{"id":9351,"date":"2010-12-06T15:37:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T20:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=9351"},"modified":"2010-12-06T15:40:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T20:40:55","slug":"amber-heard-coming-out-oddly-makes-news-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/12\/06\/amber-heard-coming-out-oddly-makes-news-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Heard &#8220;Coming Out&#8221; Oddly Makes News This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pineapple Express&#8221; and &#8220;Zombieland&#8221; actress Amber Heard attended Friday&#8217;s GLAAD event with girlfriend Tasya van Ree, spurring a wave of headlines about her public &#8220;coming out&#8221; as a homosexual.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;margin-left:5px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/pictures.photo\/entertainment\/glaad-celebrates-years\/image\/10326109?term=amber+heard\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/view3.picapp.com\/pictures.photo\/image\/10326109\/glaad-celebrates-years\/glaad-celebrates-years.jpg?size=234&#038;imageId=10326109\" border=\"0\" width=\"234\" title=\"GLAAD Celebrates 25 Years Of LGBT Images In The Media - Arrivals\" height=\"380\" oncontextmenu=\"return false;\" ondrag=\"return false;\" onmousedown=\"return false;\" alt=\"LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 03: Actress Amber Heard and guest attend GLAAD Celebrates 25 Years Of LGBT Images In The Media Show on December 3, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Valerie Macon\/Getty Images)\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/\/JavaScripts\/OTIjs.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While this weekend might have represented the first time Heard publicly announced her sexuality, with much of the discussion stemming from a new AfterEllen interview in which she says, &#8220;I think GLAAD is one of the many reasons that I, as a 24-year-old, can come out,&#8221; the actress&#8217; homosexuality was not viewed as a mystery by many within the online gossip community.<\/p>\n<p>Message board discussion of her supposed involvement in a lesbian relationship dates back many months.  And, earlier this year, viral posting of risque short films starring Heard widely and clearly identified director Tasya van Ree as the actress&#8217; girlfriend.  At least one example of such posting can be found on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amber-heard.net\/2010\/09\/01\/amber-heard-death-of-me-by-tasya-van-ree\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amber Heard fansite<\/a>, which featured the &#8220;girlfriend&#8221; label as early as September 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Amber Heard had nonetheless been a top-trending web topic all day, with the 3:20PM EST Google Trends update ranking &#8216;amber heard&#8217; the 14th most-searched term on the Internet.  Though photos and videos of the very beautiful, hardly shy Heard are always popular on male-skewing celebrity websites, it is clear that the &#8220;coming out&#8221; story is driving the explosvie search interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Amber Heard &quot;Coming Out&quot; Oddly Makes News This Weekend<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Pineapple Express&quot; and &quot;Zombieland&quot; actress Amber Heard attended Friday&#039;s GLAAD event with girlfriend Tasya van Ree, spurring a wave of headlines about\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/12\/06\/amber-heard-coming-out-oddly-makes-news-this-weekend\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amber Heard &quot;Coming Out&quot; Oddly Makes News This Weekend\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;Pineapple Express&quot; and &quot;Zombieland&quot; actress Amber Heard attended Friday&#039;s GLAAD event with girlfriend Tasya van Ree, spurring a wave of headlines about\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/12\/06\/amber-heard-coming-out-oddly-makes-news-this-weekend\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-12-06T20:37:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2010-12-06T20:40:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/view3.picapp.com\/pictures.photo\/image\/10326109\/glaad-celebrates-years\/glaad-celebrates-years.jpg?size=234&imageId=10326109\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/12\/06\/amber-heard-coming-out-oddly-makes-news-this-weekend\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/12\/06\/amber-heard-coming-out-oddly-makes-news-this-weekend\/\",\"name\":\"Amber Heard \\\"Coming Out\\\" Oddly Makes News This Weekend\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-12-06T20:37:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-12-06T20:40:55+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"\\\"Pineapple Express\\\" and \\\"Zombieland\\\" actress Amber Heard attended Friday's GLAAD event with girlfriend Tasya van Ree, spurring a wave of headlines about\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/12\/06\/amber-heard-coming-out-oddly-makes-news-this-weekend\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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