On Friday, Could 2nd, GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis appeared on ABC’s The View. The section began with Pleasure Behar sharing that The View was proud to simply accept the GLAAD Media Award for Excellent Selection or Speak Present Episode on the thirty sixth Annual GLAAD Media Awards.
The episode, premiering in July of 2024 featured a robust interview with trans actor Elliot Web page from Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy. Their dialog ranged from Web page’s character on the present, his memoir Pageboy, and the file excessive variety of anti-LGBTQ items of laws being handed on this nation and what allies can do to assist. Watch the total section right here:
Ellis offered hosts Behar, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin with the award and shared a bit in regards to the GLAAD Media Awards. “We do that yearly and we acknowledge folks throughout all media who’re telling LGBTQ tales, as a result of it’s extra necessary than ever.” She continued, “You gained within the Excellent Speak Present and Selection class on your interview with Elliot Web page on trans visibility.”
She congratulated your complete solid and crew and thanked them for bringing such necessary tales to thousands and thousands of televisions nationwide. That is The View’s second GLAAD Media Award win and ninth nomination.
“Meaning a lot to us collectively proper now within the occasions that we’re dwelling,” Ana Navarro mentioned. “You’ve been the president and CEO of GLAAD for over 10 years and also you had been a media government earlier than that. So, you understand a factor or two about illustration.” Navarro continued, “Are you able to speak about why it’s so necessary for all of us to proceed shining a lightweight on the LGBTQ neighborhood, significantly now?”
“As you’ll be able to inform in society proper now, the LGBTQ neighborhood has been below assault,” Ellis responded. “LGBTQ persons are in each household, we’re in each office, we’re in each church, and telling tales brings folks collectively. It doesn’t separate and divide folks.”
Ellis went on to say, “All of us should be handled with respect and humanity and have equal rights and we don’t nonetheless on this nation. So, I feel by storytelling, we carry folks collectively. You’ll be able to’t hate somebody whose story you understand.”
Sara Haines reminded everybody that, “We’re all human souls.” She then started discussing the passing of Pope Francis and his constructive influence on the LGBTQ neighborhood. “I perceive you bought to fulfill him twice, what was it like to talk to him?”
“He was an outstanding, phenomenal particular person. He wished to listen to our tales,” Ellis started. “One time I informed him the story about how my spouse and I needed to depart the Catholic Church as a result of our children had been born and we couldn’t baptize them.”
She continued, “He put his head down and he mentioned ‘that’s not proper.’ Then very quickly after is when he introduced that same-sex {couples} must be blessed. Tales have energy.”
In 2024, Ellis was invited to go to Pope Francis a second time to speak about transgender points. “For that 2nd go to, I introduced 4 transgender folks with me as a result of he hadn’t sat down and heard trans tales.” Ellis continued, “He was moved by these tales.”
Ellis then defined that on the finish of each assembly with the Pope, he palms out gendered rosary beads. She was moved by the truth that, “He gave the transgender of us the gender that they’re dwelling. And to me what it signaled is that if the Pope can acknowledge them for who they’re, why can’t the remainder of the world?”
To shut, Ellis thanked The View group once more for all they do to raise LGBTQ tales within the mainstream media.”I simply wish to say that what you utilize this desk to do is a superb bridge builder, so thanks a lot. And thanks for telling these tales.
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