Ellen DeGeneres made history when, in 1997, to confirm the rumors that he was gay, and he did it in an episode of the hit ABC Ellen In one episode, widely reported in April of 1997, the character of Ellen, DeGeneres, Morgan came out of the closet with a Mask, following the revelation of a television, appearing on the cover of the TIME under holder, the “yes, Yes, I’m gay.”
The movement of the Mask and was accompanied by a violent reaction. For a station affiliate of ABC in Birmingham, Alabama, she refused to show the episode, and the goal is to assign the Mask, even endured threats to her life by a star next to it. The televangelist Jerry Falwell called DeGeneres “Ellen DeGenerate”, in the response to the episode, DeGeneres said in a TIME the interview, “the serious one, and he called me like that? Like Ellen DeGenerate? I have been getting in the fourth grade. I think that I am happy to be able to give you a job.” DeGeneres has also called on the country to see their sexuality as a lure. “I mean, I can understand the curiosity and I understand the not understand it,” he said, and added, “But let’s go beyond this and allow me to tell you to go back to what I’m doing. Maybe you’ll find something even greater than you do.” more later in the afternoon. Maybe I will become black.
Up to the present day, the episode is still viewed as a point-of-Hollywood-without-limits, and significant controversy for the Mask, they would be accused of a certain drama is less instructive in the course of the following decades.
