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Ellen DeGeneres’s complicated legacy: Part one

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The Gay Community

In an interview with jack shepherd, ellen looked back on that time. She said everybody assumed i was just non stop talking about it. It hurt my feelings. I was getting jokes made at my expense on every late night show. Some people in the gay community actually even came after the show. People like elton john said publicly at the time about ellen, shut up. Just be funny. You know, my sexuality is not such a big deal to me.

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