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I've got a whole hour. >> i don't think you can overstate what was at stake for ellen degeneres in terms of coming out. she'd had a fantastic career as a stand-up. she was having not just a tv but film career at the time. >> this pressure cooker had been just mounting, and her show really was what blew the lid off of it. >> susan, i'm gay. >> it was an incredibly pivotal moment in television when ellen morgan, ellen degeneres' character, came out. and it coincided with ellen degeneres' own coming out, which was a brave thing to do when you're the lead of a sitcom. >> if it wasn't difficult, i ...

>> but conservative and religious organizations objected to the idea of a gay person coming out on national television. >> oh, paige, you wild, impetuous fool. >> the abc sitcom "ellen" is being canceled just one year after the main character came out as a lesbian. >> in "entertainment weekly," you said you were dropped or fired basically because i'm gay. is that a correct quote? >> i believe that because the show was so gay, yes. >> the fact that the show didn't continue must have been extremely traumatic and hard on her. >> ellen was driven out of the industry for a while after that episode....

Being canceled just one year after the main character came out as a lesbian. >> in entertainment weekly, you said you were dropped or fired basically because i'm gay. is that a correct quote? >> i believe that because the show was so gay, yes. >> the fact that the show didn't continue must have been extremely traumatic and hard on her. >> ellen was driven out of the industry for a while after that episode. so there was a backlash. >> i think that threatened to put a chill on development of any more shows with gay characters because you could always find an executive who'd say, look what happen...

Really was what -- >> susan, i'm gay. >> it was an incredibly pivotal moment in television when ellen morgan, ellen degeneres's character, came out. and it coincided with ellen degeneres's own coming out, which was a brave thing to do when you're the lead of a sitcom. >> if it wasn't difficult, i would have done it a long time ago, and everybody else who's closeted who's in this business would do it. >> it really became a national event. >> that felt so great, and it felt so loud. >> she must have felt a huge relief. >> i mean she was us. she was america, but she just was gay. >> but conservat...

>> susan, i gay. >> ellen morgan came out coincide with ellen's character. >> if tfrs not difficult, i would have done it a long time ago. >> it became a national event. >> it felt so great and loud. >> she must have felt a huge relief. >> i mean she was us. she was america but she just was gay. >> organizations objected to the idea of a gay person coming out on national television. >> sitcom "ellen" is being cancelled after one year the character came out as a gay less