Come Out Of The Closet! Two Out Entertainers Share A Birthday

Gay entertainers who stay in the closet are missing out on a chance to be a catalyst for change in the lives of young gay people across this great country, especially when we can more or less figure out that they homos.

Too many children today are living in an environment that indoctrinates them to consider homosexuality as sinful, deplorable, or even fictional. Millions of children are being convinced that they feel different because they simply want the attention. Young people deserve homosexual role models. But too many celebs remain afraid to come out. Coming out as gay can still potentially ruin a career, so many don't take the risk. The bigger your star the harder you fall. But the bigger you are, the bigger the impact your coming out might have.

I feel that sitting on a secret that could help gay youth come to terms with who they are, mean closeted show biz figures are cheating the world of positive examples of what it means to be homosexual. They need to get brave.

I remain a fan of the working class comedy- Rosanne.I consider it to be one of the 10 best sit-coms of all time. From 1988-1997, this very funny & groundbreaking show often featured gay story lines. In an episode titled: Don’t Ask/ Don’t Tell, proving that she's cool, Roseanne Conner (Roseanne Barr) goes out dancing at a gay bar wittily named "Lips" with her sister Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) & friend Nancy (Sandra Bernhard) & Nancy's girlfriend Sharon (Mariel Hemingway). Roseanne is having fun until Sharon kisses her, causing Roseanne anxiety. The next day, after discussing the kiss with Jackie & getting into an argument with Nancy, Roseanne realizes that she may not be as cool as she thinks she is. In the 1995 episode- December Bride, long-time character Leon (Martin Mull) marries his boyfriend Scott (Fred Willard). Roseanne's husband Dan (John Goodman) is distressed at seeing the men kiss & Roseanne chastises him for making a fuss about 2 people of the same sex kissing. Sharon (Hemingway, again) then sits down behind Roseanne & says hello. Her cameo serves as a callback to the earlier episode.

Sara Gilbert decided at a very young age that she wanted to be an actress after her older sister, Melissa Gilbert (one time SAG President), got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. At the age of 13 she nabbed the role of Darlene Conner, the sarcastic middle child, on Roseanne. Gilbert remained a cast member during the show's entire 9 year run. Her contribution was considered so important to Roseanne that the show's producers juggled storylines & taping schedules to allow her to attend Yale University while remaining part of the cast, shooting remote segments of Darlene at a soundstage in NYC. At Yale, she majored in photography, & graduated with honors in 1997.

Since 2007 she has appeared in series episodes of The Big Bang Theory as a scientist friend, with benefits, of the character played by adorkable-Johnny Galecki, who also portrayed her longtime boyfriend & husband David on Roseanne.

Gilbert is a co-host & executive producer of The Talk. Along with Gilbert, Julie Chen, Sharon Osbourne, Sheryl Underwood & Aisha Tyler co-hosts.

Gilbert finally came out publicly as a lesbian in 2010. She had been in a decade long relationship with TV producer Allison Adler. They have 2 children. They separated this past summer. Gilbert is now in a relationship with songwriter Linda Perry. Gilbert is a long time vegetarian & a supporter of PETA, Meals on Wheels, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, & AIDS Project Los Angeles.

Adam Lambert cleared up any speculation about his sexuality in 2009 in an interview for Rolling Stone Magazine. Lambert: "I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay, I've been living in LA for 8 years as a gay man. I embrace it, it’s just another part of me, but I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader". Lambert, was sort of closeted on American Idol: "It would have been so sensationalized that it would overshadow what I was there to do, which was sing.”

As an openly gay man, Lambert has been an advocate for full equality. He was presented, by gay singer Sam Sparro, the Equality Idol award at Equality California annual Equality Awards for being a role model for the LGBT community. Lambert was honored at a PFLAG National LA event. He received a GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Music Artist in 2010. Lambert produced a YouTube clip for the "It Gets Better" campaign, encouraging fans to have pride in themselves & not allow bullies to win.

Lambert has given proceeds from his song- Aftermath to support The Trevor Project, the national organization providing crisis intervention & suicide prevention services to LGBT youth.

I have never owned any Lambert tunes, but I appreciate his big lungs & big hair, his huge, controlled vocal range & bombastic personality. I’m simply not a fan of American Idol style singing. This makes me feel very old.

Gilbert turns 37 years old today & Lambert, currently in a relationship with Finnish TV personality Sauli Koskinen, is 30 years old today. I'm sorry, but writing- "Finnish TV personality", just cracked me up.

Considering Jodie Foster On Her Birthday

I like her well enough. I certainly appreciate her talent & dedication to the craft of acting. I don’t love her enough to shoot a President, although it was a sad day for me when John Hinckley missed. I 1st noticed her as Becky Thatcher in a crappy musical version of Huckleberry Finn (produced by Reader’s Digest!) in 1973. I thought- “wow, that little girl sure is butch, just like I want my girls!”  But, I turned around & she really held my attention & interest in the wonderful Scorsese flick- Alice Doesn’t Live Her Anymore.



Alicia Christian Foster began acting in commercials when she was 3 years old, & her first important role came in 1976 in Taxi Driver as a preteen prostitute. She received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Also that same year she starred in the cult film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. She finally won that Oscar for Best Actress in 1989 for playing a rape survivor in The Accused. In 1991, Foster received a 2nd Oscar & international acclaim for The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling. She received her 4th Academy Award nomination for playing a hermit in Nell (1994) a film that I truly disliked, although I do a 1st rate imitation of her work in this film. Other popular films: Maverick(1994), Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Brave One (2007) & WTF?-Nim's Island (2008), all of which I found dreadful or at least peculiar.


Foster's films have spanned a wide variety of genres, from family films to horror. She has also won 3 Bafta Awards, 2 Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild Award, & has received 2 Emmy nominations.


Deeply in the closet, Her recent "mid-life crisis" was probably the subject of much speculation at soft ball practices, therapy sessions & over wholewheat muffins in bakeries around Hollywood by the entire lesbian community of L.A.


Foster had dramatically ditched 55 year old Cydney Bernard, her partner of more than 15 years - for Cynthia Mort, 33, a highly intelligent big deal writer, who has made a name for herself by giving viewers some of the most explicit sex talk on TV. She made her way in the business as a writer on Roseanne, where she worked for 4 years in the late 1990s, & was later hired as the supervising producer. She wrote Tell Me You Love Me, the show for HBO about couples in therapy, which garnered an enormous amount of publicity for its frank depiction of sex. Mort served as the executive producer of Will & Grace, & is currently writing a bio-pic about the singer Nina Simone, to star Mary J Blige.

Cynthia Mort

The relationship with Foster started when they met 3 years ago on the set of the The Brave One, which Mort had written the screenplay. Now they are going to set up a home together.


The former couple have already agreed to raise their 2 boys together. Bernard & Foster are still living together while Jodie makes plans to move out. A sad end for a romance which for a decade & a half, was as happy as it was private. Foster: "Thank you to beautiful Cydney, who stuck with me through all the rotten & the bliss".


Their partnership seemed to have been the very model of a modern lesbian couples. Foster had the babies, which were conceived with a sperm donor, her friend, openly gay film director- Randy Stone.They raised them in the comfort of West Hollywood, where they & their dogs went for walks in the local park & lived as a "regular" family, given the circumstances & Foster’s fame.


About the breakup, Foster: "Look, it's terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk, I look at it & I go: 'I think I'll just kick it.'"


More peculiar than Foster’s inability to fully come out of the closet is her recent defence of crazy, abusive, homophobic, anti-semetic Mel Gibson. Foster & Gibson have a history, they appeared together in Maverick & co-star in the yet to be released comedy The Beaver, directed by Foster.

A production still from The Beaver.

When her good friend Gibson is given to sexual abuse, threats, & racial slurs, & with a history of drunk driving & accusing the Jews of being "responsible for all the wars in the world," maybe she could as quiet about him as she is about her private life. Foster has had a lifetime of "no comment", why stop now?


Foster: "When you love a friend, you don't abandon them when they are struggling. Of course, Mel is an undeniably gifted actor & director, & 'The Beaver' is one of his most powerful & moving performances. But more importantly, he is & has been a true & loyal friend. I hope I can help him get through this dark moment. Mel is honest, loyal, kind, but alcoholism has been a lifelong struggle for him & his family. I just wish I had been there, that I had been able to say, 'Don't do it, don't take that drink. He is incredibly loved by everyone that's ever come into contact with him or works with him. He is truly the most loved man in the film business, so, hopefully that stands for something."


The thing that really gets to me about Foster, is that besides publicly thanking "my beautiful Cydney who sticks with me through all the rotten & the bliss" she has never acknowledged her personal life or relationships. For somebody of her power, influence, & fame being silent is cowardly.  She thinks Mel Gibson is "incredibly loved." Why are her gay fans, who fell in love with her in Bugsy Malone, not saying that she is no longer our role model, & hold that applause?