Sean Avery and Andy Cohen in the Hamptons
This Week’s Cover: The New Art of Coming Out in Hollywood
In this week’s Entertainment Weeklyspecial report cover story, writer Mark Harris examines the new, casual method gay celebrities are using to reveal their sexuality publicly for the first time. Fifteen years ago, when Ellen DeGeneres decided to come out of the closet, it was big news. Not just big: It was the cover of Timemagazine, and a major story onOprah, Primetime Live, and CNN. Last month, another star of a popular TV comedy went public with his homosexuality. But the news thatThe Big Bang Theory’s Emmy-winner Jim Parsons is gay was reported with such matter-of-fact understatement that many people’s first reaction was a quick Google search to see if maybe he was out already and we’d all just failed to notice.
Happy birthday to Andy Cohen and Zachary Quinto!
"I realized that my friend had only said something I already knew was true. I also realized that from that minute on, nothing would ever be the same for me. Because now, ready or not, I actually was what I was afraid I was. I was overcome with anger that I had to deal with this truth. That my life was was now destined to be clandestine and covert[…] It’s ironic of course: All that trouble my motor-mouth caused me[…] and the biggest disturbance of all was caused by what I wasn’t saying. In those days, and at that age, it was not freeing to know that I was gay. It was tragic[…] At that point in our culture, there were black heroes, women heroes, Latino heroes, but there were no homosexual heroes."
— Andy Cohen, Most Talkative
First look at the new opener of The Real Housewives of New York
2. The Rachel Zoe Project
You’re either a super annoying sorority girl named Aimee or a gay guy who goes by the Internet identity of Devin Delicious. Inspirational quotes keep you going in the day-to-day and you probably work 80 hours a week in fashion PR. You imitate Rachel Zoe’s dead voice with your friends and say “I die” and “BANANAS” because it’s really funny? Or you could just be like me and watch the show to see Rachel’s concave chest and her gay husband, Rodger. (That’s not a typo. He spells it with a “d.” Gay, right?)
The Power List
How to measure a person’s power? In a world in which we have inexpensive tools to reach billions, it may seem that the globe truly is flat, and we’re all on an even playing field. But a few exemplary individuals manage to influence the way others live — either through their public personas, politics, or wealth — and affect cultural and social attitudes.
