I suspected Oprah might be gay long before I had even heard of Gayle King. It wasn't her relationship with Gayle that I thought was weird and undefinable. In fact, I think that extremely close platonic freindship between women is assumed to be the norm. It was her relationship with STEDMAN that I thought was weird. The conclusion that I (and apparently many others) came to is: maybe they're both gay. Only then did I wonder who her girlfriend might be if she really were gay. Because she repeatedly said Gayle was her bestfriend, Gayle seemed like the most likely prospect.
