Hollywoods closet still closed for business

From Driscollwiki

Gross, L. (2008) "Hollywoods closet still closed for business." Truthdig.com, November 26. Retrieved from: http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/page4/20081126_hollywoods_closet_still_closed_for_business

• Quoting Angelina Jolie: "In my father's generation, the product was 80 per cent of what you were putting in the world, and your personal life was 20 per cent. [Now it's the opposite.]" (6)
• Quoting Neal Gabler: "People value being entertained less than they value knowing about entertainment and entertainers. Knowing about the stars is an end in itself." (6-7)

Glass closet

• For out aspiring stars today, the question is whether or not to return to the closet
  • (or the in-public "glass closet") (7)

Reality and gay participants

Gay people appear in nearly all reality shows...

• Real world
• Survivor
• An American Family

Exception: American Idol

No agents

• Producers of reality programming don't deal w/ agents (11)