When 17-Year-Old Rachel Maddow Came Out Publicly In Her College Newspaper — buzzfeed.com

In early 1990s, a young Rachel Maddow was a student at Stanford University who had just figured out that she was gay in a Stanford freshman class that had nearly-zero out students. “I decided I was going to come out in a very confrontational way,” Maddow wrote in a Newsweek article in 2012. “So a friend who was coming out at the same time and I did and interview with the student newspaper about being the only two gay freshman on campus.”

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