very interesting. - my gaydar is broken
Clementine Ford comes out
by Heather Hogan
In the March issue of Diva, Clementine Ford officially came out.
She told the magazine: "I never want to put a label on myself — but knowing that not everyone comes from such a liberal place, when something like Prop 8 comes out, you realize it’s important to stand up and be counted. A little gay kid in a small town is more important than whether I want a label."
Since joining the cast of The L Word, Ford has had plenty of opportunities to meet those small town gay kids.
Last summer, while she was shooting a public service announcement for the Point Foundation (an organization that grants scholarships to LGBT students), Ford asked Curve reporter JD Disalvatore why the charming, intelligent Point Scholars she'd met that day had been kicked out of their homes.
The answer: "Some people don’t like their kids being gay."
She sent a letter to the Point Foundation after the shoot, offering to help any way she could — even if that meant licking envelopes.
When Diva first asked her about her sexuality, Ford said she wasn't technically out yet, explaining, "For me, there’s never been a distinction about anything to do with sexuality, so there was no declaration to be made. My siblings and I would bring home men and women, and as long as they were human it wasn’t a big thing."
and boy doesn't she look like her mom