“Ghost” screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin is “happily gay” after coming out at 81

This profile is part of Queerty’s 2024 Out For Good series, recognizing public figures who’ve had the courage to come out and make a difference in the past year, in celebration of National Coming Out Day on October 11.

Name: Bruce Joel Rubin, 81

Bio: If you asked Rubin, the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind the 1990 classic Ghost, where to begin, he’d tell you in the sandbox when he was five. According to the Michigan native, a “spiritual experience” allowed him to see “infinite galaxies” and sense “the entire universe,” realizing instantly that “he was one with all there was.”

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