Oprah: ‘I am Not a Lesbian’

Wayne Besen December 08, 2010

In an upcoming ABC interview with Barbara Walters, Winfrey flat out states, “I’m not a lesbian.”

“I’m not even kind of a lesbian,” the talk show queen, 56, tells Walters. “And the reason why [the rumor] irritates me is because it means that somebody must think I’m lying. That’s No. 1. No. 2 … why would you want to hide it? That is not the way I run my life.”

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About the Author

Wayne Besen is the Founding Executive Director of Truth Wins Out and author of “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth” (Haworth, 2003). In 2010, Besen was awarded the “Visionary Award” at the Out Music Awards for organizing the American Prayer Hour, an event which shined a spotlight on the role American evangelicals played in the introduction of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.

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