Rosie O’Donnell had planned to do it ten years earlier but one editor kept her in the closet!
“At that time, nobody printed it. I remember [Editor-in-Chief] Helen Gurley Brown took it out of an interview that [a reporter] had done with me in, like, 1992. He said, ‘Are you gay?’ and I said, ‘Yes.’ She took it out … She was protecting me because at that time it would’ve been a huge issue, right? So, I think it’s changed a lot. I think it’s much more common and people are much more used to it. Being a part of a gay family was not nearly as troubling to my kids as being part of a famous family.”
WOW – yet, this doesn’t explain why she didn’t tell another editor, or even come out on her over TV show!!!