Jodie Foster outet sich als lesbisch

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Dass Jodie Foster bei den Golden Globes einen Preis bekommen würde, stand bereits vorher fest. Die 50 Jahre alte Schauspielerin wurde im Beverly Hills Hotel für ihr Lebenswerk geehrt. Eine Überraschung gab es dann aber doch.

Denn als Foster in der Nacht zum Montag den Ehrenpreis für ihr Lebenswerk und ihre Verdienste um die Filmkunst annahm, hielt sie eine lange Dankesrede. Dabei sprach sie vor einem Millionenpublikum vor den Fernsehern zum ersten Mal direkt und öffentlich ihre Homosexualität an.

Foster dankte dabei auch ihrer langjährigen Ex-Lebensgefährtin für deren Unterstützung. "Das hier ist keine Coming-out-Rede, denn mein Coming-out hatte ich schon vor etwa 1000 Jahren, damals im Steinzeitalter", sagte Foster laut der Los Angeles Times. Sie habe gelernt, ihr Privatleben lange geheim zu halten. "Wenn ihr für ein Leben hättet kämpfen müssen, das sich real und ehrlich und trotz aller Hindernisse normal anfühlt, dann würdet ihr die Privatsphäre vielleicht ebenfalls als das Wichtigste bewerten."

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Jodie Foster comes out in a rambling, raw speech at the Golden Globes

[...] But then things quickly got more personal, while also making yet another plea for her own legendary desire to be private. She continued saying:

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the Stone Age. In those very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends, and family, coworkers and then gradually, proudly, to everyone who knew her. To everyone she actually met. But now, apparently I’m told, that every celebrity is expected to honor the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a primetime reality show. You guys might be surprised, but I’m not Honey Boo Boo child...

If you had been a public figure from the time you were a toddler, if you had to fight for a life that felt real and honest and normal against all odds, then maybe you too might value privacy above all else.

She went on to acknowledge “one of the deepest loves of my life, my heroic co-parent, my ex-partner in love, but righteous soul sister in life” of 20 years Cydney Bernard, who was present at her table along with the two sons they had together. In 2007, many people interpreted her thanking of “my beautiful Cydney” as a coming out of sorts while accepting another award. [...]

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70. VERLEIHUNG DER „GOLDEN GLOBES“
Die Nacht der Überraschungen

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Jodie Foster – die mutigste Rede Hollywoods

Für den größten Wirbel sorgte Jodie Foster (50). Als die Schauspielerin die Golden Globes für ihr Lebenswerk annahm, hielt sie eine lange Dankesrede – in der sie auch offen über ihre Homosexualität sprach und ihrer langjährigen Ex-Lebensgefährtin für deren Unterstützung dankte.

„Das hier ist keine Coming-out-Rede, denn mein Coming-out hatte ich schon vor etwa 1000 Jahren, damals im Steinzeitalter“, sagte Foster laut der „Los Angeles Times“. Sie habe gelernt, ihr Privatleben lange geheim zu halten. „Wenn ihr für ein Leben hättet kämpfen müssen, das sich real und ehrlich und trotz aller Hindernisse normal anfühlt, dann würdet ihr die Privatsphäre vielleicht ebenfalls als das Wichtigste bewerten.“

Ihre Hollywood-Kollegen waren gerührt – bei Anne Hathaway, Mel Gibson und Claire Danes kullerten die Tränen. [...]

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'LOUD AND PROUD'

Ending Years Of Speculation, Jodie Foster Comes Out At The Golden Globes

Jodie Foster ended years of rampant media speculation when she casually came out of the closet while accepting her Cecil B. Demille award at the Golden Globes Sunday night.

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She then took a more serious turn, noting, "I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the Stone Age. In those very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends, and family, coworkers and then gradually, proudly, to everyone who knew her."

Throughout her occasionally long-winded yet stirring speech, Foster, 50, went on to speak about privacy and its general absence in Hollywood -- a luxury that, to her, seems like a distant past. She took more than a few digs at oversharing, joking she was "not Honey Boo Boo" before adding, "If you had to fight for a life that felt real and honest and normal against all odds, then maybe you, too, would value privacy above all else."

Foster also thanked her ex-partner and co-parent, Cydney Bernard, and said she would only take projects that challenged her creatively -- which left a number of publications such as the Los Angeles Times to speculate whether or not the Oscar-winning actress was also announcing her retirement.

She nonetheless concluded, “Here’s to the next 50 years!”

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The brave one

Hard as it may be to believe, I won’t remember the 70th annual Golden Globes Awards for my beloved Tina Fey. Or Amy Poehler. Or Sofia Vergara’s golden globes. I mean, sure, they were all spectacular. And Tina and Amy should host everything ever always. Period. Full stop. But what I will remember and still can’t stop thinking about is the amazing acceptance speech and coming out of Jodie Foster. It was extraordinary on so many levels, none the least of which being that I never, ever, not in a million years thought it would happen.

Certainly, we all knew already. I knew as a young girl when I looked at an also young Jodie Foster in all her triumphant tomboy glory and felt that unspoken kinship. And I knew after whispers on “The Accused.” And I knew when I made her my very first Weekend Crush. And I knew in 2007, when she thanked “my beautiful Cydney” in another, less public, award acceptance speech. And I knew yesterday. And I know today.

Yet even without every saying “Yep, I’m gay,” Jodie’s very real, sometimes raw and even a little defiant admission of her personal and private truth was wonderful. Sure, some have groused that it was a little vague. Though I have no idea how calling her former partner Cydney Bernard “one of the deepest loves of my life, my heroic co-parent, my ex-partner in love, but righteous soul sister in life” in front of a viewing audience of more than 10 million people is in any way vague. Nor will we be deterred by her insisting that it isn’t a big coming out speech, in that strange bit of audio that got inexplicably cut: “I hope you guys weren't hoping this would be a big coming out speech tonight, because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.”

That’s not vague, that’s talking about what she never talks about. And you could tell, too, because boy was she nervous. And, if you think about it, weren’t we all? Weren’t we all that nervous and jumbled, maybe even more, when we finally said it even one person, let along the universe? Even if everyone already knew. Even if you should have said it ages ago. For me, that made it connect even more. The humanness of it. The honest struggle. For each person who comes out, no matter how long it takes or how many people already know, is a simple act of bravery.

The grumblers of the world of course immediately complained about why it took her so long. How others paved the way and she slid in at the end. But I believe firmly that every person should be allowed to come out at his or her own time, perhaps with a little appropriate prodding, but only when ready. And so each person who comes out counts, no matter how long it takes, and should be celebrated.

Others have questioned whether she was criticizing stars who are already out and/or slamming reality television. For the latter I say, I would much rather live in Jodie’s private world than Honey Boo Boo’s overexposed world. We can be truthful about ourselves without turning our every bowel movement into a news event. Celebrity culture is the real target here, and our insatiable desire to know every last bit of salacious minutiae about the unknowable.

As to the former, I do not believe she was swiping at the Ellens or Melissas or Martinas of the world in the least. Instead, in her own way, she was explaining her own path towards this very public moment. A path that we should not forget began in the spotlight at the age of 3 and involved a madman with a gun who shot the President of the United States just to get her attention. Her guarded nature, her insistence on privacy, you can understand why those would be the bedrock of her very core. And, let us also not forget, that at 50 – that age she repeatedly told us she is – she comes from a different generation where baby doll rainbow flag T-shirts weren’t sold at Hot Topic.

So now what? I hope Jodie feels good about what happened. Relieved and proud and hopeful about her next era. I hope she knows how much it meant, even if it took so long and we all already knew. A two-time Oscar winner and bona fide Hollywood icon doesn’t come out as family every day. But, unlike her, I have no fear that anyone will every forget that “Jodie Foster was here.” You are seen, you are more understood and you are not alone. We are all here, with you.

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I will continue to tell stories....to move people by being moved is the greatest job in the world.....
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maybe it will be so quiet and delicate that only dogs can hear it whistle, but it will be my writing on the wall.

toll!
mich hat ihre Rede im Ganzen sehr berührt. Neben ihrem Coming out auch dieser Teil:

bin gespannt, was jetzt in ihrem Leben kommt, nach der Schauspielerei

I can exclusively reveal that the Oscar winner and her photographer girlfriend of almost a year got married this past weekend.
A rep for Foster confirms the happy news.
As E! News first reported, the two started dating sometime last summer.
"It's pretty serious," a source told us in September. "They're totally in love."
Internet chatter about the two began in the summer when the two were photographed together at a technology seminar at Fox Studios in Los Angeles and out to dinner with friends a few days later. Both were at the opening of Alan Cumming's Macbeth in NYC back about a year ago, but they weren't photographed together.

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Na dann - GLÜCKWUNSCH an Jodie & Alex...