Sara Gilbert Officially Comes Out
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07/29/2010- by Natasia Langfelder
In news that you probably already knew, Sara Gilbert of Roseanne fame is officially out! This reminds me of the time Sean Hayes came out…it’s like yeah, girl! Of course you’re gay!
Gilbert dropped the L bomb today at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Los Angeles. Gilbert has been mum on her partner and their two children and publicists for the star has asked press not to bring them up at events. However, now Gilbert is executive producing and co-hosting The Talk a rip off of The View and Gilbert is drumming up interest in the show. Hence the “official” coming out.
Julie Chen, Leah Remini, Holly Robinson Peete, Sharon Osbourne, and Marissa Jaret Winokur will also host The Talk. It doesn’t sound like a horrible line-up except for Leah Remini. Remini is an outspoken scientologist and scientology isn’t big into the gay. In fact, Scientology hates the gay. Which is why it’s surprising that Gilbert and Osbourne are attached to the same project as her. But maybe Remini will serve as the groups intolerant harpie, the way the Elizabeth Hasslebeck is on The View.
When Gilbert was asked at the press event if she thought it’d be easier to be out in a talk show forum rather than as a character on a scripted show, Gilbert said,
“This is a whole new world for me…I’m not an expert on this, or I don’t analyze these things. I’m just sort of living my life. I plan to put my heart and soul into this show, and I plan to continue acting, and I don’t think it will be a problem…I don’t ever really think of things as out or in…I just think I am who I am, and when topics come up that are appropriate, I’ll talk about them and share when it seems right.” [Source]
Gilbert then addressed the fact that last week CBS sent out the press release about The Talk and mentioned the husbands of the other hosts, but only mentioned Gilbert’s children. Gilbert explained why Allison Adler, her longtime partner and a television producer was omitted. Gilbert said that CBS didn’t leave out Adler because they are homophobic, but because she wanted them too. She said: “CBS would write whatever I wanted.” Adding: “I’ve been acting my whole life, and I’ve never really discussed my personal life. This is a talk show…So obviously, I’m going to be discussing my life more, and I felt that the first place I wanted to do it wasn’t in a CBS press release. It just seemed impersonal, and I felt like I’d rather come in person and talk to you about all that stuff here.” Well yeah if you don’t you will have nothing to talk about. She kind of had to let that cat out of the bag before the show aired.
Gilbert’s coming out comes the day after CBS announced that they are adding token gay characters to their line-up after recieving a failing grade from GLAAD two years in a row for their poor representation of gay people. Also, do you remember when they refused to air LGBT PSA’s and commercials during the Superbowl but ran some conservative propaganda? Yeah, I remember that too. So now, CBS will have big lesbian Gilbert on The Talk, along with a gay on the William Shatner sitcom, “Bleep my Dad Says” and will be adding a gay a piece to already airing shows, “The Good Wife” and “Rules of Engagement” [Source] My guess is that all these characters will be men.
So Sara Gilbert is out, now that she can make money off it and now that the network that is paying her desperately needs to assuage GLAAD and the LGBT community. The jury is out on whether or not I am a Gilbert fan. But who cares about that? Remember Roseanne? Funny times. Once I was mistaken for Sara Gilbert and an excited Roseanne fan asked me for my autograph! If I had been able to recall Gilberts name at the time, I would have signed the Johnny Rocket’s napkin that the excited fan proffered to me.
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Scientology is deeply homophobic so good luck Leah!
Maybe someone should have done some research into the cult’s support for Prop 8, and read the account by Allan Averay-Jones being subjected to eight to ten hours a night of reparative therapy or weeks on end to turn him into a straight person.
Scientology and Homosexualty – my story from the inside.- Allan Averay-Jones
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?p=395059#post395059
Here’s the “GLBT strike out against Scientology” Facebook group:
http://tinyurl.com/25zg3qc
I’m surprised lesbian Gilbert isn’t considered a “suppressor” of Remini… as I understand scientology. But then maybe making money overrides that suppressing factor.
“The Good Wife” already has a gay character: Kalinda She may be bisexual, but she seems more likely a lesbian IMHO.
Besides, in some ways it’s better for such characters to be men. Often producers are far more reluctant to have gay male characters. Lesbians are more accepted in media.
Well,
Scientology hates a lot more than just gays, and they live in a glass house (thanks to the internet!).
L. Ron Hubbard really disliked all people of color, as well as all Christians. Here’s an interesting video, were he talks about negroes, the christian faith, and his good friend Aleister Crowley (Black Magician) :
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3020827931130963516#docid=-2594270091066150939
Check out the following points:
6:50 LRH talks derogatorily about negoes in the south
12:00 LRH talks about God living in a trunk with a leopard skin
12:50 LRH talks about how NOT smoking will cause lung cancer
16:15 LRH talks about Aleister Crowley (Black magic, signed as 666 “the beast”) who was LRH’s very good friend
http://www.scientologymyths.info/homosexuality/
Is Scientology against homosexuality?
There was some early writings that appeared to be “anti-gay”, stating that homosexuality was covertly hostile. But one must look at that in the context of the times. In the 1940s – 1950s most people in western countries did consider homosexuality to be a mental or even physical illness.
I do not have any knowledge or evidence of anti-homosexual actions taken by the church at any point, other than the few writings on the subject. It was pretty much left alone for many years.
Then in 1967 Hubbard issued a policy which reads, in part, “It has never been any part of my plans to regulate or to attempt to regulate the private lives of individuals. Whenever this has occurred, it has not resulted in any improved condition… Therefore all former rules, regulations and polices relating to the sexual activities of Scientologists are cancelled.”
Hubbard later released a book about ethical behavior that was silent on the subject of homosexuality, and offered a gender-neutral ethical guidelines about being faithful to one’s partner and avoiding promiscuity.
The Church of Scientology is a leading proponent for human rights for all people of earth as can be seen by their campaigns with Youth for Human Rights and the Citizens Commission on Human Rights.
In October 2009 a spokesperson of the Church of Scientology International put it this way:
“The church supports civil rights for everybody, regardless of sexual orientation, race, color or creed. We are a minority, too; we understand what it’s like to be persecuted, so to the extent that anything prohibits or inhibits on civil rights, we don’t agree with it.” (MSNBC, 28 October 2009 / PDF)