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Book Review: 'Rainer on Film' EW on 'The New Art of Coming Out': Blink and You'll Miss It; Remembering DeGeneres' 1997 Outing
From Mark Harris' "The New Art of Coming Out" in this week's EW:
"That new blink-and-you’ll-miss-it style is an important hallmark of changing times. Fifteen years further into the evolution of gay equality than DeGeneres was, Parsons could make his decision with the comfort of near certainty that The Big Bang Theory, which just ended its fifth season as TV’s most watched comedy, wouldn’t even feel a ratings twitch as a result. He could also be confident that he wouldn’t have to carry the rainbow flag for an entire profession.
"But the approach Parsons took was also about changing tactics—a strategic shift for an era in which confessionalism has been replaced by a kind of well-choreographed offhandedness. Quinto came out publicly last October in the middle of a New York magazine profile just by using the four words "as a gay man." Bomer did it by thanking his partner, veteran publicist Simon Halls, and their children while accepting an award.
"So although the drip drip-drip steadiness of coming- out news can seem inconsequential, cumulatively the stories serve as the very quiet herald of a major tectonic shift. What was impossible 60 years ago and dangerous 40 years ago and difficult 20 years ago is now becoming no big deal."
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