Jodie Foster Come Out

[hongi]

I could care less for her sexual orientation. I always loved her for her accent.

[Darth Wong]

I could care less for her sexual orientation. I always loved her for her accent.

Her accent? She always sounds like she's wearing braces.

[ray245]

If you look at Ian McKellan, everybody really does like his work, so almost nobody cares about the fact that he's gay.

The sad thing is...due to him announcing Gay...he never won a Oscar.

And shouldn't Jodie Foster be a Bi-sexual then? Given that she has two sons...

[Lord of the Abyss]

And shouldn't Jodie Foster be a Bi-sexual then? Given that she has two sons...

A woman doesn't need to be attracted to a man to have sex with him; if she wanted kids, she could have just put up with it as long as necessary. Or just gotten artificial insemination.

[The Spartan]

To be honest I was kind of ignoring this thread. "Oh she's gay? Wow, 18 different kinds of 'So What?'" Then I stopped for a moment to remember what kind of world we live in. Sadly, the responses in the thread and my own, formerly forgotten experiences confirmed it. (I'm not gay but I've come across plenty of anti-gay sentiment in my adult life)

I was a toddler 25 years ago. How badly widespread was homophobia then?

As was I. But you don't have to go back 25 years to get widespread, even deadly homophobia.

Remember Matthew Shepherd? He was beaten to death in 1998; not ten years ago.

When I was going for my first degree, it was at a university in a small town about an hour outside of Fort Worth; I worked as a janitor in the student center. Every so often I noticed that an office would have a rainbow on it. Not aware of the connection I asked one of my co-workers about it. It was a university worker who a homosexual could go to talk to without fear of reprisal, outing, what-have-you. Why would they be afraid of that? Because being outed could have serious consequences in that place. It was quite an eye opener.

So was the guy at the grocery store openly wearing a KKK emblem, but that's another story...

[DavidEC]

Compare and contrast Jodie Foster's performance in Silence of the Lambs and Julianne Moore's performance in Hannibal. Clarice Starling turns from shy, vulnerable yet brave and intelligent into a renta-clone cold, distant, take-no-shit woman-excelling-in-man's-world character, or at least that's how I perceived Moore's performance for most of the film. I remember it improving during the last quarter. Foster has a place in my heart for that performance and its superiority's versus the taller Moore's, being attractive even without the most stunning of looks, though I admit stuff like Contact is a bit schmaltzy and too affected.

I never thought about her sexuality but props to her nonetheless.

[RIPP_n_WIPE]

Really, I would have never guessed she was a lesbian, seriously I'm not being sarcastic.

You're young. Gaydar doesn't come in until later in life.

I had such a crush on her when I was a kid. Anyway, some of us have pretty weak gaydar.

Unlike most people, I don't have a gaydar, but a gayger counter. Instead of definitively detecting homosexuality, it instead detects the ammount of homosexual radiation coming from a specific person. It can't tell you whether someone is gay or straight, but instead how gay they are.

[FSTargetDrone]

And shouldn't Jodie Foster be a Bi-sexual then? Given that she has two sons...

A woman doesn't need to be attracted to a man to have sex with him; if she wanted kids, she could have just put up with it as long as necessary. Or just gotten artificial insemination.

Has Foster explicitly said she is gay? She talked about her partner, but in the OP:

Jodie Foster has publicly confirmed she is a lesbian. The Hollywood star paid tribute to "my beautiful Cydney" as she accepted an award from entertainment magazine the Hollywood Reporter at Los Angeles' Beverly Hills Hotel last week, the first time she has made reference to her relationship with film producer Cydney Bernard, her reported girlfriend of 15 years.

Has she actually said "I am gay" or "I'm a lesbian"? She may well be bisexual. One of my female friends identifies herself as bisexual, but she's been married (to a guy) for 3 years now and mostly dated men prior to that.

I've noticed that whenever a celebrity announces his or her sexuality, it's always "I'm gay." How many times has a celebrity said he or she is "bisexual"? It is certainly possible that all of those people really are gay, but I find it interesting that "bisexual" is hardly ever uttered.

[FSTargetDrone]

Addendum (this article is about Angelina Jolie, but I guess I wasn't imagining things):

In a world with so few bisexual celebrities actually willing to come out and almost no bisexual film or television characters, Jolie's willingness to embrace bisexuality on and off-screen has made her the de facto poster girl for bisexual women.

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Jolie's openness on this topic is further amplified by the fact that there is a general absence of bisexual characters in film and television. Although the number of lesbian characters in mainstream movies and television has increased, bisexual women are still largely left out of the mix or made out to be murderess villains, as in Diabolique, Basic Instinct, or Poison Ivy.

The few mainstream films that have featured bisexual women, such as Chasing Amy or Kissing Jessica Stein have refused to name it as bisexuality, instead portraying the women as trying to choose between being straight or lesbian. As if there was no other alternative.

Even films written and directed by lesbians are not much better, for they rarely include bisexual characters.

In Jolie, bisexual women suddenly see themselves reflected in a positive way, and the mix of relief, admiration, and desire creates a powerful response. It's easier to identify with someone like Angelina Jolie than someone like Sharon Stone's character in Basic Instinct, so in the absence of positive bisexual film and television characters, Jolie has in effect become a "character," and even a litmus test of sorts: hosting a benefit in February 2002, newly out lesbian Rosie O'Donnell jokes, "They're saying I'm not gay enough. They say I lied because I said I love Tom Cruise. I do love Tom Cruise. What do I have to do, have sex with Angelina Jolie on TV?"

[The Yosemite Bear]

I thought you had to be Marelene Dietrich, or Truman Capote to be safe being openly gay in american society.

[The Yosemite Bear]

Mind you, I don't care, and part of my brain still remembers her films from 30 years ago...

and don't piss her off she might put something that tastes like almonds in your tea. Just ask that child molester that Martin Sheen played.

[Schuyler Colfax]

Really, I would have never guessed she was a lesbian, seriously I'm not being sarcastic.

You're young. Gaydar doesn't come in until later in life.

I had such a crush on her when I was a kid. Anyway, some of us have pretty weak gaydar.

Everyone else seems to think I'm gay.

[The Yosemite Bear]

no the part that scares me is that Hinkley was obsessed with her performance in TAXI DRIVER!!!

that's like wanking to Nat. Portman in Leon/The Professional

ewwww

[CaptainChewbacca]

Really, I would have never guessed she was a lesbian, seriously I'm not being sarcastic.

You're young. Gaydar doesn't come in until later in life.

I had such a crush on her when I was a kid. Anyway, some of us have pretty weak gaydar.

I have a crush on her from time to time, but only within 48 hours of watching Maverick.

[Aaron]

Everyone else seems to think I'm gay.

Are your classmates beating the shit out of you, like used to happen when I was in grade school and high school? If their just ribbing you then I wouldn't worry about it.

[Tsyroc]

I have a crush on her from time to time, but only within 48 hours of watching Maverick.

I like her a lot in that movie too.

That character would probably rob me blind though.