Tag: closet

Age ain't nothing but a number. We all come out in our own time, right? For some people that’s in kindergarten but, for others, it can take a lot longer to feel comfortable in their own skin. Below, we spotlight 7 celebrities who waited until they were older to come out of the closet. George Takei The Star Trek star didn’t come out publicly until 2005, when he was 68. But since then, both he and husband Brad Altman have been outspoken...

"I told them the whole tragedy of my life." Roman Blank has two children, five grandchildren, one great-grandchild, a wife of 67 years, and one very big secret—he’s been in the closet for the past 90 years. Last year, at the age of 95, Blank revealed that he was gay for the first time, despite saying he knew about his sexual orientation since the age of five. “I just told them plain that I was born—and that I was all my life—gay,”...

Billy on the Street’s Billy Eichner took to Twitter this past weekend to express his belief that Vice President Mike Pence is a homosexual, as right-wing website Heat Street none-too-fondly reports: https://twitter.com/billyeichner/status/828378858638319616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Then there’s this equally unsubtle Tweet: https://twitter.com/billyeichner/status/824717034332188672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Definitely succinct stuff. By this point, Pence is probably used to being trolled on Twitter. He’s already been lampooned by the likes of Mike Hot-Pence: https://twitter.com/MikeHotPence/status/822675044723814400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw He was also compared (unfavorably) to adult film star Brad Patton in memes such as this: Right now, there’s an ongoing Reddit...

The question is simple: Gay people of Reddit: if you had the opportunity to wake up tomorrow 100% straight, would you want to? Why or why not? The answers, not so much… Some people said they would prefer to be straight because life, in general, would be easier: Probably. I haven’t entered a serious relationship and struggled a lot with my sexuality growing up in the Christian church. I really think I would. I don’t fit in with the gays. I come off as straight, so...

To celebrate National Coming Out Day, PinkNews takes a glance at some awesome ways to come out as LGBT… 1 Write a letter… 2 Bake a cake 3 Bake multiple cakes 4 OR Write a letter AND bake a cake!! 5 Get arty and make a coming out card 6 Get poignant and leave a note 7 Or maybe use place cards – who doesn’t love place cards (Love Actually anybody?!?)? 8 Print it on a T-shirt 9 On Facebook… 10 Or as a life event! 11 Do it on the...

The Imperium star says Hollywood still typecasts openly gay actors. Daniel Radcliffe has given his thoughts on why so few Hollywood actors have come out as gay – saying he thinks it’s “sad” that film bosses still typecast LGBT stars. Appearing on The Victoria Derbyshire Show earlier today, Radcliffe was asked by the host why he thought so few A-List actors have made the decision to come out. “I suppose because, then people just want to cast you as gay,” he said. “Rather...

A gaggle of LGBTQ paranormal investigators from Columbus, Ohio have joined together for Queer Ghost Hunters, a new reality web series with a simple mission: To locate gay ghosts and assist them in coming out in the afterlife. No, this is not a joke. This is totally, 100 percent serious. The show, we mean. The existence of gay ghosts, on the other hand, cannot be confirmed or denied. Equipped with rainbow flags and “lavender cams,” the investigators poke around old insane asylums, abandoned bathhouses, empty prisons, “well-appointed mansions,”...

I know it is a very personal decision to get out of the closet but the idea behind this entry is to encourage those who are doubtful, there is a whole world out there for gay people and you are missing a great part of it if you keep yourself in a small closet for the rest of your life. When you are into the closet you can't express yourself the way you are. You have to be acting all...

"Make a coming out and be yourselves," - said the famous actor of such well known films as "Lord of the Rings", "Hobbit" and "X-Men" who ardently supports the LGBT movement, took part in the Gay Pride and even claimed the whole world to be gay himself. visioonid.ee Sir Ian McKellen encourages all actors to make the mass coming out, because it is no longer considered as a career-killer. theboltonnews.co.uk 76-year-old British actor came out during his speech on the radio in 1988. Later, he...

These people are famous all over the world. Some of them are actors or actresses, some are singers and some are even political figures. And they turned out to be brave enough to claim about their sexual orientation. They don't choose who to fall in love! They just feel and love who they want. If these people did it, so why do you still stay in the closet? Come on! It's time to come out of the closet!