Actors

In a rambling speech at Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards, actress Jodie Foster appeared to end years of speculation by casually coming out of the closet while accepting the Cecil B. Demille Lifetime Achievement Award. Foster took the stage for an acceptance speech that was anything but predictable. [ Read more → ]

William “Billy” Haines was one of the most popular silent and talking film stars of the 1930’s. He left show business when he refused to deny his homosexuality. [ Read more → ]

Jodie Foster is a celebrated actor, director and producer. She has received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes and a Screen Actors Guild Award. [ Read more → ]

Marlene Dietrich was a movie star and cabaret singer who appeared in dozens of films during Hollywood’s Golden Age. She was one of the highest paid actresses of her time. [ Read more → ]

Chris Colfer is an actor, singer, novelist, and screenwriter. He is best known for playing Kurt on “Glee.” He is one of the first openly gay teen actors to portray an out character on primetime television. [ Read more → ]

In a new interview, openly gay British actor Rupert Everett stunned the LGBT community by telling London’s Sunday Times that he “can’t think of anything worse” for children than being raised by two gay fathers. [ Read more → ]

Ron Palillo, the actor who played Arnold Horshack on the 1970's sitcome "Welcome Back, Kotter," died Tuesday morning at his home in Palm Beach, Fla., from an apparent heart attack. He was 63. [ Read more → ]

Kristy McNichol, the 1970's child actress who won two Emmy Awards for her role as the tom-boyish Buddy Lawrence in the acclaimed ABC television drama “Family,” and who later starred in NBC's “Empty Nest,” has come out as lesbian. McNichol, 49, who has lived with... [ Read more → ]

Actor Zachary Quinto, best known for his roles as Sylar on NBC's "Heroes," and as Spock in the 2009 film version of Star Trek, has publicly announced that he is gay. [ Read more → ]