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- 'JUNO' ACTRS ELLEN PAGE REVEALS SHE IS GAY
- ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ AUTHOR SAYS AMERI’S TEENS HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN HER BOOK
'JUNO' ACTRS ELLEN PAGE REVEALS SHE IS GAY
Actrs Ellen Page, who was nomated for an Osr for her role as the pregnant teenager "Juno," me out as gay Friday at a nference Las Vegas for tors and unselors who work wh gay youth, The Los Angel Tim reported. * juno gay *
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"I’m here today bee I am gay, and bee maybe I n make a difference, ” the 26-year-old actrs told hundreds of school unselors, tors and other atten at the Human Rights Campaign nference. ”The Human Rights Campaign's "Time to THRIVE" nference at Bally's Las Vegas is the first large-sle natnal nference to promote safety, cln and well-beg for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr youth, acrdg to the group's here for more om The Los Angel Tim. While most people his life have embraced his g out – first as gay, then as trans – he no longer talks to his father and grew up Halifax, Nova Stia, wh a graphic signer father and schoolteacher mother.
”Years after Hard Candy, Page nfid an actor he was workg wh that he was gay. After Page did fally e out as gay, a dnken actor told him: “I’m gog to fuck you to make you realise you aren’t gay. You’re not gay.
‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ AUTHOR SAYS AMERI’S TEENS HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN HER BOOK
By then Page was his mid-20s and, he says, most people the dtry assumed he was gay.
The same homophobia. And the same blkered argument: if the fans know you’re gay they won’t believe you when you play a heterosexual (though this is rarely the se when heterosexuals play gay characters).
It’s hardly surprisg this culture that so few gay stars have e out.