![]() I'm going to have courage.'"Ī clipping of that article was mailed to her parents, which was how they found out she was gay. The choice was, 'I'm not going to be a hypocrite. When a reporter later asked whether the other person was her girlfriend, she said, "Funnily enough, only one other person was out, and she was not one of the many girls I was sleeping with."Īs Jill McDonough, a college friend of Maddow's, told Rolling Stone: "No one at Stanford was saying they were gay - there were no other out lesbians - and she saw that it was a lie. The university's newspaper, The Stanford Daily, published a story about it and described her as was one of two openly gay freshmen. ![]() She said she wrote the letter so that anyone who was homophobic would have a chance to be open about how they felt, and she could face any hostility head on. Her professor Debra Satz often showed her students Maddow's undergraduate thesis on changing perceptions of AIDS.Įarly on as a freshman, Maddow came out in an open letter she stuck up in bathroom stalls in her dormitory. Roger Noll, Stanford's director of public policy at the time, said Maddow was the sort of brilliant student who appeared only every few years. ![]() ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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