Rosie O'Donnell Steps Out with New Girlfriend
By David Caplan
Wednesday December 30, 2009 03:10 PM EST
Rosie O'Donnell and Tracy Kachtick-Anders
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The comedian and former TV talk show host � who in mid-November
revealed that her longtime partner Kelli Carpenter moved out of their
home two years ago � is now dating Tracy Kachtick-Anders, a
Texas-based artist, O'Donnell's rep confirms to PEOPLE.
The pair were spotted walking hand-in-hand in Miami Beach on Tuesday.
Last month, when asked if she was enjoying the single life, O'Donnell,
47, told PEOPLE, "I'm not. But on we grow, so to speak."
And in October, in an interview with Examiner.com, Kachtick-Anders
said, "Maybe for a future plan, I'd like a date with an inspiring
woman!"
Like O'Donnell, Kachtick-Anders is active in lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender parenting and adoption issues. She launched Open Arms
Campaign, a non-profit organization to recruit and foster adoptive
families that targets the LGBT community. "I have become an activist
and work to educate everyone, not only about the plight of foster
children," she wrote on TheRainbowBabies.com, "but also the inequality
that faces LGBT people in their quest to create families."
Kachtick-Anders has six children, five of whom are adopted, according
to the Examiner.com.
O'Donnell, meanwhile, is gearing up for the airing on HBO in late
January of A Family Is A Family Is A Family: A Rosie O'Donnell
Celebration, a documentary that challenges the traditional ideas of
family.
Aerial photographs are planned for the event..
I hope they have a wide lense.