Jodie Foster has married her girlfriend, Alexandra Hedison (who played documentary filmmaker Dylan Moreland in ‘The L Word’).

The two have reportedly been dating since last summer and tied the knot last weekend.

Hedison is a photographer as well as an actress and previously dated Ellen Degeneres.

Foster came out last year in a heartfelt speech at the Golden Globes, in which she thanked her former partner Cydney Bernard, who is co-parent to their two sons Charles and Kit.

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1. Maria Bello

Actress Maria Bello announced she was in a same sex relationship in November. The actress has stared in TV’s ‘E.R’ and the US version of ‘Prime Suspect’ as well as films like ‘Coyote Ugly’ and ‘A History of Violence’. In coming out Bello shared that she dreaded telling her twelve year old son about her romantic life, but when she told him he was happy for her. The actress shared her news via a self penned piece in the New York Times.

2. Belle Brockhoff

Australian snowboarding star Belle Brockhoff came out in August when speaking to the ABC program ‘Lateline’. Brockhoff is set to complete at the Sochi Olympics in 2014 and has been an outspoken critic of Russia’s anti-gay laws. When she announced that she was gay Brockhoff said she was proud of who she was.  The athlete said she was prepared to display a rainbow motif in defiance of Russia’s laws.

3. Jason Collins

Jason Collins became the first professional athlete in an American team sport to declare that they are gay. Collins came out via a ‘Sports Illustrated’ cover interview in May. Collins announcement drew a record 3.1 million people to the Sports Illustrated website on the day the story was released. Collins revealed he chose number 98 as his jersey number in recognition of Matthew Shepard’s death in 1998.

4. Lucas Cruikshank

Cruiskank, the star of Nickelodeon’s ‘Fred’ films declared he was gay in a YouTube video in August.  The teenage actor shared the news in a YouTube video alongside actress Jennifer Veal, who starred in the Disney TV series ‘Jessie’. The two stars of teen entertainment spent the video answering fan questions before asking for a drum roll for the final big question. Veal asks and answers the question, is Lucas gay?

5. Matt Dallas

Actor Matt Dallas is best known for his leading role in the TV series ‘Kyle XY’, in January he started the year by announcing his engagement to indie singer Hamilton Blue. Dallas played the title character in three seasons of ‘Kyle XY’ – which is about a teenage boy who wakes up naked in a forest, without a belly button who is taken in by a local family. Since the series wrapped Dallas has gone on to star in the short lived series Eastwick and picked up a guest spot on ‘Entourage’.

6. Tom Daley

Nineteen year old British diving champion Tom Daley announced he was in a same sex relationship by posting a video to YouTube in early December. It’s since been widely speculated that Daley’s partner is Oscar winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, who is twenty years older than Daley. At Christmas Daley’s family wrapped his gifts in rainbow ribbons and gave him a cooking apron that said ‘Gay Idol’.

7. Clive Davis

Music mogul Clive Davis revealed that he is bisexual when he published his autobiography in 2013. Davis is credited with bringing Whitney Houston to prominence and is involved in the careers of artists like Jennifer Hudson, Aretha Franklin, Rod Stewart, Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson and many others. The 81 year old went on to Katie Couric’s talk show and said he included the information so there could be a greater understanding about bi-sexuality.

8. Jodie Foster

When taking to the stage at The Golden Globe Awards in January to accept the Cecil B DeMille Lifetime achivement award the the fiercely private actress gave a speech that acknowledged her sexuality, her former partner and two sons. Foster said her coming out happened, ‘a thousand years ago’ and described the process as being a fragile young girl who opened up to trusted friends, family and co-workers.

9. Wentworth Miller

‘Prison Break’ star Wentworth Miller ended years of speculation about his sexuality when he published an open letter turning down an invitation to a Russian film festival because he is gay. Later in the year, just before World Suicide Prevention Day,  the actor opened up about how his struggles with sexuality had lead him to attempt suicide on more than one occasion.

10. Michelle Rodriguez

Back in 2006 Rodriquez said during an interview that she had experimented with both sexes but she’s been critical of magazine articles that described her as bi-sexual. This year the actress from ‘Girlfight’, ‘S.W.A.T’, ‘Avatar’ and TV’s ‘Lost’ opened up in an interview with Entertainment Weekly and said “”I’ve gone both ways. I do as I please. I am too f—ing curious to sit here and not try when I can. Men are intriguing. So are chicks.”

11. Jim Neighbors

Retired actor and singer Jim Neighbors wed his partner of 38 years Stan Cadwallander in Seattle, Washington, just one month after the US state declared same sex unions legal. Neighbor’s is best known for his leading role in the TV show ‘Gomer Pyle’ that ran from 1964 – 1969. In the 1980’s Neighbors appeared in a series of films with his close friend Burt Reynolds including ‘The Best Little Whore House in Texas’.

12. Robbie Rogers

Soccer player Robbie Rogers came out as gay via a post on his personal blog saying, “Secrets can cause so much internal damage. People love to preach about honesty, how honesty is so plain and simple. Try explaining to your loved ones after 25 years you are gay. I always thought I could hide this secret. Football was my escape, my purpose, my identity. Football hid my secret, gave me more joy than I could have ever imagined”. Later in the year Rogers signed with LA Galaxy.

13. Troye Sivan

Actor and You Tube star Troye Sivan, who lives here in Perth, declared that he was gay back in August. “This is not something that I’m ashamed of, and it’s not something that anyone should have to be ashamed of,” said Sivan in his announcement. Sivan shared his coming out process and said YouTube videos of other people’s coming out experiences and the ‘It Get’s Better Project’ were very helpful to him.

14. Ben Whishaw

British actor Ben Whishaw is one of the hottest actors around having stared in TV shows like ‘Criminal Justice, ‘The Hour’ and feature films including ‘Cloud Atlas’ and his role as tech wizard Q in James Bond. In August the actors representatives confirmed that over a year ago the actor has entered into a civil partnership with Australian composer Mark Bradshaw. Whishaw is currently staring in the play ‘Mojo’ in the West End.

15. Jenny Owen Youngs

Best known for her indie tune ‘F*ck Was I’, the singer announced that she was gay on the website ‘Everyone Is Gay’. The singer said rather than thinking about the fact she is gay she’d rather be climbing a tree, reading a book or writing a song, and noted that she wished being gay was insignificant has the colour of your hair or whether your left or right handed. Owens Young also announced her plans to marry her partner Kristin Russo, one of the creators of the ‘Everyone is Gay’ website.

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Anthony Ozimic,a member of The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, discusses why same-sex marriage should remain illegal.

‘Seriously, I hope that you’re not disappointed that there won’t be a big coming-out speech tonight, because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the Stone Age’.

Jodie Foster during her Golden Globe speech.

‘A couple of years ago, Ryan and I would say “that’s gay” because it’s so embedded in our culture.  You have a conversation with a couple of people and they kinda call you out about it and all of a sudden you stop saying it.’

Mackelmore talking with SameSame about why he wrote Same Love.

‘The reason there is so many gay people now is because it’s a chemical warfare operation. I have the government documents where they say they’re going to encourage homosexuality with chemicals so they don’t have children.’

Alex Jones, an American radio host. 

‘In high school these girls got mad at me and so they spread this rumour that I was having a gay relationship with one of my closest friends. And they even made up a little dance they would do in the girls’ locker room about me being gay. I still don’t know what the dance was.’

James Franco.

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Actress Jodie Foster has officially come out at The Golden Globe Awards.

Accepting the Cecil B DeMille Lifetime achievement award, the fiercely private actress gave a speech that acknowledged her sexuality, her former partner and two sons.

Foster said her coming out happened, ‘a thousand years ago’ and described the process as being a fragile young girl who opened up to trusted friends, family and co-workers. Foster commented that nowadays celebrities are expected to make announcements with all details of their private lives, with press conferences, fragrance launches and reality television shows.

The fifty year old actress was honoured for her work as an Actress and Director. Foster had previously hinted at her sexuality when receiving an award in 2007 when she thanked her then partner Cydney Bernard. Foster has always refused to answer questions about her private life in interviews.

In 2007 US magazine OUT featured a cover story about stars who would not ‘come out and play’. The cover image featured actors holding up masks with the faces of CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and Foster. Cooper publicly acknowledged that he was gay in 2012.

Watch Foster’s acceptance speech below.

Foster’s career began when she was a toddler appearing in television commercials. In 1976 she starred in a trio of films that catapulted her to fame. The widely diverse roles included the films Freaky Friday, Bugsy Malone and Taxi Driver. Foster established herself as a serious adult actor in groundbreaking roles in The Accused and Silence of the Lambs – both films won her dual Golden Globes and Academy Awards.

Foster has continued her acting career appearing in Nell, she acted opposite Richard Geer in Sommersby and long time friend Mel Gibson in Maverick. Foster has also had success as a Director with films like Little Man Tate, Home for the Holidays and most recently The Beaver.

OIP Staff

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