Come out, come out, wherever you are!

I was watching Perez Hilton defend himself on The View, and it lead to a bit o a heated debate between me and the bf.
BF is under the impression that gays in Hollywood should not be outed. I believe that gays in Hollywood who deny their sexuality should be outed, especially when such denials border on homophobia.

In the U.S. gay rights suck! Luckily for me they do not here in the currently wet U.K. All of the gay celebrities who come out go on to have a very lucrative careers. Will Young was the first Pop Idol winner, and came out immediately after he won, and went out to be very (and still is) successful.

It is easier over here I guess, although it is funny how the Brits are still considered to be stuffy and sexually repressed by Americans (have you seen our television, read our magazines??) when we are so much more liberal when it comes to equality.

However, you get the gay stories that last YEARS about celebrities which are always denied by themselves or worse yet, publicists. What is the worst that will happen should they come out? They may not get work, but they will raise the issue of gay rights into the papers.
Neil Patrick Harris did just that, and everyone thinks the better of him for it. His career to date has not suffered at all, he just beat the rumor mills to the punch.
Well done.
Best way to deal with it I say.
Ellen DeGeneres has had a career resurgence since her coming out. “Finding Nemo” then her own show, crowned off with a very successful gig hosting the Oscars. Must have felt good having an openly gay host in a room full of closet cases.

Tom Cruise has denied these rumors for ages, going as far as suing magazines who print he is a big ole poof, for slander.
Slander!!!
Nice Tom. Great way to make all the young gay boys and girls who are struggling with their sexuality feel REALLY great about themselves is to label them as something slanderous.
What a big ole closted, self hating c*nt.
Harsh I know, but I really cannot stand the man and his religion.
Apparently you cannot enter the religion of Scientology if you are gay. REALLY!! It seems as though your two biggest supporters are just that. Tom Cruise has spent his entire career suing men who say they have slept together. Perhaps if you had called afterwards Tom, they wouldn’t feel hurt enough to go to the papers.
I mean to quote the lovely Rose McGowan in “Scream”, “You can only hear that Richard Gere gerbil story so many times before you believe it is true”.
Well Tom, the amount of different stories that pop up about you and your activities do not leave a lot of room for doubt. Sue me.

And then we have Mr. Travolta.
Is it ok to dress up in a fat suit to play a female character that has been famously played by not one, but two famous gay men in your religion?
We all know L. Ron Hubbard (the scientologists God) was a homophobe and a bit of a racist, what would he think of you kissing your supposed lover (pictured) and running about on screen in drag? I am sure at the very least you would be in for a spanking…maybe from Tom himself. At least John, you do not run around waving a big ole 'I'm not Gay!' flag like Tom does. I will give you that.

All this celebrity bashing/outing is fun I guess, but it is sad that even though I am out and happy and content, we live in a world where many people feel they cannot be.
Elton John, Ian McKellen, Melissa Etheridge, Rupert Everett, Graham Norton, Ellen Degeneres, Neil Patrick Harris, Tracey Chapman, Allan Cumming, Chad Allen, Sandra Bernhard, Stephen Fry, Cherry Jones, Nathan Lane, Little Richard, Johnny Mathis, Rosie O’Donnell, Michael Stipe, Lily Tomlin, Gus Van Sant, Gore Vidal, Rufus Wainwright, and John Waters has all come out and survived and become icons to the rest of us. For them I am thankful and hold the utmost respect. For those who are gay, and publicly denounce it, thanks for furthering hatred and fear you bunch of assholes.