These days, it seems like coming out is the fashionable thing to do for celebrities. Two more celebrities came out to the world this past week: college football player Michael Sam, and actress Ellen Page. What I found really interesting was the difference in the way people reacted to these two celebrity revelations, and what that difference says about our society. While I do think that both of these people deserve a lot of respect for having the courage to show themselves to the world, and obviously the more people in the public spotlight are out, the better for the fight for equality, I also feel like in the case of Michael Sam especially, the fact that there was so much fanfare and discussion afterward is problematic, and could even be viewed as counterproductive as far as achieving true equality.
