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Thanks to Ellen, Rosie and Melissa Etheridge, Jane Lynch never had to have a big coming out moment
By the time Glee came around in 2009 and made her a big star, Jane Lynch had scores of television and film roles to her credit and had never claimed to be straight.
But her being a lesbian did not create all kinds of headlines the way Ellen DeGeneres’ coming out did in 1997.
‘I didn’t have a coming out moment,’ she said in interview on SiriusXM Progress this week. ‘I’m an actor and when people started taking an interest in me, where they wanted to write about me, I didn’t say I wasn’t gay, so,’ I never had that.
‘And I have to give kudos to people like Melissa Etheridge and k.d lang and Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O’Donnell, all of those people who came before and at the height of their career, when they had a lot to lose, stood up and said this is who I am. And the world kind of went [gasps]…and then, nothing happened. That was really great and they kind of cleared a path for me to just stroll down.’
Lynch, who turned 55 on Tuesday (15 July), had a high-profile marriage and divorce from Lara Embry during the run of Glee but she is not critical of others who choose to remain more private about their sexual orientation.
‘Everybody has their own way to deal with it,’ she says. ‘I don’t concern myself with other people’s — whether or not they want to come out, it’s not something for me think about.
‘Everybody has their own psychology, their own issues, their own subconscious material. For me to make a broad statement – it’s like outing people. I think that was a horrible thing. You might be dealing with a very fragile part of someone’s psyche. So I think everybody has to go their own path.’
Lynch, a two-time Emmy winner, has just begun her third season of NBC’s Hollywood Game Night and stars in the upcoming NBC sitcom Angel From Hell.
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