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She recently came out publicly as gay

"I am tired, of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I’m standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of all that pain."

came out publicly as gay in 2013

"I never hid the fact that I'm gay"

came out as bisexual in 2010

had long-term relationship with a woman

came out in 2013 when he tweeted about his engagement to his boyfriend.

came out publicly during an interview with the New York Times

"I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love."

came out as bisexual

"I've gone both ways. I do as I please."

confirms he is gay and in longterm relationship

"I don’t really talk about it but everybody knows,"

"For me, it is a choice," she says in a New York Times Magazine profile. "I understand that for many people it’s not, but for me it’s a choice, and you don’t get to define my gayness for me."

came out publicly as a lesbian in 1997, both in real life and on TV, on her sitcom "Ellen."

came out publicly as gay, thanking her longtime girlfriend

"When I really, truly came out was at the Golden Globes, when 'Arrested Development' was nominated," 2004 "That was the first time that we actually stepped out together as a couple, but for me, it was the first time that I'd stepped out as a gay woman, really."

came out as lesbian in 2009

"Anyone who's a friend of mine, anyone who knows and cares about me knows. It's no secret that I'm gay, but it has been to the greater world."

came out as bisexual in 1998

"I have a voice because of my work. I'm loud and I speak my mind,”

»In 1988, he publicly came out as a gay man during a BBC Radio 3 discussion about the Thatcher government's infamous ›Section 28‹ of the Local Government Act, making illegal the public ›promotion of homosexuality.‹«

"In the year 2005, I came out as gay," publicly "I realized I had to speak out about the issues."

came out as homosexual 20 years ago

came out as gay publicly in a cover story for People magazine 2006

Came out publicly in the People Magazine, after he was being insulted by Isaiah Washington.

"My friends on the set knew. We talked about it. Publicly it's not my thing to call up People magazine and be like, 'Hey, you want to know something about me?'...I could've just let it slide and not said anything, but it became important. It became important to make the statement."

her first public statement about her being gay was at the Golden Globe Awards in 2013.

"I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the Stone Age. In those very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends, and family, coworkers and then gradually, proudly, to everyone who knew her."

came out publicly as gay in 2010, but he thinks it wasn't soon enough.

"I was so young, it made me go back in the closet [with the media] because I was so overwhelmed at 26 or 27. I didn't want the responsibility, I didn't know how to handle the responsibility of speaking for the gay community."

officially came out in an interview with The Advocate in 1999

"It's never been something I kept a secret."

openly gay

"Ellen DeGeneres helped me come out"

was 17 the first time he came out to his family

came out on the "Chelsea Lately Show" in December 2009

came out in New York magazine in 2011

"In light of Jamey's [Rodemeyer] death -- it became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it -- is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality. Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay lesbian bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country."

confirmed that he is gay in an Entertainment Weekly interview in 2011

"This is my coming out ball. I’ve been dying to do this.”

Came out as Bisexual 2012

"If I had thought I was 100 percent gay, would it have been a different experience for me?"

openly gay, with no public coming out speech

“The more information the world has about who you are as an individual, the less possible it is for you to be able to disappear into a character.”

openly, and very proudly gay

"I came out to my family when I was 21 years old because I wanted them involved in my life."

came out publicly as gay in 2008

»one of Britain's few openly gay actors«

came out via Twitter last year

came out in »Out Magazine« via his inclusion in the Out 100 in 2007

came out as gay last year and revealed she has a long-term girlfriend

former openly Lesbian, »changed her mind about being gay, closed that door«

came out as a lesbian at age 17

came out in November 2008 "I wasn't in the closet but I was just living my life. Everybody who knows me personally, they know I'm gay"

she publicly came out as a lesbian in an emotional Facebook message

came out in an email to his friend and fellow journalist, Andrew Sullivan. "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud."

came out in an article on CNN where he mentioned his longtime partner

"If you let anybody know you was gay, you was in trouble; so when I came out I didn't care what nobody thought. A lot of people were scared to be with me."

publicly came out in 1974 in a New Musical Express interview. He told the music magazine,

"I am as gay as a daffodil, my dear!"

openly gay

openly gay

came out to CNN in 1998.

"This is as good of a time as any... I want to say that I have no problem with people knowing that I'm in a relationship with a man right now. I have not been in a relationship with a woman for almost 10 years."

officially came out in 2008

"I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man," 2010

In the 1970s he publicly admitting he is bisexual. He distanced himself from that in 1983 and expressed a different view in 2002

"I had no problem with people knowing I was bisexual. But I had no inclination to hold any banners or be a representative of any group of people. I knew what I wanted to be, which was a songwriter and a performer, and I felt that [bisexuality] became my headline over here for so long."

came out as bisexual in a 1993 issue of The Advocate

"I mean, I’m definitely gay in spirit and I probably could be bisexual…if I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle."

He has openly admitted to being bisexual and continually answers questions about it. He says that he has always been bisexual and "it’s a beautiful thing."

"For me it's normal and nothing to be ashamed about. I'm gay and I'm comfortable with that. I really don't know what the fuss is about."

»she caused more of a stir coming out as a vegetarian than as a lesbian.«

came out in 1993 during the Triangle ball

"Gee, I'm really excited to be here, and I'm really proud to have been a lesbian all my life."

"On June 19th 2006 I married my boyfriend of two years, Richard, in a Civil Partnership ceremony in London."

came out publicly in 2012

"I feel very proud to be a part of The New Normal"

came out in 2010 in People magazine

"Nothing in my life has been more magical than the moment I decided to come out."

officially came out as a lesbian in 2010

came out in his memoir in 2003

Openly gay

came out during an interview with lesbian website in 2009

"It's a part of being true to yourself. That's been a challenge for me personally."

openly gay

"I never officially came out, or did not come out, or had a discussion of my personal life or sexuality."

announced in 2012 that his first true love had been a man

came out publicly at 2010's Nashville Pride, announcing to a crowd of 18,000:

"I've never said this before, but I am a proud bisexual woman!"

openly bisexual

came out as bisexual in a public service announcement for the "Give a Damn" campaign

came out as bisexual in 2011

"Yeah, that's a big part of who I am, and it always has been for as long as I can remember. I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is," Wood told Marie Claire in 2011

"I have dated and have had sex with men and women and have to say that the relationships I have had with certain women have been much more fulfilling, sexually and emotionally, than those with certain men. I connect with an aura, with energy. And if the person with whom I connect happens to be a female, that's just the way it is. That's what makes my wheels turn,” Loken told Curve in 2006.

openly bisexual

"I have no question in my mind about being bisexual," she told Esquire in 2011.

her bisexuality was never a secret.

in 1997, she told Girlfriends magazine "I would probably have married Jenny Shimizu if I hadn't married my husband. I fell in love with her the first second I saw her."

originally came out in an interview in Contact Magazine in 2003

"Do I like women sexually? Yeah, I do. Totally. I have always considered myself bisexual..."

»has been open for quite some time about her bisexuality, initially coming out in 2010«

She was outed as bisexual to her family and the world by the Spin Magazine when she was 21 years old

»confirmed speculation surrounding her sexual identity in 2009 through an interview with The Advocate«

"I think women are beautiful, I’ve had a lot of fun with women, and I’m not ashamed of it."

"I'm extremely open with my sexuality. I can be in love with a woman, I can be in love with a man," Rose told Complex in 2009.

was openly bisexual

"There is something about being with a woman that is very satisfying. I don't care what people think about me being bi -- I do what feels good."

She was openly bisexual

in her autobiography she wrote about a number of lesbian affairs

»admitted he was gay (in 1976) and moved out of the family home — though he later returned —«

"If you ask me am I gay, I say yeah... Are these songs about my relationship with a man? I say yeah. And it’s only through my music that I’ve found the strength to come to terms with my sexuality beyond the context of just my lyrics. This is my real life." 2012

openly gay She has two children with her wife, Alice Dodd

openly lesbian

On Larry King Live, she described herself as a "hot gay chick".

openly gay an says that she was never really in the closet.

»She publicly came out as a professing lesbian in 1993.«

openly gay

describes herself as openly gay

came out as a lesbian in 2004

openly gay

came out in stages, first to her parents when she was 27 years old.

openly gay

"Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out."

»came out when he was eighteen and has shown that a gay actor can have a long term career in Hollywood.«

openly gay

Came out as Lesbian in People Magazine 2012

»because she is ›approaching 50‹ and wants to ›be open about who I am.‹«

came out as openly gay shortly after joining the cast of Queer as Folk

»never came out publicly during his lifetime, but he did authorize a biography..., which discussed his private life in great detail.«

Came out as gay, in an announcement that he married his longtime Partner

was secretly gay and came out as gay in his memoirs in 2005