Stars and Their Gay Brothers!

Michael, who works as Anne’s assistant, made headlines last year when he reportedly made a failed attempt to retrieve some nude photos of the Brokeback Mountain star from the storage locker of her shady financier ex, Raffaello Follieri; the FBI, investigating Follieri for fraud, supposedly beat Michael to the locker by a single day.

Anne Hathaway speech on receiving HRC Award

Marc Matlin (Brother of Marlee Matlin)

When Marlee Matlin took the role of a lesbian on The L Word, she was already very familiar with what it meant to be gay thanks to her brother, Marc. “Nothing surprised me about the issues in the script,” she told Curve magazine. “I know how it feels to be thought of as 'different' as a deaf person, and I also know my brother's experience. No one should tell us who we should be with or shouldn't be with.”

Marc lives in suburban Chicago with his partner Jay.

Marlee Matlin

Curtis Ingraham (Brother of Laura Ingraham)

Many people are surprised to learn that noxious radio talk show host (and regular O’Reilly Factor guest host) Laura Ingraham has a gay brother, Curtis, with whom she is reportedly close. Jeffrey Hart, a faculty advisor who knew Ingraham at Dartmouth, once wrote that back then she held "the most extreme anti-homosexual views imaginable." But after witnessing her brother’s partner’s struggle with HIV, Ingraham wrote about a change of heart in a 1996 essay in the Washington Post.

Laura Ingraham

"In the ten years since I learned my brother Curtis was gay, my views and rhetoric about homosexuality have been tempered, because I have seen him and his companion, Richard, lead their lives with dignity, fidelity and courage," she wrote. Curtis’ struggles to be with his partner in the hospital — he was allowed access only after claiming to be his “caretaker” — even made Ingraham consider the importance of same-sex marriage. "Knowing what they had been through together made it sound antiseptic, almost an insult," Ingraham wrote.

Curtis Ingraham with late lover Ricky Smith

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