10:34 pm - 01/13/2013
Jodie Foster Comes Out On Live Television
Finally, after years of avoiding any official confirmation, Jodie Foster just came out at the Golden Globe Awards.
Receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award for the many, many great films she has made over the past four decades, an obviously nervous Foster first toyed with the audience a little, dancing around the issue before affirming that, yes, she is a lesbian. (She had previously thanked a female partner in a 2007 speech, but it was not an official, direct coming out.)
Well aware that people have been waiting for this moment for years, Foster explained that her delay wasn't based in shame, but in the fact that she came of age when there was a larger premium on privacy.
She was not of the era when gay or lesbian stars held press conferences to discuss their private lives, she said. But, standing up on that stage, poised and proud, Foster finally did the deed. And we couldn't be more happy for her!
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Receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award for the many, many great films she has made over the past four decades, an obviously nervous Foster first toyed with the audience a little, dancing around the issue before affirming that, yes, she is a lesbian. (She had previously thanked a female partner in a 2007 speech, but it was not an official, direct coming out.)
Well aware that people have been waiting for this moment for years, Foster explained that her delay wasn't based in shame, but in the fact that she came of age when there was a larger premium on privacy.
She was not of the era when gay or lesbian stars held press conferences to discuss their private lives, she said. But, standing up on that stage, poised and proud, Foster finally did the deed. And we couldn't be more happy for her!
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"It was like when Spock felt emotion and he got all weird.
Maybe bc i read Wilde, Forster and Renault. Then again it wasn't exactly subtle bc she did use the words coming out, gave a shout out to her female partner and cam focused on Lynch
Edited at 2013-01-14 04:10 am (UTC)
It seemed pretty clear to me that she was affirming her sexuality and her family, while maintaining her desire for privacy, saying she won't be acting as much (if at all) and sending love to her ailing mama.
Tho I was nhf the Mel Gibson love. I'm sure he's been wonderful to her and RDJ but he's just so vile.
It was a very respectful way of acknowledging her need for privacy is bigger than her need for PR games. And the part about her mother really got me.
i was only confused as to what they bleeped out
Good for her though!
we are all hypocrites
But that would entail hating a bunch of other actors as well
I'm free and clear though, so I'll shade away, tyvm.
If you didn't realize she was coming out the closet, you were drunker than she was.
In the closet doesn't always mean no1 knows it
It could mean, "I'm ready to admit it."