Former TV talk show host Rosie O’Donnell’s magazine Rosie is closing its doors. O’Donnell claims it is because of loss of control of the enterprise, but as Kelly Boggs says in the Baptist Press, it is more likely because the middle America moms to whom Rosie is marketed stopped buying it when O’Donnell announced she was a lesbian. The drop from as many as 750,000 copy sales a month to 200,000 came after the announcement. Boggs says most women assumed O’Donnell was straight: “Rosie was incredibly popular when she portrayed herself as mainstream and normal. Gushing about her schoolgirl crush on actor Tom Cruise and supporting women’s causes, she was a ratings superstar. As a lesbian activist bashing those who dare oppose her lifestyle choice, she is a has-been.” Boggs concludes, “Rosie’s plight underscores that much of America does not affirm homosexuality as mainstream.”
