Elvira Comes Out

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2021/9/21/elvira-cassandra-peterson-comes-out-talks-19-year-relationship

Cassandra Peterson — best known to the world as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark — released her new memoir Yours Cruelly, Elvira today and, in the process, came out by revealing her 19-year relationship with another woman, Teresa “T” Wierson.

Their relationship began, as all the best do, at the Hollywood Gold’s Gym when Peterson spotted who she thought at the time was the hottest bad boy in Tinseltown. “Often, when I was doing my preworkout warm-up on the treadmill, I couldn’t help noticing one particular trainer — tan, tattooed, and muscular — stalking across the gym floor, knit cap pulled so low over his long brown hair that it nearly covered his eyes,” she writes in the book. “Dark and brooding, he gave off such intense energy that when he crossed the enormous gym floor, the waters parted and people stopped in their tracks to stare.”

It wasn’t until they had a chance encounter in the ladies room that she realized her “bad boy” was really a “bad girl” and the two soon became close, albeit platonically.

The friendship only became romantic following the end of Peterson’s 25-year marriage to (singer turned her manager) Mark Pierson. As Peterson tells it in her book, the path to a more serious connection began with Wierson arriving at her home one rainy night, also freshly out of a relationship. “There on the doorstep stood my trainer, T, holding a trash bag full of her belongings, looking sad and bedraggled. She’d split from her longtime partner, spent some time in rehab, and now had no place to go.”

[jimmyjackezekiel]

Good for her. I admit I don't know her work very well, but I hope she is and remains happy being just who she is.

[James Fabiano]

Sept 21, 2021 18:40:18 GMT -5 jimmyjackezekiel said:

Good for her. I admit I don't know her work very well, but I hope she is and remains happy being just who she is.

And I ordered her book, in CD form, for my library collection.

[Duke Cameron]

I’m left a little unclear. Is she coming out as bisexual or homosexual?

[Feyrhausen]

Sept 21, 2021 20:12:46 GMT -5 Duke Cameron said:

I’m left a little unclear. Is she coming out as bisexual or homosexual?

She was married to a man, she has been in a relationship with a woman after that. Why label it.

[Duke Cameron]

Sept 21, 2021 20:47:02 GMT -5 Feyrhausen said:

Sept 21, 2021 20:12:46 GMT -5 Duke Cameron said:

I’m left a little unclear. Is she coming out as bisexual or homosexual?

She was married to a man, she has been in a relationship with a woman after that. Why label it.

Because I’m a detail oriented person? So much for being curious and asking a question.

[Non Banjoble Tokens]

She finally reveals that she's a vampire. Yeah, we know Elvira. It was kind of obvious.

[Glitch]

Elvira has always had a special place in my heart (mostly because my mom has the same name and it's a joke in our family). I'm glad to see she has persevered and found happiness with somebody.

[Hobby Drifter]

That her girlfriend didn’t start 19 years worth of conversations with “I’m dating Elvira” is incredible.

I bumped into Elvira at a comic book convention back in like ‘98 and told everyone I met about it for like six months.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

She’s just so likable, like a vampire Dolly Parton

[James Fabiano]

I loved when she'd be the spokeswoman for Halloween Havoc.

And I'm cool with a thread about Elvira being comfortable with herself also being a celebration of why we like her too.

[Feyrhausen]

Sept 22, 2021 0:37:12 GMT -5 Duke Cameron said:

Sept 21, 2021 20:47:02 GMT -5 Feyrhausen said:

She was married to a man, she has been in a relationship with a woman after that. Why label it.

Because I’m a detail oriented person? So much for being curious and asking a question.

sometimes there is no label for people. She may be a lesbian now and have no interest in men. She may be bisexual in a long term relationship with a woman. She may be still straight but only gay for this one person. She may not even know how she feels. If she did not define herself in her book or her statement then its not anyone elses place to do so.

[Cyno]

Sept 22, 2021 0:37:12 GMT -5 Duke Cameron said:

Sept 21, 2021 20:47:02 GMT -5 Feyrhausen said:

She was married to a man, she has been in a relationship with a woman after that. Why label it.

Because I’m a detail oriented person? So much for being curious and asking a question.

Not to be rude, but it isn't really your business unless she wants to say what she is. She might not even be able to define it herself.

[Sponsored by Groose Wipes]

Be the woman dating Elvira and not being able to brag about it.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

Sept 22, 2021 11:37:08 GMT -5 Cyno said:

Sept 22, 2021 0:37:12 GMT -5 Duke Cameron said:

Because I’m a detail oriented person? So much for being curious and asking a question.

Not to be rude, but it isn't really your business unless she wants to say what she is. She might not even be able to define it herself.

Sexuality like gender is fluid. In the end love is love. Let us celebrate when someone is in love.

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Sept 22, 2021 0:37:12 GMT -5 Duke Cameron said:

Sept 21, 2021 20:47:02 GMT -5 Feyrhausen said:

She was married to a man, she has been in a relationship with a woman after that. Why label it.

Because I’m a detail oriented person? So much for being curious and asking a question.

How dare you! She made a big deal out of coming out and you simply want clarification because it fleshes out the story better for you and you didnt ask in a way that judgmental at all! You monster!!!

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Sept 22, 2021 14:06:20 GMT -5 Vice honcho room temperature said:

Sept 22, 2021 11:37:08 GMT -5 Cyno said:

Not to be rude, but it isn't really your business unless she wants to say what she is. She might not even be able to define it herself.

Sexuality like gender is fluid. In the end love is love. Let us celebrate when someone is in love.

If that's how you are that's fine, but my gender is not the least bit fluid. Some people are gender fluid, and some are not.

But yes, love should be celebrated in any form.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

Sept 22, 2021 15:18:26 GMT -5 @therealoblivion said:

Sept 22, 2021 14:06:20 GMT -5 Vice honcho room temperature said:

Sexuality like gender is fluid. In the end love is love. Let us celebrate when someone is in love.

If that's how you are that's fine, but my gender is not the least bit fluid. Some people are gender fluid, and some are not.

But yes, love should be celebrated in any form.

Glasses of water are stable but if someone wants to or has to pour it out into another glass so be it. I mean in the end its about respecting others decisions and not placing your preconceived notions on others.

Yours might be like mine. At the moment I identify at male and am not seeking to change it. Like how you feel. But others are in questions, others have already changed or others might question later and change later.

Its all good and let us accept that.

[FinalGwen]

Happy for her that she's felt comfortable to come out, and that the reception has been universally positive. She's always felt like a queer icon, it's nice to see that she's one of us too.

[Lance Uppercut]

Sept 22, 2021 10:30:55 GMT -5 Feyrhausen said:

Sept 22, 2021 0:37:12 GMT -5 Duke Cameron said:

Because I’m a detail oriented person? So much for being curious and asking a question.

sometimes there is no label for people. She may be a lesbian now and have no interest in men. She may be bisexual in a long term relationship with a woman. She may be still straight but only gay for this one person. She may not even know how she feels. If she did not define herself in her book or her statement then its not anyone elses place to do so.

Maybe the Op just wants to know what they’re celebrating.

Congrats on being… gay?