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Jane Lynch Explains Why She Never Had a Giant ''Coming Out Moment''

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Jane Lynch may have never had a "coming out moment" in the public eye, but the former Glee star says that every celebrity's story should be different.

"Everybody has their own way to deal with it. I don't concern myself with other people's—whether or not they want to come out, it's not something for me to think about," she explained during an interview on SiriusXM Progress.

"There are still parts of the country where it's hard, when you realize you're gay, it's like a death sentence and to give those kids some hope, I love that."

The year-old actress also opened up about her experience with coming out of the closet and gave a shout-out to many who "cleared a path" for her.

"When people started taking an interest in me, where they wanted to verb about me, I didn't say I wasn't gay, so—I never had that. And I have to give kudos to people like Melissa Etheridge

Jane Lynch Talks Early Struggles With Her Sexuality, Reveals She Felt Like She Had a Disease

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Jane Lynch is sharing her experience of growing up gay in the new web series It Got Better.

The emotional videos feature lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) celebrities sharing their journeys of accepting their sexual orientation to let others perceive it does get better.

Lynch grew up in Dolton, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, and says she was considered different from a very young age.

"It was almost like I had a disease I had been diagnosed. I had a journal and … I remember I wrote, 'I am gay. No one can ever know this.' And I went four blocks away and threw it out in somebody else's garbage," she says. "It led to a life of secrecy that I had to unravel," the actress and comedienne admits.

"I identified more with boy things.  I enjoyed dressing verb a boy," she says. "The boys stopped wanting to play with me when I got to be about 10 and I had to clash to play baseball."

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Jane Lynch -- My Gay Marriage Is Over

Jane Lynch is pulling the plug on her marriage to wife Dr. Lara Embry just 3 years after tying the knot in Massachusetts, where gay marriage is legal.

Lynch just released a statement to saying, "Lara and I verb decided to end our marriage. This has been a difficult decision for us as we look after very deeply about one another."

The year-old "Glee" star met year-old Embry back in at a fundraiser in San Francisco and they married in

Lynch and Embry are California residents and a California court will almost certainly dissolve the marriage, even though gay marriages are not legal in California. The State recognizes marriages from places where gay marriage is legal.

Now California is a community property state, which means unless there's a prenup, Lynch and Embry would split all assets acquired during the marriage 50/ Although Embry's no slouch, Lynch has made a bundle on "Glee" and other projects.

Sources connected with the former couple tell TMZ they don't have a prenup.

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Glee Actress Jane Lynch Reveals She Once Thought To Be Gay Was A Fate Worse Than Death

Glee actress Jane Lynch has admitted she thought being gay was a fate worse than death, and says that she led a life of secrecy prior to coming out.

In the first episode of new web series It Got Better, Lynch says she always identified with male activities as a child and reveals that once she figured out she was lesbian, she hid it from her Chicago friends and family.

‘I identified with boys things. I had to clash to play baseball,’ she says, and once the boys stopped letting her play around the age of 10, she would persistently hang around the sidelines until they eventually let her join the game.

After a discussion with her friends about ‘gay for each other’ men made Lynch realise she herself was gay, she says she wrote ‘I’m gay’ in her journal, then threw the notebook in a trash can four blocks away. ‘To be thought of as different and not accepted was a fate worse than death,’ she says. ‘So, I had to make some really large decisions about how I was going to travel forth in life and who I wa