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It was TVs night to shine at the 76th Emmy Awards last night hosted by dad/son Schitt’s Creek stars Eugene and Dan Levy. While Shōgun had quite the night winning a record 18 Emmys, there were several LGBTQ highlights throughout the evening. Continue reading “LGBTQ Highlights From 76th Primetime Emmy Awards”
E! Online is reporting that Oscar winner Jodie Foster and her photographer girlfriend, Alexandra Hedison, got married this past weekend.
A spokesperson for Foster confirms the happy news.
The two started dating sometime last summer.
From E! Online:
Internet chatter about the two began in the summer when the two were photographed together at a technology seminar at Fox Studios in Los Angeles and out to dinner with friends a few days later.
Hedison, who dated Ellen DeGeneres for about three years before things ended in 2004, has had her photography shown in New York and Los Angeles. She also has several acting credits, including playing Dylan Moreland on Showtime’s hit lesbian drama series, The L Word, for three seasons.
In accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes last year, Foster thanked her ex Cydney Bernard, spoke of her need for privacy and also declared that she did her “coming out a thousands years ago, in the Stone Age.”
I have my own feelings about Jodie Foster’s “did she or didn’t she come out” speech during the recent Golden Globe Awards.
Coming out, I feel is a very private and personal matter. No one can dictate the time or terms on which someone addresses this very personal issue.
However, I will say, public figures who DO come out offer visibility and role models to younger LGBT folks. They prove that “it does get better.”
I still don’t know if Jodie Foster did or didn’t come out last Sunday. So, if I’m confused – how do you think young gays and lesbians feel?
Loud and proud or not – if you’re going to do something, do it.
Just my two cents.
After receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award for the many acclaimed films she has made over four decades, a clearly nervous Foster first toyed with the audience a little, dancing around the issue before affirming that, yes, she is a lesbian.
“I’m gonna put it out there, loud and proud, right?” she coyly said. “I’m gonna need your support on this. I am single… I already did my coming out about 1,000 years ago, back in the stone age.”
Well aware that people have been waiting for this moment for years, Foster explained that her delay wasn’t based in shame, but in the fact that she came of age when there was a larger premium on privacy.
She was not of the era when gay or lesbian stars held press conferences to discuss their private lives, she said. But, standing up on that stage, poised and proud, Foster finally publicly came out. And I couldn’t be more happy for her!
Note just some of the responses via Twitter:
(via Towleroad)