Unlike Paulson, she was out and proud of being lesbian and not afraid of showing up with her girlfriend.

Unlike Stewart and Delevgne she is a lesbian.

Ellen Degeneres sadly is too old for now and she is no longer proud and out everywhere, like she was before. She helped me a lot in my time, tho. I dislike her as a person, but I am grateful to her for being out and proud 20 years ago.

About Pergolizzi I am hearing for the first time, asked around, seems no one know her as well, and finding info that she is lesbian or not is even harder, as she seems to not be out about it at all. And seems she is 52 years old, but saying she is 39, what is pretty weird, but I don't really care about age, for younger lesbians that will matter a lot, tho.

Ellen was a good role model, because she came out loudly and in spite of being casted out of many roles and ruining her career, she said "if it will cost me my career, then be it, I will not be silent", she was proud and was not trying to be very feminine, just casual looking, showing to young lesbians that you can be successful as a lesbian, that you can be proud and out, that it is normal and fine to be like that, that you don't need to be too feminine looking to be respected. Plus she is very short, like me, so she is looking 10 years older than taller women (I am looking like 15-20 years younger, mid 30s, but everyone thinks I am a teen and asking passport when I am buying alcohol). So young lesbians were worshiping her. She started staring in LGB-friendly shows as well and was trying to play lesbians or bisexual women and demanding on making her characters to be lesbians in shows and movies, so we were getting more representation. Having more lesbian characters in movies and TV series, played by a proud lesbian actress - that part was good for us, lesbians in general. Plus she was not one of those, who were "how gay I am", she was just loving women and only women, that's it.

It is really sad that she married on abusive TRA woman (or is she a woman anymore? She was very deep into gender politics, as they are both Canadian, and there this all on insane levels of propaganda, and was saying that her gender is not to disclosure, so most likely it is not "woman", but something else). Fem months after marriage, Ellen stopped being always smiling and happy woman and became very depressed, plus she is close to 35 years, and not "very famous and sexy" women stars at Hollywood are stopping getting any leading roles around this age. SO I suppose she is in abusive relationship, as it made her depressed, many speculating that it is her TRA wife who forced her to came out as "not a woman" (she not came out as a man, just "he/they, anything but a woman").

why must be young

For teen girls (especially gnc lesbians) it always matters, because they are all rebelly and anti-grown ups, so yeah.