Sports Illustrated may have landed Jason Collins for his coming out story but it is Oprah Winfrey who managed to get his family together for a joint interview.

Winfrey's chat with the first openly gay active player in NBA history, his parents, twin brother, sister-in-law and aunt for Oprah's Next Chapter which will air Sunday (5 May) on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Winfrey asked parents Paul and Portia Collins if when their son came out to them last summer if there was 'a releasing of the dream ... of who he would be walking down the aisle with.'

Nate Berkus, who lost his partner in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, has found love again and is getting married.

Berkus confirmed today that he is marrying Jeremiah Brent, his boyfriend of more than a year.

Berkus, 41, proposed to Brent on Monday (8 April). The couple then celebrated atop the famed Machu Picchu in Peru where they are vacationing with friends.

Ellen DeGeneres showed her serious side to Australian talk show host Tracy Grimshaw in an interview broadcast on Monday night.

The usually light-hearted TV presenter and actress talked frankly about the dip in her career after she came out publicly in 1997.

Soon after she came out on The Oprah Winfrey Show, DeGeneres' sit com Ellen was cancelled.

Nate Berkus became a familiar face to viewers of The Oprah Winfrey Show more than a decade ago as an interior designer who was a frequent guest on the show.

But it wasn't until December 2004 that his personal life became a lot more public. He and his partner, photographer Fernando Bengoechea were vacationing at a beach resort in Sri Lanka when the Indian Ocean tsunami hit. While Berkus survived, Bengoechea went missing and is presumed dead.

Berkus appeared on Winfrey's daytime show a month later to talk about his ordeal and the loss of his love.

Design star Nate Berkus, who first came to fame on The Oprah Winfrey Show, has reunited with his television mentor for a candid conversation that includes how he came out to his father.

Berkus tells Winfrey in the first of a two-part interview that begins airing on her OWN Network on Sunday (3/10) about the first conversation he had with his father about his being a gay man.

Says Berkus: 'I asked my father: 'Do you trust me? Do you respect me? Do you think I'm smart?' He said, 'Yes.''

Whitney Houston’s mother has told Oprah she ‘absolutely’ would have been bothered if the singer had been lesbian.

Cissy Houston was promoting her new book, Remembering Whitney, on Oprah’s Next Chapter show.

The book touches on Whitney’s friendship with Robyn Crawford, her friend who she described as ‘the sister I never had’.

Rumors about their relationship circulated both before and after Houston’s death, with many claiming they were a couple.

What does a gay N’Sync boyband singer have in common with a disgraced cyclist who won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times?

They both have shocking confessions to make.

In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong confirmed he had used performance-enhancing drugs to win the races that made him famous.

He revealed he did not feel like he was cheating at the time, viewed it as a ‘level playing field’, and he was a ‘bully’ who ‘turned on’ people he did not like.

But what could Lance Bass do to top that?

Sally Field guests on Oprah's Next Chapter Sunday (2 December) and talks to host Oprah Winfrey about being the mother of a gay son.

The acclaimed actress, winner of two Oscars and three Emmys, received the Human Rights Campaign's Ally for Equality Award last month in Washington DC and was introduced by her gay son, Sam Greisman.

Anderson Cooper's foray into daytime television is shaping up to be more like the short run of Nate Berkus than the extended stay of Ellen DeGeneres.

The openly gay CNN newsman's show, Anderson Live, is still early in its second season but it was announced on Monday (29 October) that it will not be returning for a third year.

Home design guru Nate Berkus says his new book, The Things That Matter, was not supposed to be a memoir. But he couldn't help but share part about himself as he wrote about his and other people's homes.

After a video of Jason Russell in a nude rant at a San Diego intersection went viral, there was immediate speculation online that the KONY 2012 filmmaker was gay.

So when Russell appeared on Oprah's Next Chapter on the OWN network Sunday (7 September), host Oprah Winfrey asked Russell if he is gay.

Oprah Winfrey may be an Oscar-nominated actress, the talk show queen has taken on very few roles since she made a splash in 1985's The Color Purple.

One of the acting roles she did take on was as a therapist in a 1997 landmark episode of Ellen in which the lead character played by Ellen DeGeneres comes out as a lesbian.

Winfrey now reveals that after she appeared in the episode, which won an Emmy for its writing, the backlash quickly began.