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.
Singer Erykah Badu says her latest video concept was 'grossly misunderstood.'
Jesse James must love Erykah Badu right about now, and not just because she's a tattooed woman who likes to take her clothes off. But it's because of Erykah's recent stunt in the buff that she's currently hogging the media spotlight, giving Jesse a small respite. In the video for her new single, "Window Seat," Erykah walks through downtown Dallas, shedding her clothes as she goes, and then falls to the ground when a shot rings out, "killing" her right next to the spot where John F. Kennedy was shot in 1963.
Family Ties' Meredith Baxter's announcement that's she's a lesbian highlights a growing trend.
There's been a recent flurry of female celebrities (and real-life women) coming out as gay later in life. Whether lifelong lesbians we never knew about or women who just happened find love with another woman, these ladies are writing their own happy endings to the stories of their lives.
Wanda Sykes, who brought the house down at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, didn't show a bit of the exhaustion she must have been feeling. The Curb Your Enthusiasm star's wife of seven months, Alexandra, gave birth to fraternal twins on April 27, and we have heard that two-week-old babies can be a lot of work, so we now have even more respect for the splendid performance she turned in at the dinner.
So, so inspiring: last week, tens of thousands of people across the country came out in support of same-sex marriage after California voters passed Prop 8, which nullified previously legal unions.
From New York City to Minneapolis, D.C. to San Fransisco, gay marriage supporters turned out in huge crowds to protest the bigotry which occurred in California on Nov. 4.
