Stephanie Miller, comedienne and radio show host, says she is gay

[onehandle]

Source: On The Red Carpet

Stephanie Miller, a comedienne and host of a syndicated radio show, says she is gay but has dated men before and jokes she is still attracted to firemen.

"I'm a gay woman," Miller, 48, said on the show, as heard in a segment posted on her website on Friday. "I've got the gay on me. There, that's wasn't so hard, was it?"

"The fact that I'm kind of a single loser - that's mostly true. I still think firemen are hot. I've always thought, do I owe everybody my sexual history? I've been out to everybody - my family my friends. Who really didn't know this?

Miller said country singer Chely Wright's declaration of her own homosexuality in May and recent hurdles and breakthroughs to try to legalize gay marriage in California, where the comedienne lives, inspired her to come out publicly herself.

Read more: http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/2010/08/stephanie-miller-comedienne-and-radio-show-host-says-she-is-gay.html?rss=rss-kabc-snippet-7609138

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Didn't see this in LBN. Not AP or Reuters material it seems.

Good for Stephanie.

[babylonsister]

1. Botany...

:loveya: :cry:

And she's 48? I thought I read she's older, not that it matters.

[lordsummerisle]

2. Isn't she technically bi then? n/t

[Ian David]

4. Maybe a little. n/t

[DURHAM D]

5. No.

Tapes from today's show are available at her website.

[lordsummerisle]

8. I was basing it on this...

Stephanie Miller, a comedienne and host of a syndicated radio show, says she is gay but has dated men before and jokes she is still attracted to firemen.

[DURHAM D]

9. Maybe you should just listen to the two taped segments. nt

[lordsummerisle]

21. I just listened to them

and I sense a double standard here. Steph and the caller agreed if you're gay and you admit to being attracted to the opposite sex at times then it's totally OK and doesn't mean you're bi or change the fact that you're gay.

But as a straight male I know if I admitted to occasional attraction to the same sex I would immediately be labeled as gay or at least bi-sexual...

[truthrocks]

27. Agreed!

[undeterred]

11. Well there are female firemen too.

Our fire chief is a gay woman.

[Fearless]

22. +1000

[Chef Eric]

24. Wouldn't that make them firewomen? nt

[CTyankee]

33. "fire fighter" is gender neutral and actually makes more sense...nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

30. Photos . . I want pho . . Never mind.

[defendandprotect]

20. That's what I was going to say ... and bisexuality is a much underacknowledged subject.....!!

30% of males in Latin America were revealed to "love other men" which was

discovered during the AIDS epidemic there --

even Doctors in the country weren't aware of this!!

They found out when married women began turning up with the HIV virus --

and had NOT had affairs or sex with anyone but their husbands!

That's how dumbed down we have been made by CHURCH control of human sexuality!!

[Ian David]

3. I'm surprised that she credited Chely Wright, and not James Randi.

After all, he's closer to her own age.

[DURHAM D]

6. You may want to listen to the tapes -

and you will understand.

[Ian David]

32. I was joking. n/t

[dsc]

7. apparently they became close friends

and Chely and her talked a great deal about this.

[kestrel91316]

10. I look forward to the day when one's sexual preferences are of no more interest

than whether one is left- or right-handed.

[OnyxCollie]

12. Leftie!!!

[R. P. McMurphy]

18. my thoughts exactly. n/t

[DBoon]

13. I am heartbroken!!! nt

[Alcibiades]

14. This reminds me of when Nathan Lane came out

I think it was him, at least, he said something along the lines of "I would have done it before, but I just figured everybody knew."

Not a real shocker if you're a regular listener.

[MannyGoldstein]

15. Of course, I still love her

Best show on radio today.

[Larkspur]

16. This explains her "gay ray" on men.

Did she stare into her bathroom mirror too long and "gay ray" herself? :sarcasm:

I'm happily single and cheerfully childfree and the same age as Stephanie, but I'm not gay. I just like being single and childfree.

[tishaLA]

17. Congratulations, Stephanie

Thanks for sharing your truth.

[SoapBox]

19. Ditto!

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[CTyankee]

34. what compelled you to even go there?

[DURHAM D]

35. Disgusting. nt

[8 track mind]

25. Good for her

I think it would have been way cooler if Jim Ward did Tom Brokaw and announced it ;)

[Kerrytravelers]

26. Mama, you rock.

I gotta get my gaydar recalibrated. I grew up in San Francisco. What the hell???


:rolf:

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[6000eliot]

29. I thought she was dating Hal Sparks?

[lillypaddle]

31. She kids ...