I just read a piece on Advocate.com about Jodie Foster's speech at the Women In Entertainment breakfast where she thanked her partner Cydney publicly for the first time. I feel compelled to remind the writer that I broke the story in the LA Daily News in print and on Out In Hollywood online and it was immediately picked up from there from such widely-read sites as AfterEllen.com, Queerty.com, Towleroad, Defamer, Popnography.com, Variety.com, Gay.com, AfterElton.com etc.

In his piece, Advocate writer Christopher Lisotta does not acknowledge where the story originated or, more importantly, the presence of an openly gay reporter for a mainstream paper who was the only journalist in the room to go with the story.

Don't you think this is a big oversight for a story in the premiere LGBT publication?

Lisotta writes in part: Foster's December 4 comments set off a rash of media coverage, with publications from South Africa to New Zealand reporting the words, but with widely varying interpretations of what they meant. The U.K.-based website Fametastic saw the statement as a sign that Foster “may be set to publicly confirm her relationship.” Other publications went further, with The Philadelphia Daily News declaring on December 15 that Foster “has officially announced she's gay.” The British tabloid Daily Mail reported on December 12 that Foster “has finally come out as a lesbian.”

I would not have any issue with the piece had it included how the story was originally broken and the tone in which it was written. Here are a few key paragraphs from my piece:

Toward the end of her remarks, Jodie thanked those nearest and dearest to her. Among them was "my beautiful Cydney who sticks with me through all the rotten and the bliss." Since she has always been so intensely private, I was surpised at the public acknowledgement of who I presume is Cydney Bernard, the woman who is widely reported to be her partner."

I do believe that these are the two paragraohs that led to the "global headlines" Lisotta writes about.