Amanda Bearse US Actress		Articles/Text Photos Add info
Amanda Bearse played Marcy on "Married with Children". She came out in the late 1990's and below is a part from an interview she did early after. "I'm in a committed relationship with another woman and we have a balance between our two careers. She is a freelance commercial producer and can to some extent arrange her schedule. We also have a nanny. I didn't want to have a child that would be raised by someone else. My partner and I spend the majority of the time with her. My coming out was sort of initiated by the tabloids finding out about the adoption of my baby daughter. They had already known about my living in a gay relationship. I gave a press conference to say that, yes there was some information that was put out there about me that I want to confirm, and I also want to confirm that I don't have any shame around being homosexual, and it doesn't affect the way I do my job. There's been an enormous positive response from the gay community, and I'm getting a lot of offers from various organizations to speak or be on panels. When I can make it count, I will. I think the more commonplace we can make people being honest about their sexuality, the better off it will be for human rights and civil rights for everyone. It would be naive of me to think there wouldn't be some negativity around it. The show has received to date several pieces of hate mail. But I consider that low number is progress."