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Actor Sophia Bush came out as queer in an emotional essay in Glamour and confirmed she’s in a relationship with retired U.S. Women’s National Team soccer player Ashlyn Harris. In , Bush released a video with the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, calling on New York State to legalize same-sex marriage.

"I am Barbara Bush, and I am a New Yorker for marriage equality," she said in the brief message, sponsored by an advocacy group. NEW YORK (AP) - Former George W. Bush's daughter Barbara has announced her support for gay marriage, breaking with her father on a key social issue but joining her mother and.

Barbara Bush, the daughter of former George W. Bush, has made a video for the Human Rights Campaign supporting gay marriage in New York. Bush's wife, Laura, has already gone on record. Sophia Bush said she "wouldn't change a thing" and feels "free and light and scared and trembling" after opening up about her marriage, fertility journey and coming out as queer in her April Mar 27, Guest Contributor.

By Matthew E. But I was also struck by the other LGBT media news of the week, how it was handled and what the headline was not. Then they went to commercial. It was typical for a morning program, and not unlike what had happened several months previously when Jenna Bush Hager announced her pregnancy on air although George W. She was choosing to make an announcement of her pregnancy, not of her sexual orientation, and she did it not because of outside pressure or as an act of advocacy, but because she had something exciting to share, and presumably because her audience was going to notice.

I have always been very conflicted about the public coming out of any celebrity, but particularly of journalists.

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On the one hand, I am a big believer that having out LGBT people in the public eye is essential for raising a bright light to the civil-rights issues we face and providing role models for the next generation. Many people live openly gay lives without making headlines. They are out to their family, friends and colleagues, but either do not warrant a public announcement of their sexual orientation or leave that type of advocacy to others.

Wolfe, Gosk and NBC are perhaps making a bigger statement in their handling of this news than if they had the two women on the couch announcing that they are lesbians.