Though being single the media and others jump on as signs more often it they hide behide marriage and children more often than not when they "come out" there is a very sad family mess to deal with.
Exactly. They create a colossal family mess.
One was Nathan Lane (of Lion King and The Producers fame).
The universal reaction was "Nathan, bubbie, we already knew. You weren't fooling anybody." It was the funniest behind the scenes stuff I ever saw in Hollywierd and the Broadway set (I "rescued" my wife from a life on stage, but we keep up).
My problem with Ellen was not that she was gay. It was that she was only gay and no longer funny.