Elliot Page is pulling back the curtain on homophobia in Hollywood.
Page, who came out as a trans man in 2020 after identifying as a lesbian, detailed a verbal assault in 2014 by an unnamed male actor in his memoir, “Pageboy.” As part of a chapter titled “Famous Butthole at Party,” as excerpted by People magazine, Page wrote about being at a birthday party in Los Angeles where an “acquaintance” questioned his sexuality.
“You aren’t gay. That doesn’t exist. You are just afraid of men,” the actor told Page, adding, “I’m going to frick you to make you realize you aren’t gay.”
Page recalled seeing the male actor at the gym a few days later, where he said, “I don’t have a problem with gay people I swear.”
The “Juno” actor added, “I’ve had some version of that happen many times throughout my life. A lot of queer and trans people deal with it incessantly. These moments that we often like don’t talk about or we’re supposed to just brush off, when actually it’s very awful. I put that story in the book because it’s about highlighting the reality, the shit we deal with and what gets sent to us constantly, particularly in environments that are predominantly cis and heterosexual. How we navigate that world where you either have more extreme, overt moments like that. Or you have the more, like, subtle jokes.”
Page continued, “[In Hollywood] these are very powerful people. They’re the ones choosing what stories are being told and creating content for people to see all around the world.”
He summed up, “I’m purposely not sharing his name. But he will hear about this and know it’s him.”
Page recently opened up about feeling like he didn’t “exist” prior to transitioning.
“I realize I look different to people now who’ve known me from before, but I’m thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, there’s that person I’ve seen but never thought I’d actually get to see.’ It catches me by surprise sometimes,” Page said. “A friend will simply take a photo and then I get a glimpse, and it just sends this electric thrill through my body, this sort of spark. Because it’s funny — it’s seeing something new, but also not.”
He concluded, “I do feel like I barely made it in many ways.”
Very kind to not out the man who threatened to r*pe her! Maybe he's a bro after all.
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But if trans men are real men you were never a lesbian so you were actually a straight guy the whole time checkmate, cute twink.
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nobody tell the trains if you can choose your gender you can choose to be gay. just like mommy and daddy said
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A lot of trains genuinely believe that being gay is a choice, because for them, it was. I've seen that sentiment openly expressed several times in trans majority spaces. Its part of the schism between the T and the rest of the LGB.
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sounds like a schism between the "medical diagnosis" and "feels" clans of the Ts to me, any community has infinite schisms
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on one hand wtff lol
on the other hand, half of their cope centers around the neurocognitive equivalent of conversion therapy for gays or something
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Lmao what is this from
Nvm, Sleepaway Camp
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the male feminist was actually the gay one all along
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