Meredith Baxter

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Meredith Baxter, a star of the 1980's sitcom "Family Ties", said on Wednesday she was a lesbian as media reports and published photos of her and a woman embracing began to surface in public. Baxter, 62, told NBC's "The Today Show" that she discovered she was gay seven years ago, several years after her divorce to her third husband. She said her five children, who range from ages 25 to 42, supported her when she told them. "I am a lesbian, and it was a later-in-life... Read Full Story

Getty Images Meredith Baxter clearly wasn't trying to hide her sexual orientation too much, since she was spotted on a gay cruise recently. Still, she put an end to the rumors this morning when she appeared on the Today show to confirm that she is, in fact, a lesbian. She said, "I want to say I'm a lesbian, and it was a later-in-life recognition." Meredith with the Family Ties crew (Igoo.com) Baxter, who's best known for her role as mom Elyse Keaton on the TV show Family Ties , has been... Read Full Story

Meredith Baxter , memorable as the mom on Family Ties , bravely stepped out of the closet, revealing earlier this week on Today that she’s a lesbian . And now another famous gay celebrity, Rosie O’Donnell , tells OK ! she was right there to support her friend during the whole process. “I called her up and told her she was fantastic and congratulations and she did really well and that I was proud of her,” Rosie reveals to OK !. “We had a little chat, and it was lovely, because I fell in... Read Full Story

  The first person to laud Meredith Baxter for her decision to come out publicly as a lesbian is her TV husband, Michael Gross. "She's one of my favorite people in the world, and I'm just thrilled that it's no longer a secret, and that's about the size of it," says Gross, who played the dad on the 1980s sitcom Family Ties . "I'm just thrilled this has happened because now my wife and I don't have to hide this from everybody we know. Occasionally people will say to us, 'Hey, Michael, you... Read Full Story

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — While Meredith Baxter shared with the world Wednesday that she's been a lesbian for seven years, her longtime Family Ties costar, Michael Gross, says the Today Show revelation certainly wasn't a shocker to him. "As far as I'm concerned it was pretty old news," Gross, who starred as Baxter's husband on the hit '80s sitcom, tells People . The 62-year-old actor said he and his wife, Elza, have known about Baxter's sexuality for years, having last seen each other at a... Read Full Story

Some have reacted with a shrug to the coming out of Meredith Baxter at age 62. She hasn't been in the Hollywood lime light for years, but she is still well known to many and overall, I congratulate her on taking this action. The reality is that the more that we all come out, the more the lies and stereotypes are destroyed . Some have asked me how she could possibly not have known she was gay as she went through three marriages and had five children. My response is that one can go to great... Read Full Story

So much for the long held dream of the Matt-Man. For years, from the time I was five and until yesterday at the ripe old age of 44 I have held many desires. My one desire which topped the others with a fire and hunger that raged more than Rosie O’Donnell being set on fire at an All-You-Can Eat biscuit and gravy buffet? My wish to love, live, and lay with in complete and utter sweaty carnal rapaciousness with Meredith Baxter. Alas, she has burst my bubble and my fantasy fueled hard-on by... Read Full Story

I used to watch Family Ties when I was a kid, but I don’t remember much about it beyond Alex P. Keaton’s conservatism and how I thought Justine Bateman was, like, the coolest thing ever. I never paid much attention to the parents. But I should have! Because Meredith Baxter just came out of the closet, and she’s getting a hell of lot more interesting . Apparently, Baxter has been married three times, she’s a recovering alcoholic (she’s been sober for 19 years), she’s a mom to five adult... Read Full Story

Meredith Baxter Birney, who has five kids from three marriages, went on The Today Show this morning too announce that she is lesbian. Meredith didn’t think it was a big deal. She only wanted to announce it after being under pressure from tabloids like The National Enquirer who recently printed pictures of her and her partner on a lesbian cruise. Meredith, who played Mrs. Keaton, Michael J. Fox’s mom on Family Ties , says she discovered herself seven years ago. Four years ago she... Read Full Story

Best known for her work on the comedy Family Ties actress Meredith Baxter came out this morning on The Today Show. On Family Ties, Baxter played Elyse Keaton, the loveable mother of Michael J. Fox and was apart of the iconic TV moms that shaped American culture in the 1980s. Baxter happy and confident at 62 Now, at 62, the formerly married mother of five is shaping culture in a different way. It is so important that people hear the stories of lesbian women’s lives and her story serves as... Read Full Story