LGBTQ people still struggle in Hollywood

I think Rupert Everett hit the nail square on the head. Hollywood is an ultra-conservative trying to pretend to be ultra-liberal. Personally, I don't care if the character is heterosexual, homosexual, transgendered, or a fuckin' ALIEN as long as their presence is part of the story. Their presence should enhance the story and move the plot along. I have no time for gratuitous sex, violence, or your little token lgbt character. I've never really liked Kristen Stewart because I feel she has the personality of a wet noodle.

In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK, actor Kristen Stewart, who has been romantically linked to model Stella Maxwell since 2017, said, “I have fully been told, ‘If you just like do yourself a favor, and don’t go out holding your girlfriend’s hand in public, you might get a Marvel movie.’ I don’t want to work with people like that.”

Stewart has said publicly she does not identify as bisexual or lesbian, and doesn’t want to choose a label for her sexuality. In the same interview she added, “I was informed by an old school mentality, which is — you want to preserve your career and your success and your productivity, and there are people in the world who don’t like you, and they don’t like that you date girls, and they don’t like that you don’t identify as a quote unquote ‘lesbian’, but you also don’t identify as a quote unquote ‘heterosexual’. And people like to know stuff, so what the fuck are you?’”

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Ellen Page Criticizes Chris Pratt's Church

I think Ellen is absolutely right to be critical of a church that superficially accepts LGBT members, while not allowing them leadership roles. Chris Pratt is very well known and I'm sure he has a lot of young, impressionable fans who will look into his personal life and get curious about this "church" that he is affiliated with. They are likely to either want to join that church, or one of it's "sister" churches or think they are okay joining a similar church.

If you've been anywhere near the internet in the last week, you'll already know that Ellen Page has been making headlines recently for calling out hate and homophobia.

Appearing on Stephen Colbert's The Late Show, Ellen made an impassioned speech about leaders who "promote hatred and intolerance". The video, which has been watched more than 15 million times, has since gone viral, with almost 90,000 retweets.

And she didn't stop there. Not long after her interview, Chris Pratt appeared on the same show to talk about his spirituality. However, Ellen clearly wasn't impressed, tweeting about his church being "infamously anti LGBTQ".

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