Page & Daniel toured the globe in search of queer culture
Ellen Page’s latest project Gaycation, on Viceland series has exposed her to some of the harder experiences the LGBTQ has to face worldwide. She and her best friend, Ian Daniel, explore queer cultures. Speaking to the Huffington Post‘s Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani last week, Page told of the of defeat she felt while filming, speaking with “sweet, lovely lovely” people who are fundamentally against LGBT rights.
“The unfortunate part of it is when we’re talking to that family, I do believe I say, ‘You’re such lovely people and you’ve welcomed us here but I know you look at me and your belief is that there’s something wrong with me,’ and that’s hard.
It’s hard when you really try and pour your heart out and ask, ‘Just why does it affect you or bother you so much if I was to want to marry my girlfriend someday?,’ And it is hard when you … don’t feel like there’s an ability to connect.
When you meet someone who’s had acid thrown on them, or a [homeless] girl we met who, this is in Jamaica, … had been shot days before. Or interviewing a mother who’s lost a child to a hate crime. Those are moments, absolutely, where you feel a sense of despair.”
Daniel, the show’s co-host explained the difficult dichotomy they felt with people who may be “preaching love” but acting with prejudice.
“We’re just experiencing a wall sometimes. It’s like the energy seems loving but the language and what they’re actually saying is unloving and it’s unaccepting and I just think you’re always going to have that.”
Page said she stays optimistic thinking about how far America has come.
“I hope that it, absolutely, will change and if we look at the progress that’s happened in this country, it’s been unbelievable. So I think that makes me feel optimistic. That’s what I think I hold onto and thanks to, obviously, all the extraordinary people who’ve fought for equality.”
The struggle IS real, and Gaycation is a testament to that. Check it out on Viceland. Watch the interview below.
(via Huffington Post)
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