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The social network site reveals a lot more about you than you know - or might want others to know - about you.

The National Enquirer claims a family insider told the publication that Joe Simpson, Jessica Simpson’s father and manager, split from his wife because he is gay, allegations the family did not pointedly deny to People magazine.

The Wall Street Journal reports that two students from a Texas university were outed due to a loophole in Facebook’s privacy settings, which greatly upset the young adult’s fathers.

Food Network personality Ted Allen outed the station’s star chef Anne Burrell on a radio talk show this week. Although the cook’s rep says she was fine with the announcement a source tells the media a different story.

Mayor Greg Davis (R) of Mississippi’s third largest city has been undergoing an investigation for spending taxpayers’ money on unapproved expenses, including a $67 purchase at a gay sex store.

A middle school student in Utah outed himself for a school project. School officials stepped in and talked to his parents who did not know that he was gay.

The recent outing of the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate from Illinois has raised questions about the methods used by Mike Rogers, who has made a career from such disclosures, as well as the wider question of whether being gay is an ’accusation’ at all.

Some GLBTs think that closeted gay officials should be outed. Some on the right think so too--though for reasons of their own. The issue has been brought to light in the strange case of two GOP Senatorial candidates, one of whom has "accused" the other of being gay.

When, if ever, is it acceptable to "out" closeted politicians? An openly lesbian politician in South Carolina stumbled into the controversy with "off the record" remarks concerning three prominent SC pols.