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...Cruise. The film, which was commissioned by HBO (a division of Time's parent company, Time Warner) and will air on the cable channel April 6, profiles gay families aboard a 2004 cruise from New York City to the Caribbean that was organized by O?Donnell and her partner Kelli O'Donnell. Rosie spoke to TIME about the challenges of gay parenting...
...idea. I said ?We have to rent the best ship there is? and Kelli and Greg said that?s ridiculous -- it fits 2,500 people. But I wanted it to be the best experience of these families? lives. I wanted them to be treated with dignity and respect. So we take the risk and we see if we build it, who will come. We advertised in gay media and I did shows like The Tonight Show and talked about it as much as I could and people called and booked. It was very moving that first morning when we walked...
...TIME: Now that you?re talking about you and Kelli building a family together, have you heard from other gay families across the country about whether it helps them to talk openly about their families...
...secret within the press reporting it because the press didn?t really do that. It?s hard to imagine now with Ellen coming out and Will and Grace, but so much has happened now since my show started (more than ten years ago) Was I hiding? No. She (Kelli) sat next to me at the Emmys every year and when I almost died with my hand (O'Donnell was hospitalized with a severe staph infection in 2001), and I got the Emmy award I said ?I want to thank Kelli who slept on the floor of ICU and saved...
...TIME: And will you, Kelli and the kids go on these trips...