Okay, Oprah is gay.  She doesn’t want to steal Ellen’s thunder by being another gay woman on a talk show - Ellen’s got that.  Oprah did the black woman thing.  She already owns that one. Now that she is the richest woman in the world and probably the richest African American...ever, she’s changing gears.  She’s going off air to live her life a little more discretely, but still keep doing all the stuff she has grown into as a philanthropist.  Just ‘cause she’s gay doesn’t mean her heart is going to change.  She’s going to keep building schools, encouraging writers, publishing now, probably produce a movie or two.  Go Oprah with your gay self.