Hollywood's Closet

I am so sick of celebrities flip-flopping about their sexual orientation. Yes, I agree they should not be forced out of the closet. I don't believe in the gossip columnists who throw open the closet doors and pull out anyone they see lurking underneath the skirts.
However I do believe that to promote freedom in this country, the world even, means the gay community standing strong together. There will be no progress in our struggle without some courage on the part of Americas gay public figures. Where is all of the courageousness people always boast they have?

How can you stand by quivering in the closet when your brothers and sisters are living a life of deprivation? The only way for homophobic fucks to realize the error of their ways is to show them that we are real people too. What will they say when they realize their favorite movie star is a fag? What will they think if they find out their favorite waitress at the diner is a muff-diver? Their receptionist at work is in a long term committed relationship with a woman? Their Doctor is in love with a man? Their sister is living an inauthentic life?

They only path to true acceptance is to make the people who are so prejudiced against us to see that we are everywhere and we are real. We are your mothers, fathers, brothers, cousins,sisters, co-workers, employers, policemen....etc.

What better way than to put yourself out there as a celebrated personality. Why let the fear of your ostracism take control of you living your own full life? Why would you do that? Do you want to look back at age 80 and feel uncontrollable sadness that you never were truly yourself? Because really if you are so afraid of not being able to work in a medium that will reject you for being gay, then why would you want to even be a part of something like that in the first place?!!???

So come out, come out where ever you are and stand strong with your brothers and sister and we will see what strength in numbers can do.