New Kids on the Block's Jonathan Knight: “I Have Never Been Outed By Anyone But Myself!”

From time to time, you will have a celebrity come out as gay and say they were never in the closet. Most recently, Johnny Weir came out.

But the truth is, whether you are famous or not, sometimes you have to come out time and time again in so many ways. So this appears to be the case with Jonathan Knight, a member of New Kids on the Block.

Last week, it seemed that singer Tiffany had possibly outed him when she casually mentioned that he is gay. Knight quickly showed his support of her via Twitter and has now taken things a step further in the New Kids on the Block website.

Here is an excerpt from his statement:

“I have never been outed by anyone but myself! I did so almost twenty years ago. I never know that I would have to do it all over again publicly just because I reunited with NKOTB! I have lived my life very openly and have never hidden the fact that I am gay! Apparently the pre requiste to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption “I am gay”. I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected! My belief is that you live your life by example, and not by a caption on a magazine! If there ever has been any confusion about my sexuality, then you are someone that doesn’t even know me!” “I love living my life being open and honest, but at this time I choose not to discuss my private life any further!”

Now, how much longer before his brother, Jordan, also comes out of the closet? Hopefully soon!

Another Menudo Member Comes Out!

There's (At Least!) One In Every Boy band.

Angelo Garcia, once the youngest-ever member of Menudo and a bandmate of Ricky Martin's, has come out as gay in the pages of the June 8th issue of "TV Notas".

In the piece, he says he's never been closeted: "I'm very honest about who I am, but I don't like labels...people need to understand that someone's sexuality doesn't make the person. I'm more than that, a son, brother a musician..." But I believe he is confirming his identity publicly for the first time on the heels of appearing nude in the gay magazine, ParagonMen.

He says he wasn't surprised when Ricky Martin came out, though he never saw Martin with a man or woman and assumed he was asexual (and no, they never "messed around together as he was 10 when Martin was 18, y'all). Martin had his own private room apart from the others.

Garcia theorizes their manager might have thought Martin was gay and kept him from his impressionable bandmates, or Martin may have had a private room as a perk since he was the eldest Menudo.

As for his dating life, Garcia confirms he has been with famous actors...but coyly won't name names since they're not out. He is currently in a relationship.

In case you were wondering, Garcia is still an active performer (and obviously a bodybuilder who thinks too much of a good thing is never enough—wow).

For Gay Celebs, 'Out' Is A Matter Of Definition

Anna Paquin, who is engaged to her 'True Blood' co-star Stephen Moyer, has explained the thinking behind her surprise decision to come out as bisexual in a gay rights public service announcement this April.

"I'm not someone who endlessly talks about her personal life for no reason, but obviously, as someone who identifies as bisexual, those are issues I really care about," she told Zap2it on Tuesday. "It wasn't like it was a big secret. It was just a cause I cared about and privately supported, but not one that I had ever had an opportunity to speak out about in a way that would be useful."

In a year of coming out stories, some more surprising than others (Sean Hayes, Ricky Martin, Chely Wright), Paquin's case casts light on the constantly shifting politics of how we view celebrities and sexuality.

Like celebrity pregnancies, the matter of whether a gay star is "out of the closet" or not is one of those things that should be black-and-white, but isn't. If a star is openly gay among friends and family but hasn't issued a press release, are they considered "out"?

For years, Neil Patrick Harris occupied that middle ground that so confounds journalists who want to stick a label on people. He would attend public events with his boyfriend, but given that they stubbornly refused to have the word "gay" tattooed on their foreheads, it was hard to know what to call the relationship in print.

Reporters are in a similar situation right now with a prominent singer and actress that often goes to media events with the same lady by her side. But because there has been no press release, respectable outlets will not report what seems to be the blatantly obvious conclusion: That the couple is in a public lesbian relationship. (Needless to say, many blogs and tabloids do not exercise that restraint.)

So are relationships like that, to use Paquin's words, "a big secret"? Hardly anyone was surprised when Ricky Martin came out as a "fortunate homosexual man," but that didn't mean the press could call him that before he made his statement. (In 1956, Liberace successfully sued the London Daily Mirror for implying that he was gay. He won $22,000 in damages because the paper called him "fruit-flavored.")

Clearly, celebrities feel more comfortable coming out in 2010 because it is not the career-ending revelation that it would have been for an earlier generation of stars, like Montgomery Clift (who never came out) and Tab Hunter (who did). However, even gay-rights supporters would probably agree that the world is not yet ready to accept a publicly gay actor playing a heterosexual romantic lead in a Hollywood blockbuster. Sean Hayes's credibility was recently questioned by a Newsweek reporter (who is also gay) for playing straight in a Broadway musical.

From a journalist's perspective (at least this journalist, who is gay), sexuality should be reported on as merely a fact, like marital status or hair color or whether they own a dog. However, a rising star who could potentially lose an eight-figure paycheck if he or she were disqualified from a leading role would reasonably look at the matter differently.

The only thing which is certain is that attitudes toward gay celebrities are changing to be more tolerant. Perhaps the next generation's Anna Paquin won't have to do a PSA about gay rights, because it won't be necessary.

Ricky Martin Reveals: I Am a Fortunate Homosexual

After years of sidestepping questions about his sexual orientation, singer Ricky Martin reveals in a heartfelt posting online that he is gay.

"I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man," Martin, 38, said Monday on http://www.rickymartin.com/. "I am very blessed to be who I am."

He said his twin sons, who turn 2 in August, inspired him to be true to himself.

"To keep living as I did up until today would be to indirectly diminish the glow that my kids were born with," Martin writes. "These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed."

Martin has said fatherhood changed his life for the better. "I'm so happy!" he said in a December 2008 interview after his sons were born. "Everything they do, from smiling to crying, feels like a blessing. Being a father feels amazing. This has been the most spiritual moment in my life."

After Martin's announcement Monday, the Gay, Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation issued a statement in support of the singer.

"When someone like Ricky Martin comes out, hundreds of millions of people now have a cultural connection with an artist, a celebrity and, perhaps most importantly, a father who happens to be gay," said Jarrett Barrios, President of GLAAD. "His decision to model this kind of openness and honesty can lead to greater acceptance for countless gay people in U.S., in Latin America and worldwide."

Here is Ricky's Full Message:

"A few months ago I decided to write my memoirs, a project I knew was going to bring me closer to an amazing turning point in my life. From the moment I wrote the first phrase I was sure the book was the tool that was going to help me free myself from things I was carrying within me for a long time. Things that were too heavy for me to keep inside. Writing this account of my life, I got very close to my truth. And thisis something worth celebrating.

For many years, there has been only one place where I am in touch with my emotions fearlessly and that's the stage. Being on stage fills my soul in many ways, almost completely. It's my vice. The music, the lights and the roar of the audience are elements that make me feel capable of anything. This rush of adrenaline is incredibly addictive. I don't ever want to stop feeling these emotions. But it is serenity that brings me to where I'm at right now. An amazing emotional place of comprehension, reflection and enlightenment. At this moment I'm feeling the same freedom I usually feel only on stage, without a doubt, I need to share.

Many people told me: "Ricky it's not important", "it's not worth it", "all the years you've worked and everything you've built will collapse", "many people in the world are not ready to accept your truth, your reality, your nature". Because all this advice came from people who I love dearly, I decided to move on with my life not sharing with the world my entire truth. Allowing myself to be seduced by fear and insecurity became a self-fulfilling prophecy of sabotage. Today I take full responsibility for my decisions and my actions.

If someone asked me today, "Ricky, what are you afraid of?" I would answer "the blood that runs through the streets of countries at war...child slavery, terrorism...the cynicism of some people in positions of power, the misinterpretation of faith." But fear of my truth? Not at all! On the contrary, It fills me with strength and courage. This is just what I need especially now that I am the father of two beautiful boys that are so full of light and who with their outlook teach me new things every day. To keep living as I did up until today would be to indirectly diminish the glow that my kids where born with. Enough is enough. This has to change. This was not supposed to happen 5 or 10 years ago, it is supposed to happen now. Today is my day, this is my time, and this is my moment.

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment. The word "happiness" takes on a new meaning for me as of today. It has been a very intense process. Every word that I write in this letter is born out of love, acceptance, detachment and real contentment. Writing this is a solid step towards my inner peace and vital part of my evolution.

I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am."

-Ricky Martin

[Editor's Note: We're proud of Ricky and look forward to his ability to live an "open" lifetime with his partner.]

Michael Urie: 'I'm Not Gay Or Straight'

Ugly Betty star Michael Urie has opened up about his sexuality, insisting he's never felt comfortable labelling himself "gay" because he's enjoyed relationships with women in the past.

The actor, who plays fashion assistant Marc on the hit sitcom, is currently in a long-term relationship with a man but he refuses to categorise his sexual orientation.

He tells The Advocate magazine, "I've never said I was straight, and I'm not saying I'm gay now. I never lie, and I've never shied away from the topic... I am not a hypocrite - certainly not now.

"I've been in a relationship for a while now, and if you just met the two of us together we'd be 'gay'. But that somehow means anything that happened before (we met) didn't count - and I don't feel that way.

"I know that some people feel that way. They were with women, but it always felt wrong. But it didn't for me. It felt right at the time. It didn't work out, but it also didn't work out with other men - many times. That's why 'gay' never seemed right."

Urie admits he has been guarded about his personal life in the past over fears 'coming out' could hurt his career, adding: "Certainly there was a point where I was like, 'I don't know how long Ugly Betty is going to last and how well it's going to do, and I might want some real anonymity if it ends quickly.' I was also never one to seek out publicity or attention, and I basically didn't want to be labelled...

"But things are different now. I'm much more comfortable, and I'm not as worried about a future for myself."

Family Ties's Meredith Baxter: 'I'm a Lesbian Mom'

Most people know Meredith Baxter as Elyse Keaton, everyone's favorite mom from the hit '80s sitcom Family Ties. But now the actress reveals to People Magazine that she's ready for the world to see her in a different – and surprising – way: "I'm a lesbian mom," she says.

Before Baxter, 62, first started dating women seven years ago, the thought of being gay "had never crossed my mind," she tells People Magazine. Having been in three failed marriages to men (most famously to actor David Birney), she says of her many difficult years before coming out, "I was never comfortable with myself." But she's quick to add, "That doesn't mean I was questioning."

Now in a four-year relationship with building contractor Nancy Locke – the couple have lived together for two years – the actress, who continues to act and run a skincare company, says, "I feel like I'm being honest for the first time."

Baxter was open about her new-found identity almost immediately with her five kids. Her son Peter’s reaction, like that of his siblings, was both reassuring and supportive. "I just couldn't stop smiling," says Peter, 25, "because she finally figured it out."

For much more about Baxter, her decision to come out and her life with her partner, pick up this week's issue of People.

National Coming Out Day

National Coming Out Day is an internationally-observed civil awareness day for coming out and discussion about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues. It is observed on October 11 every year by members of the LGBT communities and their supporters (allies).

To celebrate this special day, here is a list of actors, actresses, politicians, writers, journalists, singers and athletes who are out:

Wilson Cruz, John Benjamin Hickey, Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Cheyenne Jackson, Luke Macfarlane, Richard Chamberlain, Chad Allen, Martina Navratilova, Elton John, Robert Gant, KD Lang, Rufus Wainwright, Adam Lambert, Neil Patrick Harris, Rachel Maddow, George Takei, Doug Spearman, Tim Gunn, Scott Evans, Suze Orman, Gavin Creel, Phillip Keene, Cherry Jones, Thom Bierdz, Lily Tomlin, Jonathan Slavin, Todd Haynes, Jason Stuart, Billie Jean King, Anthony Rapp, Stephen Fry, Wanda Sykes, Peter Paige, Patrik-Ian Polk, Jane Lynch, Gus Van Sant, Christopher Seiber, Dale Reynolds, Dave Koz, Greg Lougainis, Craig Chester, Amelie Mauresmo, Randy Harrison, Chaz Bono, Darryl Stephens, Rosie Jones, Ian McKellen, Amanda Beardse, Tom Ford, Nick Adams, David Geffen, Billy Bean, Michael Feinstein, Gene Robinson, Janis Ian, Nate Berkus, Matthew Mitcham, Leslie Jordan, Bruce Vilanch, Ari Gold, Jill Bennett, TR Knight, Adam Shankman, Matthew Montgomery, John Amaechi, Michelle Paradise, Bryan Batt, Jesse Tyler Fergeson, David Moretti, David Kopay, Michael Patrick King, Nicolas Rodriguez, Don Roos, Bruce Cohen, Harvey Fierstein, Tony Kushner, Dustin Lance Black, Clive Barker, Steve Callahan, Marco Pennette, Charlie David, Kelly McGillis, Miss Cleo, Kyan Douglas, Cynthia Nixon, Alec Mapa, Danny Roberts, Dan Butler, Sheila Kuehl, Bryan Singer, Scott Rudin, Jai Rodriguez, Kyan Douglas, Reichen Lemkuhl, Thomas Roberts, Heather Matorazzo, Boy George, Clay Aiken, Greg Berlanti, Angela Robinson, Tab Hunter, Rex Lee, Billy Stritch, Chip Arndt, Jason Gould, Alan Ball, Paris Barclay, Andy Bell, Steve Kmetko, Sarah Paulsen, David Hyde Pierce, Jim J. Bullock, David Burtka, J.P Calderon, Jaason Simmons, BD Wong, Mellissa Etheridge, Tammy Lynn Michaels, Alan Cumming, Dan Savage, Hilary Rosen, Rupert Everett, Cheryl Swoops, Rudy Galindo, Malcolm Gets, Carson Kressley, Darrin Hayes, Silvio Horta, Gabriel Romero, Michael Stipe, Del Shores, Nathan Lane, Eric Alva, Harvey Levin, Michael Keans, Ross Matthews, John Cameron Mitchell, Ryan Murphy, Coco Peru, Christopher Rice, David Sedaris, Christian Siriano, Stephen Sondheim, Scott Thompson, Jim Verraros, John Waters, Suzanne Westhoefer, Michelle Wolff, David Young, Craig Zaden, Kate Clinton, Dan Choi, Clementine Ford.

Be proud...and come out!

Mika: 'Bisexual, If You Need a Term for Me'

The BRIT Award-winning singer-songwriter Mika, whose sexuality has been the subject of rumor since he entered the public eye in early 2007, said this month, "Call me bisexual, if you need a term for me."

In an interview with Dutch magazine Gay & Night he mentioned his reluctance to use labels, a frequent response to questions levelled at him over his sexual preferences, before commenting on bisexuality:

"I've never ever labeled myself. But having said that, I've never limited my life. I've never limited who I sleep with. … Call me whatever you want. Call me bisexual, if you need a term for me."

In 2008 he told the US magazine Out that it was possible to discuss "sexuality without using labels", and has not previously identified a term to use when describing his sexual preference, leading some commentators to coin neologisms such as 'ambisexual' and 'gaybe'.

But his insistence on keeping his sexuality under wraps has led to hate messages and even one death threat: "It was over whether I am gay or not. He wasn't happy that I won't talk about my personal life like that," he told thisislondon.co.uk.

London-based and educated at the prestigious Westminster School and the Royal College of Music, Mika has enjoyed appreciative critical reaction to his first studio album and the Gay & Night Magazine interview comes as he promotes his second, The Boy Who Knew Too Much, released in the UK this week.

Michael Urie: “I Don’t Think It’s Really Newsworthy If the Gay Guy From ‘Ugly Betty’ is Gay or Not”

Obviously any gay person has the absolute right to come out - or not - whenever they choose. But Ugly Betty star Michael Urie has so far declined to come out as anything despite playing a gay role on TV in Betty, currently playing an early gay activist on stage in The Tempermentalist, and appearing at countless LGBT events.

He was interviewed by New York Magazine about his refusal to discuss his sexuality even though ion his website he describes himself as “a member of the LGBT community.”

“Actors have to be able to do lots of different things, and while I’d say there’s an ongoing theme [to the parts I play], I’m also not interested in having any real publicity about who I am and what my private life is and things like that,” Urie said. “I’m an actor and I don’t want to be a [fill-in-the-] blank actor.”

He was asked if he was tired of interviewers asking him about his sexuality: “They don’t ask about it as much as you might think. Actually, it’s been a long time since anyone asked it. I don’t think it’s really newsworthy if the gay guy from Ugly Betty is gay or not

Adam Lambert: I'm Gay

As promised, Adam Lambert is clearing up all the speculation about his sexuality in the new issue of Rolling Stone.

"I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay," Lambert tells the magazine. "I've been living in Los Angeles for eight years as a gay man."

While Lambert is proud of his sexuality – "I embrace it," he says. "It's just another part of me" – he's focused on his career. "I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader."

Lambert, who says he was worried about coming out on American Idol because it would be "so sensationalized that it would overshadow what I was there to do, which was sing," admits to having a crush on his roommate and Idol winner Kris Allen.

"I was like, 'Oh, s–, they put me with the cute guy,' "Lambert recalls of bunking in the Idol mansion with Allen. "Distracting! He's the one guy that I found attractive in the whole group on the show: nice, nonchalant, pretty and totally my type – except that he has a wife. I mean, he's open-minded and liberal, but he's definitely 100 percent straight."

As for the photos of Lambert dressed in drag and kissing other men that popped up online shortly after he made a splash on Idol, he says they're not really representative of who he is. "I've only dressed in drag three or four times," he says. "That's not me."

And while he's been spotted out with close friend Drake LaBry, Lambert says he didn't mind the attention he got during Idol from screaming female fans. "I loved it this season when the girls went crazy for me," Lambert admits. "As far as I'm concerned, it's all hot."

Adam Is Open About His Sexuality, Says Kara DioGuardi

American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert may want America to keep speculating about his sexuality, but there's at least one person who has no doubt which way the 27-year-old singer swings: judge Kara DioGuardi.

"I don't think that Adam was ever in [the closet]," she says in a chat set to air on The View Friday.

Her comment came as part of a response to host Barbara Walters, who had asked if Lambert's controversial loss to Kris Allen was influenced by questions about whether Lambert is gay. Lambert has a penchant for eyeliner, nail polish, tight pants and flamboyant hair styles, and has been photographed kissing other men.

"I hope not," DioGuardi answered. "Because we should be judging on talent and viability in the music industry, and they both had that."

In an earlier interview with PEOPLE.com, Lambert said people who worried about whether he preferred men or women romantically needed to "calm down," and that the most important thing was that he was being true to himself.

"You should own who you are and what you're about, and never make apologies for it," he said.

Fergie the Latest Star to \Come Out as Bisexual

Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie is the latest celebrity to come out as bisexual.

The star, who married Josh Duchamel in January, told the Sun: “Put it this way, I’ve experimented definitely, but I have never had a steady girlfriend.”

She added: “You’ll like our next video, for 'I Got a Feeling', because I have a little girl-on-girl tease section of the video. I met the girls right before we did the scene. They were beautiful. They were hot. One of them was the director’s girlfriend — so he was happy!"

Last week, Transformers actress Megan Fox revealed her bisexuality.

In an interview with Esquire magazine, she said: "I have no question in my mind about being bisexual."

However, Megan added she would only date lesbian women rather than bisexuals, saying: "I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who was bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never want to sleep with a girl who had slept with a man."

Former M*A*S*H Star Comes Out

David Ogden Stiers, who played Major Charles Winchester in “M*A*S*H,” has revealed he is gay.

In an interview with the blog Gossip-Boy.com, he said: "I am [gay]. Very proud to be so."

He said his success as a voice actor had prevented him from coming out sooner, saying he had feared his sexuality would not be well-received in the family entertainment business.

“I enjoy working and even though many have this idealistic belief that the entertainment industry and studios like Walt Disney are gay friendly, [they weren’t always],” he said.

“For the most part they are, but that doesn’t mean for them that business does not come first. It’s a matter of economics…A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming. What they might allow in a more known actor, they prefer not having to deal with in minor players.

“From the late 1980s until about seven or eight years ago, you would find certain individuals coming up to you, me, and advocating the position that since we were doing family fare that it would be best were the actors to maintain a certain palatability to parents,” Ogden Stiers said.

“These parties likely had heard rumours or harboured suspicions about me and wanted to make sure no embarrassing incidents were forthcoming.”

However, he said the problem may have been his own fears, rather than outside pressure.

“Many of my fears were in modern times self-invented. I’ve been working internally on whether they were the problem or if I just continued using them as an excuse long after the call for conservative private lives passed,” he explained.

Ogden Stiers appeared in M*A*S*H for six years, gaining two Emmy nominations. He did not appear in the show's spin-off, AfterMASH, instead playing a variety of roles.

He enjoyed a second wave of success as a voice actor, playing Cogsworth in Disney film Beauty and the Beast, along with characters in Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Merv Griffin's Sexual Relations with Rock Hudson, Marlon Brando, and All of Tinseltown

Two years ago, Merv Griffin died, leaving behind a legacy that included Wheel Of Fortune, Jeopardy, hotels, side business ventures, and more than a billion dollars. Also: speculation.

Rumors about Griffin being a big 'mo aren't new, and they weren't helped by two lawsuits (a palimony claim, and a sexual harassment charge) by two dudes in the 90s. Though dismissed, the lawsuits put Griffin on the spot, and while he never denied being gay, he didn't own it either. Now, someone else is doing it for him.

Author Darwin Porter's niche is posthumously outing celebrities. He did it for Marlon Brando. He did it for Katharine Hepburn. And now he's doing it to Griffin with Merv Griffin: a Life in the Closet. Having just hit bookstores, Porter is on a media tour — a stop that includes Cindy Adam's column.

Of Griffin, Porter says, "We met in '59 when he sang for my senior prom and the student committee paid him $500. What he made then was a far cry from the billionaire he was at the end."

But what about the sex? "He lost his virginity, to a female, that is, when Judy Garland seduced him.

His first crush was Errol Flynn, whom he saw passed out naked on a couch. His roommate a year and a half was Montgomery Clift. He lived with Roddy McDowall here at the Dakota, where he introduced Eddie Fisher to Elizabeth Taylor.

He maintained a virtual male harem and a pimp who supplied porn stars, but we don't go into his pay-for-gay guys.

We keep it to his A-list dates like Rock Hudson, whom he met through Henry Wilson, Rock's agent, and who advised him to keep his sexuality quiet. And there was a young James Dean selling his sex for cash. Plus Judy Garland's 'Meet Me in St. Louis' boy next door, Tom Drake. There was Peter Lawford, Robert Walker, Gordon Scott the then-Tarzan.

And lots about Merv's prolonged sexual tryst with Marlon Brando. There are his experiences at Liberace's all-male orgies. His first encounter, a boyhood friend he grew up with, later tried writing a book about Merv. This being an era when male actors felt homosexuality was a danger to their career, lawyers shot down that book fast."

And if that wasn't scandalous enough: "I write that friends who went to school with him in San Mateo say, when he was a young homosexual growing up, he was sexually molested" by a priest.

Of course, Porter has one thing working for him: almost no threat of litigation. Most of the folks Porter talks about and says Griffin was involved with are, like Griffin, dead. And as any law student knows, you can't libel the dead. So it doesn't matter if he calls James Dean a glorified prostitute, or Griffin a pimp. None of this has to be true for him to get a book deal without worrying about getting sued.

Of course, some part of you secretly wants this all to be real. Whores!

Marie Osmond: "Everybody Has a Right to Have Civil Rights"

Marie Osmond, whose gay daughter was just outed by the tabloids, was initially said to be a gay marriage foe based on her Mormon beliefs.

She called Los Angeles radio station KOST 103.5 to clear things up: "Everybody should have the right to share homes and finances with somebody that they care about. On those types of things, I'm very supportive. When it comes to marriage, I think that civil rights need to be for all. … One of the things that we need to be careful is that we don't create hate, because people believe certain things. And we can't make everyone become homogenized. Everybody has a right to believe what they believe. I do think everybody has a right to have civil rights. That's how I feel."

Marie Osmond Is A Little Bit Prejudice And A Little Bit Close-Minded

Marie Osmond has been keeping a little secret and the world has just found out.

Here's the scoop...

Her oldest daughter, Jessica, is a lesbian and she's been living in sin with her girlfriend in Los Angeles!

An insider told the Globe that it's Marie's "biggest heartache" because Marie always dreamed of a daughter active in the Mormon community and having grandchildren.

Jessica and her partner, who have been happily together for 3 years, consider themselves married even though it's not official.

Too bad Marie's got that Mormon hang up, because no one said that her daughter can't have children. It just requires a little more effort, which in the end produces a kid that someone actually wants to have in the world.

Pink is Bisexual

Pink finally admits to being bisexual, Pink, real name Alecia Moore, reveals she enjoys girl-on-girl action. For years, the “So What” singer has denied ever having a romance with another woman. Pink’s sexuality has often been questioned.

Pink tells News of the World: “I’m not embarrassed about being bisexual. This is who I am.”

“I speak my mind, I sing about everyday stuff such as homosexuality and sadly the homophobia that always comes with it”

Pink recently reconciled with her ex-hubby motocross rider, Carey Hart, after they separated in February last year. But Pink said: “I would also be just as happy with a new women. I’m not complicated, I sing about love in all its shapes, forms and colors.”

Top Gun's Kelly McGillis "Comes Out"

Top Gun star Kelly McGillis has turned her back on men for good - reportedly confirming persistent rumors she is gay.

The actress been subjected to gossip about her sexuality throughout her career but she repeatedly denied speculation she was a lesbian.

But now McGillis has apparently confirmed she's shunning men in favour of a female lover.

According to Radar Online, she says, "I'm done with the man thing. I did that, I need to move on in life. That's another part of being true to yourself... that's been a challenge for me personally.

"I think that (accepting my homosexuality) was an ongoing process from the time I was about 12. I had a lot of things happened that convinced me that God was punishing me for being gay. That was a hard process."

McGillis has been wed twice and has two daughters from her marriage to Fred Tillman. The couple divorced in 2002.

British Singer Cliff Richard Finally Talks About His Sexuality

British pop icon Sir Cliff Richard says he loves keeping fans guessing about his sexuality.

Throughout his 50 years in the showbiz limelight, Sir Cliff has been surrounded by rumour and innuendo about his sexuality. And now the 68-year-old has confided how he loves to keep people guessing.

"I'm an enigma and I love it," the committed christian told BBC TV's religious program Songs of Praise. "I love that after all these years they still don't think they know everything about me.

"I know but I don't care, that's the thing."

Sir Cliff's remarks come after he detailed his close friendship with a former Catholic priest John McElynn in his autobiography released in September. In the book, the pop singer described McElynn as his "companion" and revealed they lived together.

During his TV interview, Sir Cliff said the statements in his book about his support for same-sex relationships had been interpreted by some readers as being about his own sexuality.

"I was trying to be very philosophical about a lot of things, including same-sex relationships," he told the BBC. "There have been changes within my faith, I was at one time quite judgmental."