee the studs will be aaid they will no longer nvce dienc that they n possibly be attracted to their -stars of the oppose is neanrthal thkg, of urse (don't actors make a livg pretendg to be somethg they are not all the time? He persuad Sir Ian McKellen (himself a high-profile gay rights activist) to star 'X-Men' by tellg him that the film, a tale of mutant superhero, reflected what was like to be DeGenerNow the host of her own talk show, edian and actor Ellen DeGener me out very publicly 1997, when she announced she was a lbian on the 'Oprah Wey Show'. DeGener is currently a long-term relatnship wh actor Portia GeffenThe openly gay Geffen ma his name as a mic mogul the 1970s as manager of Crosby, Stills and Nash and The Eagl.