Gay stars: That is out?

Gay stars: That is out?

Actress Ellen Page came out at Time to Grow, an LGBT young people conference. \"I'm sick of concealing,\" she stated onstage. \"I'm sick of existing by noninclusion.\" ( Jay L. Clendenin\/ Los Angeles Times)

\" Well, in all honesty, when you talk about 'the gay area,' you are talking about MY community,\" the \"Game of Thrones\" star confirmed when asked about his big following amongst \"bears\" throughout an interview with fan blog Winter season Is Coming in March 2014. ( Jerod Harris\/ Getty Images for Wired)

The \"30 Rock\" star appeared in a November 2013 meeting with Out magazine. \"I just commemorated my nine-year wedding anniversary with my partner,\" he stated. \"It seems like a wonderful time to be celebrating something like that, particularly on the heels of the DOMA as well as Prop. 8 decisions.\" (Kirk McKoy\/ Los Angeles Times)

The star claimed he concealed his alignment as a result of his upbringing. \"I went to institution in the Bronx. I found out to regularly try to hide the truth that I was gay. That facade of being someone I'm actually not simply to protect myself absolutely aided with acting,\" he informed Out magazine in 2011. ( Alberto E. Rodriguez\/ Getty Images for NAACP)

Nineteen-year-old British Olympic diving bronze champion Tom Daley revealed through a YouTube video clip that he's in a partnership with a male and also has actually been considering that spring. ( Clive Rose\/ Getty Images)

\" Touch\" actress Maria Bello took to the pages of the New York Times in December 2013 to compose a post headlined \"Emerging as a Modern Household,\" exposing the discussion she had with her child that led her to disclose her partnership with another woman, Clare. ( Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez\/ AFP\/Getty Images)

In a Facebook message to note completion of 2013 and also her recuperation from a transplant for an uncommon blood condition, \"Greetings America\" support Robin Roberts appeared as a lesbian by thanking her \"long period of time sweetheart, Brownish-yellow,\" among others. (Jay L. Clendenin\/ Los Angeles Times)

Bob Harper, a personal fitness instructor who shows up on the tv collection \"The Most significant Loser,\" came out publicly throughout an episode of the show to assist a battling participant. \"Being gay doesn't imply that you are much less than anyone else. It's just that you are,\" he claimed. ( Adam Rindy)

NBC's Jenna Wolfe and also Stephanie Gosk not just introduced that they were out on the March 27, 2013, episode of the \"Today\" show, they likewise introduced they had actually been a couple for three years, were engaged and additionally anticipating a baby lady with each other. ( Peter Kramer\/ NBC\/ Associated Press)

Well, gawwwly! \"Gomer Pyle, USMC\" as well as \"The Andy Griffith Show\" star Jim Nabors wed his long time partner, Stan Cadwallader, in Seattle in January. The relationship was never ever a trick, but the sitcom star had not come out publicly before. ( Ken Hively\/ Los Angeles Times)

Star Victor Garber confirmed his sexual orientation in a didn't- everyone-know-already means early in January 2013. In an April 2012 problem of Canadian publication FYI Garber had actually stated his 13-year-relationship with companion Rainier Andreesen was among his proudest achievements. ( Robin Marchant\/ Getty Images)

Until July, Anderson Cooper had never publicly confirmed he was gay, however he would certainly never denied it, either. Cooper's sexual orientation has actually long been an open secret, however it took an Enjoyment Weekly cover story regarding gay stars to trigger the newsman to finally come out. ( Carolyn Cole\/ Los Angeles Times)

The New York Times broke the story silently with one understated sentence. \"The Typical Heart,\" it reviewed, \"resonated with him on a couple of levels: Mr. Parsons is gay and in a 10-year connection, as well as working with an ensemble again resembled sustenance, [Parsons] claimed.\" (Allen J. Schaben\/ Los Angeles Times)

As Andrew Rannells began preparing to star as a gay male in the new NBC sitcom \"The New Regular,\" he came out to bear-magazine.com in May. (Joan Marcus)

Zachary Quinto appeared to New York magazine, taking public ownership of his sexuality with words \"as a gay guy.\" ( Al Seib\/ Los Angeles Times)

Actor Sean Maher appeared to Entertainment Weekly in September 2011, saying,\" This is my coming out sphere. I have actually been passing away to do this.\" ( Araya Diaz\/Getty Pictures)

Jonathan Knight of New Kids on the Block, far right, appeared as gay in 2011 when '80s songstress Tiffany claimed he was gay on the Bravo TV program \"Enjoy What Occurs: Live.\" Knight responded on the band's web site, stating he is pleased to be gay and has been open concerning it for greater than twenty years. ( Glenn Koenig\/ Los Angeles Times)

Nation vocalist Chely Wright was outed by on-line publication Queerty, which guessed Wright would certainly appear the day after the launch of her brand-new cd and also narrative in 2010. Wright's journey is analyzed in the documentary \"Chely Wright: Wish Me Away.\" ( Kirk McKoy\/ Los Angeles Times)

British rap artist Lady Sovereign came out in an April 2010 meeting with Queen publication. (Lawrence K. Ho\/ Los Angeles Times)

Sara Gilbert, visualized here throughout the filming of \"Roseanne,\" came out about her companion as well as her sexuality during a panel discussion for her CBS show \"The Talk.\" ( ABC)

Ricky Martin finished years of media supposition when he released an open letter in Spanish and also English to followers on his personal site. (Eric Jamison\/ Invision\/AP)

\" Joy\" celebrity Chris Colfer came out to an \"Accessibility Hollywood\" press reporter in a meeting in 2009. (Kirk McKoy\/ Los Angeles Times)

Sean Hayes made use of the Advocate to break the news in a 2010 cover story. ( Al Seib\/ Los Angeles Times)

Rolling Stone publication broke the news in 2009. Adam Lambert, the \"American Idolizer\" star, verified what many had actually been believing, claiming, \"I don't believe it must be a shock for anybody to hear that I'm gay.\" ( Irfan Khan\/ Los Angeles Times)

Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile opened up about being lesbian during a 2009 meeting with the Los Angeles Times. \"I wish that someplace in Town, USA, a 15-year-old youngster seeks to me as a good example the means I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as good example,\" she stated. (Timothy Haitt)

Meredith Baxter informed Matt Lauer of the \"Today\" program that she really did not want \"some tabloid to take a story and make it up. ... So I desired it to be in my own words.\" ( Valerie Macon\/ Getty Images)

Starlet Wanda Sykes revealed to a crowd she was gay at a same-sex marital relationship rally in Las Las vega in 2008. Sykes claimed she felt directly assaulted by The golden state's Recommendation 8 that banned gay marital relationship, according to a New york city Times short article on the occasion. (Kirk McKoy\/ Los Angeles Times)

People magazine broke the information concerning this \"American Idol\" celebrity, who posed on its cover with his newborn kid. \"I can not increase a youngster to exist or to hide points,\" he said. ( Charles Sykes\/ Invision\/AP)

David Hyde Pierce's sexual orientation became public when the Associated Press reported that he moved to Los Angeles in the 1990s with his partner, Brian Hargrove. ( Paul Morse\/ Los Angeles Times)

Bloc Event musician Kele Okereke gave a number of meetings with gay-oriented publications up until more freely discussing his sexuality throughout a 2007 interview with the Guardian. ( Michael Robinson Chavez\/ Los Angeles Times)

Neil Patrick Harris brought out a declaration to People publication as \"a very material gay guy living [his] life to the maximum,\" saying as opposed to overlook speculation into his personal life, he wanted to tell the general public the reality. (Liz O. Baylen\/ Los Angeles Times)

In a 2004 meeting Cynthia Nixon informed the New York Daily News she had \"nothing to hide\" about her connections with women. ( Laura Cavanaugh\/ Getty Images)

Rosie O'Donnell appeared throughout a comedy regimen at a 2002 ovarian cancer cells advantage. ( Gary Friedman\/ Los Angeles Times)

The REM lead man, musician Michael Stipe, finished years of public speculation when he told Time publication he was a \"queer artist\" throughout a May 2001 meeting. Prior to appearing he said he \"was being made to be a coward about it,\" and also was ready to inform the public the reality concerning his sexuality. (Bryan Chan\/ Los Angeles Times)

Ellen DeGeneres appeared publicly with a Time publication cover in April 1997. The headline: \"Yep, I'm gay.\" ( Brian van der Brug\/ Los Angeles Times)

Artist Melissa Etheridge revealed she was a lesbian throughout the January 1993 Triangular Round-- a gay and also lesbian gala that celebrated the first commencement of Head of state Clinton. ( Manuel Balce Ceneta\/ AP)

Musician k.d. lang came out in 1992 to Advocate publication. \"There are a lot of different opinions on just how to gain approval,\" she claimed. \"I don't want to injure my mother by coming out in the press. However at the same time I don't wish to injure [gay] culture, as well as it's like-- what do you do?\" ( Gina Ferazzi\/ Los Angeles Times)

Rupert Everett was freely gay early in his occupation, a choice he later on told the Guardian may have hurt his growing profession. \"It's not really simple,\" he claimed. \"And also, truthfully, I would not recommend any actor necessarily, if he was truly thinking of his profession, ahead out.\" ( Evan Agostini\/ Getty Images)

Star Ian McKellen reviewed his sexual orientation for the first time in 1988 on BBC Radio 3 when discussing the logic of a British expense that forbade the \"promo of homosexuality.\" ( Jennifer S. Altman\/ For The Times)

Artist Elton John first came out as bisexual throughout a Wanderer \"Elton John: It's Lonely on top\" interview in 1976. It had not been till after his 2nd divorce in 1988 that he told Rolling Stone he was comfortable being a gay male. (Michael Robinson Chavez\/ Los Angeles Times)

Much Of Rock Hudson's Hollywood good friends said they knew he was gay long before People magazine reported in 1985 that he was dying of AIDS. Nevertheless, the write-up noted the initial public confirmation of his sexual preference, and Hudson's fatality is credited with humanizing people with help. ( Los Angeles Times)