Meredith Baxter comes out

[toddsmitts]

Note: this was a public announcement, so I think it's kosher.

omg.yahoo.com/news/former-family-ties-star-meredith-baxter-i-m-a-lesbian/32014?nc

Former 'Family Ties' Star Meredith Baxter: 'I'm A Lesbian'Access Hollywood - 58 minutes ago

NEW YORK, New York -- Former "Family Ties" star Meredith Baxter has revealed she is a lesbian.

Meredith, who starred as Michael J. Fox's mother on the hit '80s television show, confirmed the news to Matt Lauer on Wednesday's "Today."

"I guess I wanted to... say that I'm a lesbian," Meredith revealed on the NBC morning program. "It was a later-in-life recognition of that fact."

Meredith, 62, has been living life as a lesbian for seven years and confirmed to Matt that she has been involved in a relationship for four years with contractor Nancy Locke. But it was only after becoming involved with another woman that Meredith realized why her three marriages to men didn't work out.

(more at the link)

[Naj]

I never knew, but then again, why should anyone have to disclose either way to the public whether he/she is heterosexual or otherwise. In Meredith's case, I think there is still a problem with sexual identity in that it really needs to be about the person one is attracted to and not the gender. In many cases people float back and forth between the sexes or uni-gendered (inter-sex) individuals who are, unfairly, elmininated from the entire discussion. The subject is just not presented fully or fairly.

[ninja1088]

I personally don't understand, as long as they aren't having sex with children or relatives, what business of ours is it?