I don’t see why Jodie gets credit for being out for making one small ambiguous thank you to a tiny gathering. Anderson thanked Julio Cesar in his best selling book years ago, which is arguably more public and the thank you was worded noticeably more intimate than the other thank yous (no more ambiguous than Jodie’s thank you). And he didn’t have anywhere near the same sort of ties or obligations to his boyfriend when he did that Jodie has to a girlfriend of 14 years who’s raising kids with her, but he still was the first to give an acknowledgement.

if he had come out about his sexuality and hadn’t speak about his brother’s suicide should everybody and their dog be screaming about the necessity of him to come out about his feelings on that particular issue?
or would everybody think that that was a private thing?

who should decide what is public and what is private? is there a law about that? why should the sexuality specifically be public? why should anything be public if the person himself don’t want it? why the moral is always (the conservative or the progressive) on discussion?

out-in-in-out!! do you people only think about that??

and yes, i’m gay, but never felt the need to shout it.
before i perceive i was gay i knew already that i was a human being and i want people to perceive me as that and as part of them and not as some kind of labeled darwinian sub-species fighting in some kind of evolution by natural selection

but then i remember that, even living in a south europe catholic country, we have much more respect about person’s lives and their sexuality.
maybe that’s a catholic thing (and i’m an agnostic): you did it, you live with it.

I understand the hypocrisy of his writing a memoir and simultaneously sealing off this part of his life, but I also understand the privacy aspect that comes with his profession. He’s often traveling through parts of the country and parts of the world that do not accept homosexuality in their cultures, and many do not even tolerate it. For him it’s almost essential to keep his sexuality to himself.

btw, I don’t think he’s with Cesar.

And so is Anderson Cooper — who was wildly out everywhere until he became star and decided that he ‘didn’t want to talk about ” his “private life”

Except of course for his brother’s suicide. Apparently that’s not private, but Julio Ceasar IS.

Jodie came out (finally!) about a month ago.

but you’re wrong on one point, bloggers: this jerk has no obligation to be even-handed, as he is not a journalist. (Strictly speaking, Cooper isn’t *exactly* one either, since he hosts a news talk show, but close enough, since he purports to report the news.)

and you must admit, although everyone at CNN knows AC360 is gay 24/7/365 (and everyone in the world knows about Jodie Foster), OUT shouldn’t be OUT-ing until their subjects are confirmed and willing.

From LaBarbera:
“(PC language lesson 101: they can use words like “homos” and “queers”; we can’t.)”

Hah!