Jodie Foster Has Gotten Married

E Online has the news: "Congrats to Jodie Foster and her new wife Alexandra Hedison. I can exclusively reveal that the Oscar winner and her photographer girlfriend of almost a year got married this past weekend. A rep for Foster confirms the happy news. As E! News first reported, the two started dating sometime last summer. 'It's pretty serious,' a source told us in September. 'They're totally in love.'"

HomoQuotable - Nathaniel Frank

"Any step a gay person takes to hide their identity that they wouldn't take to hide the fact that they're, say, Irish, vegetarian or left-handed is probably not a neutral quest for privacy but reflects their own doubt about just how OK it is to be gay. Foster's reluctance to just pull an Ellen ('Yep, I'm gay'), and her tortured speech, with its resentful tone and its ultimate avoidance of the 'L' word, made being gay and coming out seem tortured things in themselves.

"Still, gay people are born with the unique burden of disclosure, one that is supremely unfair. Coming out is never just a single act but a constant obligation if one is to assure that people don't assume that they're straight. We're always encountering new people who won't know, hence stuffing us back into the closet and reimposing the burden of coming out. And for years the world has berated and punished us not only for being gay but for being honest. [snip]  How hard it is to get it perfect. If there's one thing LGBT people should agree on, it's the importance of compassion, and of not bullying our own." - Nathaniel Frank, writing for the Huffington Post.

Jodie Foster Comes Out

I'll have video shortly.

UPDATE:  From Mediaite writer Matt Wilstein:

Jodie Foster had the Golden Globes audience on the edge of their seats as she accepted the special Cecil B. DeMille Award. She began by thanking Robert Downey, Jr., who presented the award to her, but quickly went off in a more personal direction, hinting that she was about to announce something big. “So while I’m here being all confessional, I guess I just have a sudden urge to say something that I’ve never really been able to air in public… a declaration that I’m a little nervous about… but I’m just going to put it out there, loud and proud. And I’m going to need your support on this. I am, uh… single.” After the laughter and whistling died down, Foster sort-of clarified her intentions, saying “I’m not going to do a big coming out speech tonight. Because I already did my coming out speech about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.”

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HomoQuotable - Jodie Foster

".....and my beautiful Cydney who sticks with me through all the rotten and all the bliss." - Jodie Foster, concluding her thanks at Tuesday's 16th Annual Women in Entertainment Breakfast.

Most are accepting this little snippet of a glimpse into the intensely private Foster's home life as a coming out. It would be nice to hear something more, but that's not Foster's style.

Jodie Foster Gives Big To Trevor Project

The Trevor Project, the nation's only 24/7 suicide hotline for gay and questioning youth, has just received the largest donation in its history from actress Jodie Foster. The Trevor Project is in the middle of a fundraising campaign aimed to support the opening of two new call centers.

Foster made the donation in the name of the late Oscar winner and Trevor Project co-founder Randy Stone, who produced Foster's first film, Little Man Tate. Stone, who died in February of heart disease, was described by Foster as her "dearest friend."