When actor Jamie Lee Curtis mounted the stage Thursday night to receive an Advocate of the Year Award from The Advocate, she delivered a direct and damning message to anti-LGBTQ+ lawmakers, according to a Hollywood Reporter report.
"Freedom is the goal for all LGBTQ+IA human beings," Curtis said.
Curtis went on to share what she felt were her responsibilities to two daughters, one of whom came out as trans in 2021.
"As their mother, it is my job to help protect them," Curtis said. "This is what you do when you’re a parent: you suit up and you show up with your heart open and your arms outstretched and your aim, true. Your job is to tell the haters to back the f--- off.”
Curtis went on to say how she plans to use her career to uplifting marginalized communities as she does for Ruby.
"I honor her courage … As a woman in recovery, I know only too well that the truth will set you free. Freedom is the goal for all LGBTQ+IA human beings.”
“My love for both of my daughters is absolute. It has never wavered, and it will never waver," Curtis said.
“I pray that the homophobia and transphobia that is being championed in the name of religion by the right is exposed and silenced as wrong by the love of humanity that is the center of our gay and out trans community."
Read more at The Hollywood Reporter.
