Tag: career
Barry Manilow: Coming out earlier would have ‘killed my career’
He's happier now to be out
In a new interview, Barry Manilow said it’s ‘wonderful’ to be publicly out, because for years he believed he couldn’t be.
‘I went through many, many years when I couldn’t do that,’ he told the Daily Mirror of being able to talk openly about his husband, Garry Kief.
Manilow fell in love with Kief, who’s also his manager, in 1978 and the couple married in 2014. The legendary singer, however, did not come out publicly until...
Ellen Page: Being in the closet hurt my career more than coming out. Video:...
Ellen Page: "Being in the closet hurt my career more than coming out."
Hollywood actor Ellen Page has said staying in the closet hurt her career more than coming out as gay did.
She initially said she was unsure whether Hollywood’s treatment of LGBT actors was improving.
“It’s hard for me to know — I’m not in rooms where people are making decisions of who to send what to, and the truth is, I’m absolutely not focusing on it.
She went on to say:...
I married a man to prove my mom I was lesbian
I am Amanda, I am now 40 years old and I am finally happy. I met my wife Francesca at a conference, five years ago, after I had divorced my husband.
I knew since I was a kid that I liked girls. At early ages I was inviting my friends to my place and we would play „husband and wife.” I was the husband, imitating the life of grown-ups. To some point we would mime sexual interaction. I grew up...