Stacy London Comes Out and Introduces Social Media to Girlfriend

What Not To Wear’s style expert Stacy London shared a heartwarming LGBTQ-friendly message on Instagram while introducing her followers to her longtime girlfriend.

After one Twitter user tweeted out photos of London and her “hot butch girlfriend,” musician Cat Yezbak, on December 21, the TV personality responded by confirming they were in a long-term relationship on Tuesday (December 31).

“Not that it’s any of your business but…,” she started the post, “I may as well address all the stuff I hear floating around out there…[T]he person most responsible for [my incredible joy] is Cat Yezbak, who is my girlfriend and has been for over a year.”

“I haven’t paraded her around on social media for several reasons: 1) I’ve had public relationships before and I don’t love that,” London continued. “But I want to be clear here that with Cat I felt I owed us the chance to be private since this is my first serious relationship with a woman and I’m sure there will be some hoo ha about that. But I would never hide her out of shame. 2.) It’s really easy for me, a privileged white woman who is 50, to suddenly say ‘I’m dating a woman’ with very few repercussions and I am well aware of that.”

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NOT THAT IT’S ANY OF YOUR BUSINESS BUT… I may as well address all the stuff I hear floating around out there. 2019 has been a crazy year for lots of reasons. This 1st year of coping with grief and a lot of unforeseen health issues was, at times, such a truly dark place to be. But as with most of life, there has been such incredible joy as well and the person most responsible for that is @catyezbak, who is my girlfriend and has been for over a year. Some of you may have guessed that already. All my friends and family know her well. I haven’t paraded her around on social media for several reasons: 1) I’ve had public relationships before and I don’t love that. But I want to be clear here that with Cat I felt I owed us the chance to be private since this is my first serious relationship with a woman and I’m sure there will be some hoo ha about that. But I would never hide her out of shame. 2.) It’s really easy for me, a privileged white woman who is 50, to suddenly say “I’m dating a woman” with very few repercussions and I am well aware of that. Unlike me, there are countless people in the LGBTQIAP community who have had no choice in who they are, no love from family on which to lean, no support from anyone anywhere. I fell in love, truly in love, with this beautiful, sexy, kind soul and I won’t apologize for that but I stand on the shoulders of a community that fought like hell for me to be able to do that openly and proudly and EASILY. It’s one thing to SAY Love is Love. It’s another thing to say Love is Passion and Devotion and Sex and mean it without shame or prejudice when talking about the same sex. So I used to date men. Now I date her. That’s it. That’s all I have to say. Happy New Year to each and every one of you. I am wishing you the best of everything this coming year. Bring it 2020. Let’s go. (AND ALSO: any awful comments will be deleted immediately. My account will not tolerate hate of any kind.)

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She went on to talk about “the countless people in the LGBTQIAP community” who don’t have the freedom to come out that she did because they have “no choice in who they are, no love from a family on which to lean, no support from anyone anywhere.”

“I stand on the shoulders of a community that fought like hell for me to be able to [love Cat] oopenly and proudly and easily,” London said. While she didn’t explicitly label her sexuality, she summed it up in ten words: “So I used to date men. Now I date her.”

London and Yezbak are the co-CEOs of Small Beautiful Things, a shop of one-of-a-kind antique gifts from the 1800s to 1980s.