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...right--lesbian Ellen...
...DeGeneres is not the only lesbian host who's having a great year. Last fall Rosie O'Donnell took over The View like the loudest third-grader at a school recital and made it a must-see--building buzz, tweaking Donald Trump and waving her sexuality like a semaphore flag. This doesn't mean America is about to elect Barney Frank President. But it means that in the intimate genre of TV hosting, there's an open seat for gay people at the national coffee table...
...help that DeGeneres is not exactly a confessional comic--despite having come out on the cover of this magazine--and mentions her love life only occasionally on her show. O'Donnell, on the other hand, has become the hot-medium lesbian to DeGeneres' cool. Does everyone like her? No. It's fitting that she should feud with Trump, who, with his thing for younger ladies and erecting tall, ostentatious, er, buildings, is a caricature of male heterosexuality...
...coming out show-biz suicide for O'Donnell? Every celebrity should destroy her career so well. She has shown Middle America that lesbians can love women without hating men. And she has used her sexuality--the lesbian is Switzerland in the battle of the sexes--as entrée to discuss such concepts as the idea that sexual preference is a continuum, not an either/or...
CLARIFICATION The Feb. 21 news article "BGLTSA To Hold Awareness Week" did not fairly represent the debate over the Black Students Association's decision not to support the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance's first-ever Race and Queerness Week. The article should have disclosed that the two BSA members criticizing their own group's decision were also members of the BGLTSA...