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Ellen DeGeneres has 34 Emmy Awards and a Presidential Medal of Freedom to her name. Her talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, ran for nearly 20 years. But back in 1997, DeGeneres was starring in the sitcom Ellen – when she made a historic decision. To come out as gay. Becoming the first openly gay star of a television show. But what came next, even her critics couldn’t have predicted.
It’s quite the story. Hope you’ll join us.
Major sources for this episode include:
TIME Magazine: “Television: Roll Over, Ward Cleaver”
TIME Magazine: “Read the ‘Yep, I’m Gay’ Ellen DeGeneres Interview From 1997”
Netflix: My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman: “Ellen DeGeneres”
NY Times: “The ‘Ellen’ Striptease”
Newsweek: “‘Ellen Steps Out’: How We Covered Ellen DeGeneres’s Coming Out in 1997”
Tulane University: Ellen DeGeneres’ 2009 Commencement Speech
Podcast: Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard (Ellen DeGeneres)
NY Times: “Come Out. Come Down. Come Back. Being Ellen”
The Telegraph: “Ellen DeGeneres: ‘Finding Nemo – and Dory – saved my life'”
Writer & Host: Sidney Hirst-O’Reilly
Executive Producer & Co-Host: Terry O’Reilly
Researcher & Series Producer: Allison Pinches
Director: Callie O’Reilly
Engineer: Geoff Devine
Theme music: Ian Lefeuvre & Ari Posner
Tunes provided by APM Music
This show is brought to you by the Apostrophe Podcast Network and powered by Acast.
Ellen DeGeneres has 34 Emmy Awards and a Presidential Medal of Freedom to her name. Her talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, ran for nearly 20 years. But back in 1997, DeGeneres was starring in the sitcom Ellen – when she made a historic decision. To come out as gay. Becoming the first openly gay star of a television show. But what came next, even her critics couldn’t have predicted.
It’s quite the story. Hope you’ll join us.
Major sources for this episode include:
TIME Magazine: “Television: Roll Over, Ward Cleaver”
TIME Magazine: “Read the ‘Yep, I’m Gay’ Ellen DeGeneres Interview From 1997”
Netflix: My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman: “Ellen DeGeneres”
NY Times: “The ‘Ellen’ Striptease”
Newsweek: “‘Ellen Steps Out’: How We Covered Ellen DeGeneres’s Coming Out in 1997”
Tulane University: Ellen DeGeneres’ 2009 Commencement Speech
Podcast: Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard (Ellen DeGeneres)
NY Times: “Come Out. Come Down. Come Back. Being Ellen”
The Telegraph: “Ellen DeGeneres: ‘Finding Nemo – and Dory – saved my life'”
Writer & Host: Sidney Hirst-O’Reilly
Executive Producer & Co-Host: Terry O’Reilly
Researcher & Series Producer: Allison Pinches
Director: Callie O’Reilly
Engineer: Geoff Devine
Theme music: Ian Lefeuvre & Ari Posner
Tunes provided by APM Music
This show is brought to you by the Apostrophe Podcast Network and powered by Acast.