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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In a 1991 interview he admitted some distaste for homosexuality. "They take it up the ass", he said, adding as he pointed at his own buttocks, "This is only for taking a shit. With this look, who's going to think I'm gay? I don't lend myself to that type of confusion. Do I look like a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them?"
but yet so appears to be bffs with jodi? i doubt she would be okay with this
Edited at 2013-01-14 08:25 am (UTC)
but he's a wife abuser and is consistently spouting hate. with people who are my friends, i am incredibly forgiving of mistakery. but i have limits and lines. i don't need hate in my life and unapologetic abuse is not ok in my book.
If he does those things away from her presence, then it's relatively easy to push the knowledge to one side, or to lessen its seriousness.
I applaud you for being so firm in what you will and will not tolerate... but she is not you... Nor am I. Everybody is different; some people are more forgiving, as I said.
It's illogical to steadfastly hold other people to your own standards... and yet, ONTD does this all of the time... It's bizarre. *shrugs*
For example:
"If he were my friend I would've got rid of his ass a long time ago... The guy's a prick!" (valid)
vs.
"Omg, she shouldn't still be friends with him! Side-eyeing her rn"
(invalid, since you don't know the details of her life that have led her to make this decision)
It's all about how people choose to comment; there's having an opinion, and then there's thinking you have the right to control people's lives because everyone should think the same way as you (not you personally, the general *you*)
Besides, he starred into that paean to mateship, Gallipoli.