Has jodie foster always been gay
Wow, that happened: Jodie Foster. Should we call it a coming out? As Foster accepted the Cecil B. DeMille award, she segued into an analytical, elliptical, revealing speech during which she nervously said, "I already did my coming out, about a thousand years ago, advocate in the Stone Age. In those very quaint days when a fragile young girl would uncover up to trusted friends and family and co-workers and then gradually and proudly to everyone who knew her – to everyone she actually met."
She also managed to blast celebrity culture — "You guys might be surprised, but I am not Honey Boo Boo Child." — and, perhaps, LGBT activists who've sought such a statement from her for years. (When Foster was the favorite to win Best Actress for Silence of the Lambs in 1992, there was a persistent rumor that she would be "outed" as she spoke from the podium.)
Foster already came out publicly in 2007; at a Hollywood Writer breakfast, she thanked "my beautiful Cydney," her longtime girlfriend, Cydney Bernard. They've since broken up; Foster's lead in Sunday evening was "I am ... single." She also called her, "My heroic co-parent, my ex-partner in love" among her thank-yous.
That 2007 reference t
Yes,ifshe'd done it 20 years ago, 10 years ago, even five years ago, it would own had a much greater impact.
And yes, she was a nervous mess, her speech often incoherent and oblique -- never quite saying, "Yep, I'm gay" -- and at times defensive and angry.
But Jodie Foster did announce her "coming out" last bedtime at the Golden Globes and thanked her "ex-partner-in-love," her "righteous soul sister in life," her "confessor," Cydney Bernard. It was another win for busting down the closet door among general figures. It was also another example of the novel way that celebrities are coming out, embarrassed in 2013 to have ever been in the closet and claiming that they've always been out (even if that sounds pretty ludicrous, as it does in this case). And that's a testament to the coming-out message that activists have made for years.
Jodie Foster's sexual orientation has been discussed since the '80s, when her face was plastered on "Absolutely Queer" posters pasted by activists all over the streets of major cities. I discussed the rumors in my column in OutWeek magazine at the day, when queer activists charged that Foster's 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs was homophob
SoJodieFoster finally admitted that she's gay (though she never actually said the word) at the Golden Globes, and of course her worst nightmare -- a bazillion pieces like this one, dissecting her confidential life and proselytizing about her bizarre speech -- is coming true. Adv, too f***ing bad, Jodie! There wouldn't be any pieces written about it now if you'd just been brave enough to come out a drawn-out time ago, like the rest of us.
I mean, is it 1996? Jodie's defensive speech, in which she seemed to blame Honey Boo Boo and reality TV for supposedly creating a climate that forced her out of the closet, harkened back to a period when it was a big deal to proclaim your sexual orientation. Hello, it's 2013! People are getting "gay married" and homos can be out in the military and stuff! But she wouldn't know that, because she's been so deeply entrenched in the closet that she's like Encino Man. (That reference is as dated as Jodie's thinking about this topic.)
Why am I so angry? Because I'm roughly the similar age as Jodie, and yet I had the courage to come out exactly 20 years ago. This was before Glee and Modern Family and Will & Grace -- and even Ellen DeGeneres' historical and
Did Jodie Foster Come Out at the Golden Globes?
By J. Bryan Lowder
Photo by Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
When Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony reached its celebration of Jodie Foster, the recipient of this year’s Cecile B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement, the montage of clips from Contact and Nell was predictable. What was not predictable was Foster’s acceptance speech, at once charming, forthright, swerving, a little unhinged and strangely elegant. In it, Foster thanked all the usual colleagues up front, but then she quickly moved into a much more personal register in which, through making a joke about her new status as a single lady, she kind of, sort of, maybe a short-lived bit came out of the closet. Annoyingly, the internet quickly went bananas trying to decide if Foster’s statement was militant enough to count, and so I was pleased when she went on to eloquently explain just why her romantic being should be none of our business.
Of course, as anyone who’s been accompanying Foster’s career knows, she’s been essentially unguarded about her lesbianism for some time—at least, as Buzzfeed points out, since acknowled
LGBT Activists Cringe and Praise Jodie Foster Coming Out
Jan. 14, 2013— -- Advocates praised Jodie Foster's coming out on the televised stage of the Golden Globe Awards last night, but some said she had done little over the years to set an example for others who are LGBT and struggling.
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"It was cryptic and defensive and we started thinking it was a joke," said Diane Anderson-Minshall, executive editor of The Advocate. "She sounded a petty passive-aggressive to a lot of LBGT activists. This lady who obviously has been afraid to come out in the public sphere has been out in her secret life for decades."
"By our stand, you are not out until you are publicly out," she said. "Even though she danced around being a queer woman , at least it's finally done."
FULL TRANSCRIPT: Jodie Foster's Golden Globes Speech
Some said her long-awaited coming out may own underscored the generation gap in the LGBT world.
Foster, who just turned 50, touched on her career, family and her sexuality while accepting the Cecille B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement.
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