In a recent interview, Rosie O’Donnell reveals that when she originally came out as gay, a magazine hid the truth to protect her.
Ten years before the comedian originally came out, Cosmopolitan Magazine didn’t publish her revelation during an interview, she recently told Marlo Thomas.
The former The View host sat down with Thomas to discuss how differently life has changed for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) families.
In the new interview, she said that the reporter in 1992 asked if she was gay and when she responded “yes,” the fact was removed.
“At that time, nobody printed it,” she said. “I remember Helen Gurley Brown [Editor-in-Chief] took it out of an interview that [a reporter] had done with me in like, 1992. He said, ‘Are you gay?’ and I said, ‘Yes.’ She took it out.”
O’Donnell continued, “She was protecting me because at that time it would’ve been a huge issue, right? So, I think it’s changed a lot. I think it’s much more common and people are much more used to it.”
Gay Star News reports that when her son Parker was adopted in 1995, only close friends and family knew she was gay. However, if the magazine had published the initial coming out, it would have been publically known 10 years before she revealed in a New York City comedy club that she was a lesbian in 2002.
Just recently Juno star, Ellen Page, also came out as a lesbian.
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