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goo  ·  3415 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: When, if ever, is outing somebody newsworthy?

I'm not sure. I feel like your first example is pretty vengeful - almost in a, "Ha! He's a homophobic dick, of course he's gay!" kind of way. Maybe that's why people find it newsworthy: they buy into that.

Being publicly gay is still not completely accepted in Western society, specifically the American media side of things. So while I would say that it shouldn't be newsworthy, it still totally is. Whether or not that's a good thing, I'm not entirely sure of yet.