National Coming Out Day: Hollywood’s Openly Gay Stars
Oct. 11 2011, Published 1:00 p.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
Today is National Coming Out Day, and so to mark the occasion, Breaking Celebrity News takes a look at some of Hollywood’s most out and proud celebrities.
Talk show host Rosie O'Donnell said that before she publicly came out, her talk show audience was the only group of people in her life that didn’t know she was a lesbian.
Fashion guru Carson Kressley said he had a "soft coming out" to his parents, who didn’t know he was gay until he landed a high-profile TV show that said as much.
"You don't really say, 'Mom and dad, I'm gay’ -- You say, ‘I have a new show called Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, check it out.’"
Sex & The City star Cynthia Nixon said of publicly confirming she’s a lesbian: “I was like, ‘Really, we can just confirm?’ So that’s just what we did. It was so fantastic.”
How I Met Your Mother Star Neil Patrick Harris, who came out publicly in 2006, said he wanted to quash the fires of media outlets that craved beating him to it. “The last thing you want to do is talk about your private life based on scandal,” he said. “I'm not a very scandalous person.”
GLAAD Calls For The NHL To Take Action Over Wayne Simmonds Anti-Gay Slur
Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie said in 2007: "I have had lesbian experiences in the past. But I started having sex quite late on -- after I was 18. I was raised a good Catholic girl. I won't say how many men I have slept with, although it's not many,