Jamie Lee Curtis is so over the hypocrisy of closeted gay politicians making anti-gay laws.
In a recent interview with PrideSource.com, the veteran actor and LGBTQ ally talked about her longstanding support of the community. Specifically, she got into the issues she takes with people always trying to figure out if famous people are queer.
“People’s private lives are their private lives and whether I’ve ever kissed a girl — have not — is irrelevant to whatever advocacy I participate in,” Curtis said, adding that she considers such speculation “destructive cocktail party fodder.”
But, from her perspective, this doesn’t apply if “you legislate anti-gay legislation but are gay. I fully accept outing those people for the hypocrisy.”
Of course, we don’t know if she’s shading anyone in particular, but it’s certainly hard to keep track of the number of politicians who vote against LGBTQ rights and subsequently get outed for trying to pick up dudes on Grindr. And where there have been some, there are bound to be many, many more.
Curtis also took time in the interview to talk about why being an ally to the LGBTQ community is important to her, partly stemming from her friendship with actor Rick Frank and his husband George Lowe, but of whom died of complications from AIDS in the ‘90s.
“That experience with both Rick and George was a galvanizing moment for me, and I have tried to honor [Rick] more than anything with trying to keep that focus,” she said.
She added: “You don’t have to have your own experience in order to feel compassion and the need for justice and equality. In the LGBTQ world, certainly I have friends and family, but I don’t have to have the direct experience in order to feel the compassion that I truly feel for acceptance and equality in all areas.”
