A Little Bit Gay -- Is That Like Being A Little Bit Pregnant?
Television-- Ever since "The Oprah Winfrey Show" premiered for its 21st season earlier this week, Rosie O'Donnell, co-host of ABC's "The View," has been obsessing about Oprah and best friend Gayle King's cross-country road trip and their relationship. O'Donnell declared on a recent show that Winfrey and King are a "little bit gay."
If anything, Winfrey and King are a little bit high schoolish in all their proclamations about being bestest best buddies. These protestations seem cutesy, not Sapphically driven. Before they began their cross-country trip, King made Winfrey "pinkie swear" they'd stay best friends no matter what the obstacles. And watching them on their well-staged, well-edited jaunt, you get a glimmer about the real friendship between these two. King is Winfrey's reality before Oprah became an empire. These women have known each other a very long time and are supremely comfortable just hanging out. Anyone who has a close friend over many years can relate -- gay, straight, bi, tri, or semper fi.
O'Donnell's suggestion, however, raises the spectre that "The View" could become an outing ground of daytime TV. Pity the next celeb birdie fried in Rosie's gaydar. Anyway, who cares if anybody's gay, much less "a little bit gay"? Bigfoot O'Donnell steps madly while trying to find her rhythm on the show.
