Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster won an award and in her acceptance speech she thanked her long term partner Cydney. 

And all these people have commented. 

“What’s the fuss about? I don't give a squat. Who cares? Another story about a famous lesbian. Ho hum. The interesting bit would be? Just be thankful it is not you or your children. Boring. There are more important issues. Homosexuals are sick.”

It's shocking that people treat gays any differently, 

Go girls you are normal people, don't forget, why should it matter?

It's kind of like even the ones who are for us are kind of clueless about it.

Good on you Jodie for being brave. Bravery is always impressive.

You know, good on her for coming out. It's still about raising the profile. It's all about marketing, getting the gay brand out there. Truth over comes ignorance. Contact makes us normal. We always were normal, but the red necks, bigots, homophobes and god bothers, etc, have to find that out for themselves. So, in that sense, good on her.

After all, it was the worst kept secret.

But why would she want to, for want of a better expression, come out? Remember, she's had stalkers and crazies after her. Some guy shot the president under some delusion about her. Why would she want to make her private life fodder for every fruit cake in the world?

All she did was to thank her partner, in an acceptance speech, for all of her support and its news all around the world.

One day, sometime in the future, maybe it won’t matter. Personally, I kind of like being in the periphery, in not being the "norm." But for the beige, cardy wearing, twin set, aching for the marriage ceremony and the house and the dogs in the suburbs, kind of gay, its important. Normal.

In forty years of gay rights/lives/openness, we haven't won “them” all over yet, so I don't think we'll be melting into the furniture in any of our life times, not completely. It will still matter for a long time yet.

We're still getting execute for our sins in some countries. We're still demonised by the Catholic church - while we suck off their priests. We're still accused of being a vocal minority group seeking special rights, if we ask for equality. 

I bet the majority of non-gays still think that we all wish we were straight, which is a subconscious way of categorising us as second class citizens. It's still viewed as somewhat of a handicap, a bit like diabetes. Today's teenager's slang for lame, or second rate, is gay.

Good for you, Jodie.