Jodie Foster Thanks Cydney in Accepting Sherry Lansing Leadership Award

to have Ms. Foster finally acknowledge, in so many words, what we've always known. And most importantly to have that in common with an idol of mine since childhood makes it all the more inspiring to know we can have it all! And doesn't she have it all...

Oh my God. I adore this woman. She is amazing. And i think she is going about this the right way; no dramatic statements, no slushy poses for red carpet paparazzi. We all know already, but im glad that someone as remarkable, intelligent, classy and powerful as Jodie Foster is slowly starting to become a bit more open with who she is.

Its hard enough to grow up questioning your sexuality but doing it as a child star with the weight, skill and longevity as Jodie was...im not at all surprised she has been so intensely private as she has been...

~I've been watching your world from afar, I've been trying to be where you are, I've been secretly falling apart...~

Jodie Foster is an inspiration not only for her body of work but for the woman that she is. The English dictionary is lacking in words that can properly and adequately describe Jodie Foster, what she is as a person.

I respect her privacy and wanting to keep her intimate and family life private but it is always nice to hear something that means so much being slid into a conversation bluntly, in this case a speech :)

I love that woman.

ok, who's gonna throw the party?? I am so happy that jodie has finally reached that point where she can mention cydney and I just hope that she and cydney are be happy for the rest of their lives. this is so great, I adore jodie so much, she's this great, acomplished actress and she seems so great as a person too - plus smart! so - you rock, jodie!!

I have to say that I'm kinda surprise that this hasn't spread over the net much yet. I guess it's just us lesbians all over the planet who are celebrating right now :-p and the rest of the world doesn't care. I'm really interested in how the media will react to her outing...

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from." ~ Jodie Foster

I love the way Jodie Foster handles her private life. She is out & proud in my book, or has she ever claimed to be not gay/bi or not to be in a relationship with Cidney? Of course it would be nice to hear her say the words, but then again no heterosexual stands there and declares to be straight, they usually just quietly integrate their partner into their lives. That is what Jodie does, with style, grace and dignity.

 Here in Germany many magazines and newspapers treat her as out, our biggest tabloid always writes about her "life partner" and recently there was an article in a magazine about celebrity families which presented her and Bernard as an example for the "two mommies" family model (next to the Etheridges). Is she referred to as straight in American media? How to American mainstream media deal with her private life? I would love to know more about this as an interested foreigner... ;-)

Jodie Foster was my first celebrity crush when I was 12, actually. I tell you, brains and beauty, always a good combination.

"I don't kiss girls who wear doilies." (Alice)

I'm so happy she thanked Cindy, that makes it clear for everyone (even though everyone knew). I love Jodie and I love how she doesn't 'sell' her private life in order to make more cash but that's something i wanted to hear!:)

Go Jodie!

Honestly, I think Foster's found a balance of living her life and not hiding EVERYTHING and yet keeping her private life as private as you can keep it in Hollywood. These recent events show that she's not exactly gone to spy lengths to hide her private life, showing that her kids have the name of her partner, thanking her partner in a speech and acknowledging that she does indeed HAVE a partner.

Who says coming out has to be "I'm GAY!"... why can't it just be someone living their lives with their partner without hiding. Going to the grocery store together and not in seperate cars etc. Does it has to be walking along the red carpet holding hands and using words like "sweetheart, baby, honey" when talking to each other in front of the press. It's it enough that she doesn't go out of her way to hide she's with Cydney?

And if this is her way of "coming out" I think it's enough. Good for her. Cause in all honesty can you really imagine Jodie walking along the red carpet holding her partner's hand? I can't. Because it could be it's not up to her, it could be that her partner just doesn't want to be in the limelight.

I am actually a little bit teary-eyed. Jodie's been my idol at least since I was 11 years-old.

Thanks for the happy news piece, Sarah Warn!

:-D

Like Jodie's classy style. As Sarah recounted the little shifts in the past year. She's done it her own way.

btw, has anyone noted Queen Latifah's coming out with her engagement to Jeanette Jenkins?!! She's been with her for 4 years. And it was an item in my local mainstream paper!

Actually my subject line kind of sums up how I feel about this one so I don't feel like I need to add anything further!

"I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad, and it's depressing."

Kudos to Jodie for being strong and subtle and yet making people aware of who she loves!

One does not have to shout it from the mountaintop and make it an issue.  One just has to live their life genuinely.  I think that is what she does and that makes the best statement of the way GLBT people are in reality.

"Think Sideways"

Finally, with this event, Jodi Foster has come out as the person we've known she was forever:

A woman who, like milions of us across the globe, is rather short.

"my beautiful cydney"?? That's so sweet... :-)

Apparently they believe in 'don't ask don't tell' even when the person involved does tell.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/05/people.jodiefoster.ap/

Jodie Foster & Ellen DeGeneres were both at the Trevor Project Cracked Xmas on Sunday, where Jodie presented an award to the founders of the organization.

Jodie donated a million dollars to the Trevor Project earlier this year. The Trevor Project is the only 24 hotline for suicidal GLBTQ youth in the United States.

The money goes towards the creation of a call center named in the honor of Randy Stone, one of the Trevor Project founders that passed away earlier this year.

Both stars were gracious and inspirational in their speeches about the impact this organization has had on GLBTQ youth.

To see more, please go to: www.trevorproject.org

 Kaki

Jodie's been out for years - she just hasn't been out to the press. She brings Cydney to private (press-free) events doesn't hide their relationship. Everyone who knows her knows they're together. If she doesn't speak about her to the press - well, she generally doesn't speak about anything personal to the press that I can think of, except for her kids, occasionally.

Don't get me wrong - visibility is good. We need more lesbian couples in the public eye so that people can learn to stop thinking of it as weird. But I think we need less in terms of celebrity personal lives, gay or straight. I wish everyone famous handled their personal lives the way Jodi has handled hers. And if we want to improve visibility to make gay relationships more "normal" - we could all contribute more to that ourselves by holding hands with our girlfriends in the street than Jodi could just by coming out to the media, becauase we're "normal people" and she's, well, Jodi Foster.

/rant. Sorry.

I just love Jodie Foster.  She's strong, funny, beautiful.  I guess I have always been a fan.  This is great news.  And seeing her with her Mom in that photo makes me smile as well.  She's just a class act.  I'm happy she's inching out of the closet, but I'm more happy that she's so content in her life.   She's a wonderful role model, a true hero for our time.  And hot!

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.  Winston Churchill

I don't mean afterellen and from where I stand the queer women seem to be more understanding, but I can't shake the feeling that certain factions of community just won't think it's enough until Jodie is like servicing Cydney on the red carpet. lol....

Anyhow, I think Jodie's been making her sexual orientation a non-issue all these years, and this is no different. Thanking her partner was sweet but hardly unexpected, since she was in a roomfull of people who she's probably known forever or worked with. So I'm sure it was no big deal.

About the "straight" media - why would they report on this? It's not like Jodie said Cydney is my partner, or anything, for CNN to report that Jodie came out, they'd have to make leaps and bounds in logic for their audience. I mean look at what Ms. Warn wrote, it's all true, but we are the ones making the connections.

Still, this is a very Jodie thing to do, which is fine. Her declaring in People mag that she's gay is not the kind of person she's been presenting herself as all these years.

I love Jodi Foster! As far as I'm concerned she's been out for a while. She's never denied being in a relationship with a woman and one can certainly understand why she chooses to keep her private life private. I think that's part of what makes her as amazing and levelheaded a person as she is given she has been in showbiz for so long.

She doesn't have to be Ellen or Rosie to be out (though I repesct those women as well, and I ADORE Ellen), she just has to be who she is - Jodie Foster. That's more than enough.

... you're great :)

She's been my favorite actress since I was 10. I should have realized I was gay back then...

Not that I think she's not "out enough", I actually think she handles the whole thing quite well, and with such class. But doesn't it look like she's inching out a little bit more? All these little things happening... I don't know.

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"The opposite of church is sperm!" - Sarah P. - The Lo-Down

Just for fun I went out to check the Associated Press' coverage of this event. Not a single word about Jodie's acknowledgement of Cydney. At this point I would say Jodie is standing in the closet with the door wide open.

The mainstream press chooses to keep their blinders on. Are they protecting Jodie, or the willfully ignorant Americans who still can't believe Jodie is a lesbian because 'she's so pretty'? (Pat Robertson's explanation as to why he didn't believe Ellen D was a lesbian before  she came out).

 Yay for Jodie! She's a great actress!!

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