Coming Out of the Conservative Closet

Charles Winecoff, a TV writer and author, talks about how coming out as a conservative was tougher than coming out as a gay man.

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Gay and Leaving the Left

By: Jamie Glazov

FrontPageMagazine.com

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Charles Winecoff, a TV writer, entertainment journalist, and author of Anthony Perkins: Split Image, the definitive biography of the Psycho star.

A native New Yorker and avowed, lifelong Democrat, Winecoff never lived anywhere besides Manhattan and L.A.

But like many people, 9/11 sent him on what he has termed “an inner journey that was by turns painful, scary, and eye-opening.”

Recently, he came out as a non-Leftist on Andrew Breitbart's new website, Big Hollywood, with the essay "The Awakening of a Dumb (Gay) American."

Winecoff compares his experience coming out of the conservative closet in the 21st century with coming out as a gay man in the 1970s.