Comments on: Sara Gilbert: “I am who I am”—But Does She Represent All of Us? http://www.mombian.com/2010/07/29/sara-gilbert-i-am-who-i-am/ Sustenance for Lesbian Moms Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:39:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Leone Kraus http://www.mombian.com/2010/07/29/sara-gilbert-i-am-who-i-am/comment-page-1/#comment-102479 Leone Kraus Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:50:51 +0000 http://www.mombian.com/?p=7900#comment-102479 As an out and proud LGBT public relations professional in training, I found this to be an incredibly bad call on marketing/PR. We (the LGBT community) are at a point where we need people like Sara to be confident with who they are and not to hide behind closed doors. I voice my out and proud-ness openly and in a very tasteful way but I would never have the same reach and impact that people like Sara Gilbert and Ellen Degeneres have. I'm not suggesting that Sara Gilbert needs to flaunt her family and I do respect her privacy. But I feel there are ways that one can be open about their true family life while not unveiling its inner workings to the public. (Perhaps this is hard because when I walked out of my office in NYC the other day I did see someone from TMZ ready to pounce). Again, I feel we need people like Sara to share their stories openly in order to educate the portion of our society that believes the LGBT community somehow does not deserve equal rights. When something like this happens, it’s hard not to perceive it as an attack of bigotry by CBS or not to wonder whether or not someone advised Sara about not be open about her family. I’m glad to read that it was Sara’s decision. Sara if you read this, we need you! Please consider being open in sharing your wonderful family stories. It would be a huge help to all of us. As an out and proud LGBT public relations professional in training, I found this to be an incredibly bad call on marketing/PR. We (the LGBT community) are at a point where we need people like Sara to be confident with who they are and not to hide behind closed doors. I voice my out and proud-ness openly and in a very tasteful way but I would never have the same reach and impact that people like Sara Gilbert and Ellen Degeneres have.

I’m not suggesting that Sara Gilbert needs to flaunt her family and I do respect her privacy. But I feel there are ways that one can be open about their true family life while not unveiling its inner workings to the public. (Perhaps this is hard because when I walked out of my office in NYC the other day I did see someone from TMZ ready to pounce).

Again, I feel we need people like Sara to share their stories openly in order to educate the portion of our society that believes the LGBT community somehow does not deserve equal rights. When something like this happens, it’s hard not to perceive it as an attack of bigotry by CBS or not to wonder whether or not someone advised Sara about not be open about her family. I’m glad to read that it was Sara’s decision.

Sara if you read this, we need you! Please consider being open in sharing your wonderful family stories. It would be a huge help to all of us.

]]> By: Unite the Fight http://www.mombian.com/2010/07/29/sara-gilbert-i-am-who-i-am/comment-page-1/#comment-102435 Unite the Fight Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:17:31 +0000 http://www.mombian.com/?p=7900#comment-102435 Love it! It's a new twist - turning the tables so to speak. Running to my agent now with it! Love it! It’s a new twist – turning the tables so to speak. Running to my agent now with it!

]]> By: Dana http://www.mombian.com/2010/07/29/sara-gilbert-i-am-who-i-am/comment-page-1/#comment-102433 Dana Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:34:51 +0000 http://www.mombian.com/?p=7900#comment-102433 You could always make it about a gay man sleeping with his surrogate.... You could always make it about a gay man sleeping with his surrogate….

]]> By: Robin http://www.mombian.com/2010/07/29/sara-gilbert-i-am-who-i-am/comment-page-1/#comment-102432 Robin Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:16:31 +0000 http://www.mombian.com/?p=7900#comment-102432 How about Elizabeth Hasselback's comment on The View that the reason why women come out later in life [decide to be lesbian] is because all the men start dating younger women and so all they have left is each other [for companionship]. She really bugs the heck out of me. How about Elizabeth Hasselback’s comment on The View that the reason why women come out later in life [decide to be lesbian] is because all the men start dating younger women and so all they have left is each other [for companionship]. She really bugs the heck out of me.

]]> By: Unite the Fight http://www.mombian.com/2010/07/29/sara-gilbert-i-am-who-i-am/comment-page-1/#comment-102430 Unite the Fight Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:17:33 +0000 http://www.mombian.com/?p=7900#comment-102430 You don't sleep with your sperm donors?! Uh oh. I need to rewrite my in-the-works screenplay. ;) You don’t sleep with your sperm donors?! Uh oh. I need to rewrite my in-the-works screenplay. ;)

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