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The 50 Most Powerful Coming Outs of 2012
http://www.towleroad.com/2012/12/201...at_pco=cfd-1.0
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Musician and producer Frank Ocean has remained purposively mum about his sexuality, preferring to let his sensational debut solo, channel ORANGE, do the talking.
"People should pay attention to that in the letter: I didn’t need to label it for it to have impact. Because people realize everything that I say is so relatable, because when you’re talking about romantic love, both sides in all scenarios feel the same ****," he told GQ in November, four months after coming out in an open letter.
Some have criticized the Grammy-nominated music maker for his reticence to adopt labels, but Ocean's quiet pride matches the tectonic though understated shift he produced in the hip-hop music community, a genre where homophobic often thrives. Though there were some haters, aural idols from Snoop Dogg to Beyonce to Dr. Dre celebrated Ocean's honesty, and fans did too.
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Conservatives blew a gasket when it was revealed that Focus Features's stop-motion movie ParaNorman features a gay character named Mitch, a jock.
"It’s a time-honored technique of the gay community to hide the fact that a character is gay until the audience has developed a real affinity for him/her, then catch the audience off-guard by divulging that the character is gay," wrote William Bigelow at conservative site Breitbart. Nancy French at the National Review warned parents to avoid the family flick.
Writer/director Chris Butler ignored the backlash and later told The Advocate "it was important to us" to feature an out character. "We were telling a story that was fundamentally about intolerance. We believed that it was important to have the strength of our convictions," he said.
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Big Bang Theory actor Jim Parsons' coming out was a non-event, but in the best way possible. It came up casually during an interview with the New York Times, when Parsons was talking about his role in the AIDS drama The Normal Heart.
"The Normal Heart resonated with him on a few levels: Mr. Parsons is gay and in a 10-year relationship, and working with an ensemble again onstage was like nourishment," Patrick Healy wrote.
Again, undeniable proof that gay actors no longer have to worry about endangering a hot career by talking about their homosexuality. Conclusion: we truly live in a post-Ellen world, and it's wonderful.
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Rumored to be one of the boys in the band since his 2007 debut album, Life in Cartoon Motion, singer Mika finally stepped out of the closet in August, right after the release of his third album, The Origin of Love.
"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," he told Instinct magazine.
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DC Comics said early on they planned on including a gay character in their relaunched titles, but few suspected they would do so by tweaking original Green Lantern Alan Scott's origin story to include same-sex love. Sadly, Scott doesn't get to enjoy that love: right before he proposes to his boyfriend, their train derails and he is killed.
It's this tragedy that transforms Scott into the Green Lantern, turning him into a vengeful man many readers hardly recognize.
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There's a dearth of transgender people in popular culture, which is why Cloud Atlas and Matrix co-director Lana Wachowski's candid approach to her own transition was such a monumental moment in LGBT progress.
In October, after delivering a rousing speech about her experience at HRC's gala, Wachowski spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about her life leading up "this moment" of transition. "I wasn’t talking so much about myself," she said. "I was thinking about someone who was like me when I was young, feeling that I was fulfilling the example that I was looking for when I was young."
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