[blueerica]

I feel that she had the right to tell no one, private citizen, public personality, whatever. (Not to mention she has been famous since she was a toddler, unable to make these sorts of public/personal decisions for herself). I am so proud that she did, but it was her choice and these things have to be the choice of those involved and most of the people commenting on it simply weren't. The article mentioned that there had been calls on her to clarify her sexuality, which I could understand, but to the point that people would be outraged that she waited so long is just silly to me.

When I find out about people who "took so long to come out," I always try to take in mind that it was really only until very recently that in the medical field homosexuality was considered a mental health issue, a disease, a plague of sorts. There are still a great number of people living in circles that still believe that it is a sickness, and in some cases evil, so I can understand the great hesitancy that someone who has been in the public eye so long might give toward divulging such personal information.

If I were in the public, I'd guard my personal relationships, even though I am heterosexual. It's really no one else's business. The sooner we can get to that point as a society, the better off we'd be. But I'm not counting on it in my lifetime. We'll always have the homophobes and the sensationalists to make it a big frigging deal.