For reasons I can't fathom, Meredith Baxter-Birney, best known as Elyse Keaton on the 1980 sitcom "Family Ties", had to go on the Today Show and announce her lesbianism. Is being a lesbian require an announcement, like running for President?

Baxter has been married three times and has five children. How do you manage to only realize you're a lesbian after 60 years? Perhaps more confusing is the example of Anne Heche, who is still publicly known as a Lesbian in spite of the fact that she dated men exclusively until she met Ellen Degeneres, and then returned to heterosexual relationships thereafter, marrying her cameraman, and then leaving him for a fellow actor.

Seems that lesbianism is more of a hobby that a career choice.