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Maddow describes self-identifying as a lesbian as "a process, not a 'wham-bam thing' or a 'divine revelation,'" and explains that while she had previously had positive romantic relationships with men, "'It just didn't really click with me.'" After overcoming fears that being gay "would wreck her whole life" with the realization that the kind of future her sexuality would preclude was not one that she wanted, Maddow incorporated her lesbianism into her feeling of her own identity.

At this point, Maddow had intellectually and philosophically decided that she was a lesbian. Maddow describes creature out as a very political, "anti-assimilationist" statement. "I don't want to be perceived as something I'm not," she said about the common assumption that she is heterosexual. "So I have to depart out of my way and make a statement."

Maddow expressed pleasure at how accepting the Stanford group had been, but was bothered by the ways that its atmosphere of political correctness prevented an honest dialogue about homosexuality; noting her concern with "the censoring effect of politically correct

I was a college freshman, and I had just figured out that I was gay. I was heady with the self-importance of a year-old who knows everything and is smarter than everybody—a trait that is great at the moment and really hard to live with in retrospect. I decided I was going to come out of the closet in a very confrontational way. I went to Stanford University, and there was nobody else "out" in my freshman class of more than 1, people—which I consideration was kind of crazy. So a friend who was coming out at the same day and I did an interview with the student newspaper about being the only two queer freshmen on campus. The mistake I made was that I had not come out to my parents. I told the manuscript, "I will carry out this on the condition that you will not dash the piece until after this weekend, because I will go home this weekend to say my parents, and I want them to hear it from me instead of reading it in the paper." And they ran it before the weekend, and indeed some anonymous person helpfully clipped the article and mailed it to my parents—and that's how my parents start ou

Rachel Maddow Explains How She Handles Gay Rights on Her Show

How Rachel Maddow handles gay rights on her show.

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As an openly gay host of a primetime news program, Rachel Maddow knows she has a ready-made platform on the issue of queer rights. But the MSNBC host says she doesn’t let her own sexual identity dictate her editorial choices on issues love same-sex marriage.

Maddow recently sat down with Jacob Weisberg for the latest interview in our ongoing series "Conversations With Slate." Here’s the third installment.

Look out for one more excerpt from the Maddow interview in the days ahead, along with an audio podcast of the entire conversation.