Oprah: A Biography: Highlights from biographer Kitty Kelley 's newest book, Celebrities comment on whether Winfrey and best friend Gayle King are lesbian partners: •"I think they are the emotional equivalent of a gay couple," says Rosie O'Donnell, who is gay. "When they did that road trip together that's as gay as it gets and I don't mean it to be an insult either. I'm just saying listen, if you ask me, that's a gay couple." (The quote comes from O'Donnell's appearance on The Howard Stern Show in October 2009.) •Winfrey confidante and author Erica Jong adds: "I would not be surprised if Oprah is gay. If she is, she is. It certainly fits." Names Winfrey and King affectionately call each other, revealed on a Valentine's Day segment titled 'Girlfriends': •"Oprah was 'Negro,' Gayle was 'Blackie,' " Kelley writes. Is boyfriend Stedman Graham just a front, 'camouflage'? •"Her close friends argued otherwise, saying he was the grounding force of her life. Others did not care one way or the other," Kelley writes. •"Stedman is probably gay or neutral, but they have a bond. ... Her being gay would be the right reaction to the sexual abuse she says she's suffered and the mistrust she's always had of men," Winfrey's longtime friend Jong says. Winfrey had a baby boy at 15, who died one month and 8 days later: •"Oprah never talked about her lost baby," said her sister, Patricia, a drug addict who died in 2003 of an overdose. "It was a deep family secret that was almost never discussed within the family." •"Everybody in the family sort of shoved it under a rock," Winfrey told Ebony. "Because I had already been involved in sexual promiscuity they thought if anything happened it had to be my fault and because I couldn't definitely say that he (her uncle Trent) was the father, the issue became 'Is he the father?' Not the abuse." Winfrey's falling-outs with friends on the set of The Color Purple: •"She forged strong friendships on the set, but few survived the passage of time," Kelley writes. She "fell out" with Whoopi Goldberg, "tangled" with screenwriter Akosua Busia, "pulled away" from Alice Walker and "offended" Steven Spielberg. Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. Read more