In honor of National Coming Out Day, we're admiring the famous stars who took that brave step.
Today, October 11, is National Coming Out Day. It's a day that should be celebrated by everyone: gay, straight, lesbian, transgender or bisexual. It's a celebration of people being honest with themselves and the people who care about them—a very honorable thing. The following 9 celebrities announced their sexual orientation the best way they knew how, and they all admit it was the best decision they've ever made. Hopefully, their experiences will inspire others today to come out from hiding. If they could do it, so can you.
Cracking the code of relationships as it pertains to you & yours by focusing on your needs and wants
Most of the relationship articles out there tend to be for heterosexual couples. I use part intuition and part knowledge on relationship dynamics to translate, adapt, and figure out what works best for you if you don't identify with or find yourself in traditional relationships. How and where you define yourself on the Kinsey spectrum scale of heterosexual to homosexual only matters when it masquerades the real you--and the complexity of human relationships. What really matters is understanding how and what to do to have long-lasting quality relationships.
"Dancing With The Stars" banned same-sex partner dances -- but included Chaz Bono in the cast.
It's time to break out those dancing shoes again! The TV world is all abuzz with the upcoming premiere of the celebrity dance competition on Sept. 19, and especially with the announcement of the Season 13 cast this past Monday, ABC and Dancing With The Stars made history by casting Chaz Bono, its first transgendered contestant.
A new J.Crew ad showing a mom painting her son's toenails pink has caused a stir. What do you think?
"Lucky for me, I ended up with a boy whose favorite color is pink. Toenail painting is way more fun in neon." That's the quote, accompanied by a photo of J.Crew's creative director, Jenna Lyons, applying pink polish to 5-year-old son Beckett's toenails, that's caused a firestorm of cultural controversy and had critics crying "transgendered child propaganda." We're pretty sure the minds behind the catalog ad thought the toenail painting was just a cute mother-son activity to highlight on their "Saturday with Jenna" page. Prominent conservatives thought otherwise.
A transgender man is suing his former employer after being fired based on his gender.
In a dog eat dog world, life can be pretty tough sometimes. It can be even tougher when someone doesn’t accept us for who we are, for our sexual orientation, etc. And such is for El’Jai Devoureau--a transgendered woman who is suing the company who recently fired him.
But leaves the breastfeeding to his wife, because why would he want to mess up his post-op?
Thomas Beatie, whom the world first met in 2008 as the pregnant man seated on Oprah Winfrey's couch, has given birth to his third child. And his wife Nancy couldn't be happier... happy in spite of the fact that she'll be the one up all night on nursing duty. You see, even though Nancy (who reps the traditional femme role in the relationship) is unable to carry a child due to a hysterectomy, she is able to breast feed through the help of lactation-inducing hormones. She does, after all, still have her breasts, something her husband had removed years ago during his gender reassignment surgery.
California courts recognize the former Chastity Bono's gender and name change.
It's official: Cher and Sonny Bono's daughter is a man, baby! In September, Chaz underwent "irreversible surgery" to change his "sex characteristics from female to male," and yesterday a judge granted his petition for a legal name and gender change. Now that Chaz is a man, he could legally marry longtime girlfriend Jennifer Elia.
Cher and Sonny's son files for legal change of name and gender.
Chaz Bono, the only child of gay icon Cher and the late Congressman Sonny Bono, has filed papers in California Superior Court to officially change his name and gender.
Sexual reassignment was the "best decision I ever made," Chaz Bono says.
Chaz Bono has always been very public about his ongoing transition from female to male, and continued to be courageously upfront—discussing how he made the decision, gender identity and public reaction—during an interview on "Good Morning America."
Sonny and Cher's kid says he has always known he’s a fellow.
Chastity Bono, the only child of entertainers Sonny and Cher, has begun taking steps to transition from female to male, a publicist revealed yesterday. He began living as a man in March, shortly after his 40th birthday, and is now known to his family and friends as Chaz.
With a bill in limbo, court orders Lithuania to pay for gender reassignment.
Note to lawmakers worldwide: If you hem and haw over the legality of sex change surgery, you may end up footing the bill.
Reuters reports that Lithuania has paid $63,140 (40,000 euros) for a partially transgendered man to have complete gender reassignment surgery abroad, per a court order. The man, born a woman in 1978, won a case against his home state in the European Court of Human Rights, for sitting on a bill to allow reassignment surgery that was presented in 2003. The court ordered the Lithuanian parliament to pay for the woman to have the procedure if it still had not voted on the bill by July 1, a deadline the Eastern European nation clearly missed.
