“I almost think we don’t talk enough about how important representation is and enough about how many lives it saves and how many futures it allows for,” Elliot Page said. - NBCOUT
The 1999 comedy is about a high schooler who is sent to a gay conversion program when her parents suspect that she's a lesbian.Variety
“I for one know that without the various representation that I was able to stumble upon as a kid and a teenager — there was very little — I just don’t know if I would have made it,” he said while receiving’s Achievement Award on Sunday at the film festival’s closing night gala in Los Angeles. “I don’t know if I would have made it through the moments of isolation and loneliness and shame and self-hatred that was so extreme and powerful and all-encompassing that you could hardly see out of it.
“But I’m a Cheerleader,” a comedy released in 1999, is about a high schooler who is sent to a gay conversion program when her parents suspect her of being gay. “It’s [Outfest] and organizations like yourself that are completely changing that,” the Oscar-nominated star of"Juno" and “The Umbrella Academy” said. “And helping get stories out in the world that I know are reaching people in moments where they feel desperately alone and afraid and like they have no sense of community. And it offers somebody a lifeline. And I know that representation has done that for me.”” as a producer.
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