Meredith Baxter Comes Out

American Voices

December 4, 2009 | ISSUE 45•49

Former Family Ties actress Meredith Baxter came out as a lesbian on The Today Show. What do you think?

I've wondered ever since I saw that episode where she was wearing a flannel shirt."

Jen Savino
Systems Analyst
axter's courage has finally given me the strength to say what I have wanted to say for more than two decades now: I never really liked Family Ties."

Frank Adams
Unemployed
I think that, as more high-profile people come out as gay, there will be more opportunities to make the case for gay civil rights and convince the public at large that gay Americans deserve equal protection. Sha-la-la-laaaaaaa."

Will Duane
Smokehouse Attendant

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