Words by Andre Kettle
“I really needed this,” Anne Hathaway said as she accepted the National Equality Award at the Human Rights Campaign’s National Dinner.
Over the weekend she told an audience that she was recently been frightened by the hatred of LGBT folks that extremist spew – but a speech by former vice president Joe Biden did go a long way to help restore her faith.
“I think I’m probably walking around like most people right now. I’m pretty shell shocked by what I see every day, what I hear every day. And I really don’t like to admit this, but I get scared. “
Hathaway said she felt better after hearing speeches from others such as HRC’s President Chad Griffin, who spoke earlier in the evening.
The actress explained that it was when she spent time with the community of LBGTQ – her older brother is gay – that she learned to reject this myth.“It is important to acknowledge 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,” she said.
“That myth is that gayness orbits around straightness, transgender orbits around cisgender, and that all races orbit around whiteness.”
Anne Hathaway was introduced by her Ocean’s 8 co-star, Awkwafina, who then called the Academy Award winning actress a “friend and sister.”
