I think Foster is awesome with extra awesome sauce on top - and to the poster who didn't know anything she's done how about Contact? Little Man Tate? Panic Room? Home for the Holidays (best family holiday film ever)? Did we mention Taxi Driver, The Accused and Silence of the Lambs?! - but I don't get the 'she came out!' thing.
Aside from that it's never really been a secret, she 'came out' to about this same extent years ago, when she mentioned by name and defined relationship, her ex (who was then current I think), at an awards show.
As to that article - as one of the people he quotes notes, she never pretended to be anything she was not. She didn't hide her relationship, she just felt no need to go making public pronouncements about what sex she's most attracted to and that's not, last I checked, required.
His Gibson thing is ridiculous as well. I mean am I really meant to believe that though she has quite clearly and publically disagreed with things he's said and apparently believes, she hasn't stopped being personal friends with someone she's been close friends with for decades, she's putting her children at 'risk?' Of him yelling at them in some ridiculous tirade, no less. I'm so sure she'd allow that and he'd engage in it. I have no doubt Gibson is a fucking jackhole with issues. He also spent decades working with sets of hundreds of people without making fatal enemies out of them all, so he can clearly go an hour without screaming at random people for no reason.
Also, given her specific and special circumstance - that continues to this day, as Hinckley is both mostly free and still demonstrably interested in her - whatever she feels the need to do or not do w/re privacy, she gets a free fucking pass, as far as I'm concerned, on explaining it to anyone.