Carrie Fisher’s strange outing of John Travolta

 

"Was Carrie Fisher wrong to boldly state what’s been whispered for the last three decades? Is outing a question of violating someone’s privacy, or shining a light on hypocrisy? As difficult as it is to reconcile, the truth is that it’s frequently both. It’s not wrong to be gay. But being dishonest is a crappy way to live – mostly for the person doing the deceiving. (It’s no picnic for the person’s children, either.) And while I’m mostly in agreement with Fisher’s “don’t care” about Travolta or anyone else’s habits per se, imagine how many fewer skeletons the world would have if more people took a chance and realized they didn’t need their closets. "

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