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EXCLUSIVE: How Rachel Maddow - who came out by posting flyers in her Stanford dorm, worked as a bucket washer at a coffee factory and is a fan of monster truck rallies - became the first openly gay woman host of a prime time news show
Years before TV host Rachel Maddow climbed to the superior of prime period news charts as the first openly gay woman host, she worked her fair share of odd jobs and came out by posting flyers in her Stanford dorm.
The 46-year-old never stopped embracing her sexuality as a woman loving woman pundit and is a self-described butch with short hair and black-rimmed glasses who reads comic books, goes to monster truck rallies, loves to fish and describes herself as an 'amateur mixologist of classic cocktails'.
'I'm not a TV anchor babe. I'm a large lesbian who looks like a man', Maddow is quoted in Lisa Rogak's book, Rachel Maddow: A Biography, to be published by Thomas Dunne Books on January 7, 2020.
The author details Maddow's rise to success, from creature a bucket washer at a coffee bean factory, to becoming a Rhodes scholar with a doctorate from Oxford and landing her Emmy Award-winning prime age gig on MSNBC.
Rachel Maddow, 46, is the first openly gay wom
Maddow describes self-identifying as a lesbian as "a process, not a 'wham-bam thing' or a 'divine revelation,'" and explains that while she had previously had positive romantic relationships with men, "'It just didn't really click with me.'" After overcoming fears that being homosexual "would ruin her whole life" with the realization that the kind of future her sexuality would preclude was not one that she wanted, Maddow incorporated her lesbianism into her feeling of her hold identity.
At this show, Maddow had intellectually and philosophically decided that she was a lesbian. Maddow describes being out as a very political, "anti-assimilationist" remark. "I don't wish to be perceived as something I'm not," she said about the shared assumption that she is heterosexual. "So I have to go out of my way and make a statement."
Maddow expressed pleasure at how accepting the Stanford community had been, but was bothered by the ways that its atmosphere of political correctness prevented an honest dialogue about homosexuality; noting her concern with "the censoring effect of politically correct attitudes on campus ... Maddow said she would prefer if people who are against homosexuality felt c
Rachel Maddow on 'when it comes to coming out'
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I was a college freshman, and I had just figured out that I was gay. I was heady with the self-importance of a 17-year-old who knows everything and is smarter than everybody—a trait that is fantastic at the moment and really hard to live with in retrospect. I decided I was going to come out of the closet in a very confrontational way. I went to Stanford University, and there was nobody else "out" in my freshman class of more than 1,000 people—which I thought was kind of crazy. So a friend who was coming out at the same time and I did an interview with the student newspaper about organism the only two gay freshmen on campus. The mistake I made was that I had not come out to my parents. I told the document, "I will do this on the condition that you will not run the piece until after this weekend, because I will go home this weekend to tell my parents, and I want them to listen it from me instead of reading it in the paper." And they ran it before the weekend, and indeed some anonymous person helpfully clipped the article and mailed it to my parents—and that's how my parents found out that I was gay.
They would have had a hard time with me coming out anyway, but this was a p