Anne Hathaway on Heteronormativity: We Will Not Just Question This Myth, We Will Destroy It

9 months ago
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HATHAWAY: “What I love most about this community is the way you own the alphabet.
(Cheering and Laughter)
L-G-B-T-T-Q-Q-I-A-A-P. No letter left behind.
(Applause)
No, for real, what I love about this community is the freedom; the freedom that comes with being yourself, all of yourself. I love the energy, the activism, the generosity, the light, the shade —
(Laughter)
>> The fun. I love the dignity that accompanies self-acceptance. (...) It is important to acknowledge that, with the exception of being a cisgender male, everything about how I was born has put me at the current center of a damaging and widely accepted myth. That myth is that gayness orbits around straightness, transgender orbits around cisgender, and that all races orbit around whiteness.
(Applause)
I appreciate this community so much, because it’s where I learned to reject this myth. I appreciate this community because, together, we are not just going to question this myth, we are going to destroy it.
(Cheering and Applause)
The walls built in fear will crumble, they will disintegrate. The old world will shatter and the pieces that no longer serve will melt. A new world will emerge, forged from this community, from their seis — from your seismic imperative message that love is love.”

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