Yeah, when you announce to the world that you and your female partner are each getting artificially inseminated so you can start a family together, it kinda counts as “coming out.”
Except she never announced that, per se. It was known, but never because she (or her partner, Allison Adler, who is the executive producer and a co-writer on the show “Chuck”) made a specific release about it to the media.
She didn’t so much just come out. She just wasn’t in.
Talking about it in multiple interviews does count as announcing it. Hell, Roseanne has talked about Sara Gilbert being a lesbian before and how she came out to her co-workers back when she was a teen.
You can’t come out if you’re never in.
If you’re thinking this is some sort of rational thinking on my part . . . gaydar doesn’t work that way.
What an orgy that would make for 
I wonder if there’s any truth to the rumors that Johnny Galecki was the sperm donor. (Certainly it’s the only way his sperm would ever get inside her.)
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Pardon the zombification, but the subject isn’t a big enough star to warrant his own thread and if there are responses they usually go towards other gay actors anyway:
Sean Maher, best known as Dr. Simon Tam on Firefly and now on Playboy Club, has officially come out. He’s been in a relationship with his partner for 9 years and they have two kids. I knew the gay rumors about him before I knew who he was.
And he’s so fine…
I think it’s really sad that a man who has a partner of nine years, and is dedicated enough to them to have two children with them, is ashamed enough of his sexuality to hide it for this long.
Sean Maher still acts?
Yep. In fact he currently plays a closeted gay man married to a Playboy Bunny.
I suspect it has a hell of a lot more to do with fear than shame.
Same difference - if you’re secure in your sexuality you don’t need to be afraid.
Was he hiding, though? Is it hiding if no one asks?
When they said he was straight 14 years ago he didn’t correct them.
The problem is not being insecure in your sexuality, it’s being insecure in your job, your family life (the one you were born into, not the one you made), etc.
Sean Maher was out in college but then started an acting career. His agent told him to keep his mouth shut & be seen out on dates with girls. So he kept his orientation secret until the time was right.
I read about his coming out on Whedonesque; it wasn’t a deep, dark secret to his friends from Firefly & the fans posting were full of support. But there was a link to the Entertainment Tonight story that broke the news; lots of homophobic trolls posted over there…
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^ I’d been wondering where he went. How did I miss his banning?
Exactly. I can even understand his agent and manager’s points; to this day openly gay actors don’t become A-List leading men, and with Maher’s looks he was a conceivable contender for A-List status.
I was surprised when he said in the interview he had actually slept with women during his ‘confused and closeted’ acting years. That’s carrying the ruse a tad far.
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^ I’d been wondering where he went. How did I miss his banning?
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It was pretty low key. As I recall he was linking to original cartoons that he was also possibly trying to sell for money, or something like that. When confronted he wouldn’t respond, and so he was granted persona non grata status.