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How Ellen DeGeneres Helped Change The Conversation About Gays

“Ellen DeGeneres is … almost a litmus test of where we have been as a society,” says Life Science Communications professor Dietram Scheufele. “When she first came out and really put the issue of same-sex partnerships on people’s agendas, and I mean people who really wouldn’t have thought about it, I think the country was still in a very different state.”