Goofy And Ellen

September, 1997

Along with those 100 percent pious, straight and morally perfect Southern Baptists, I was shocked this past spring when stand-up comedian Ellen DeGeneres came out as a gay woman (came out in real life, that is, along with Ellen Morgan, her character on Ellen, a mediocre sitcom on Disney-owned ABC).Having had no clue that Ellen was anything but a heterosexual woman with a great lust for men (and having developed an enormous crush on her), I started going to group therapy with several male friends...