Charlie Carver is the recipient of this year’s GLSEN Gamechanger Award. GLSEN, the nation’s leading organization working to create safe and inclusive schools for LGBTQ students, usually hands out t…
GLSEN, the nation’s leading organization working to create safe and inclusive schools for LGBTQ students, usually hands out the honor at its annual New York Respect Awards gala in the spring, but the 2020 program has been shifted to a week of virtual fundraising events called Respect Everywhere.
“I always knew I wanted to do something with my life that might help young people in their relationship to shame,” Carver said in his acceptance speech posted on. “I didn’t want spectacle. I just wanted to reveal this part of myself in a kind of way I wish I’d been able to share all those years ago in school as a simple wonderful fact of who I was.
“There was just this abiding sense that school wasn’t safe or more than anything, if I let my guard down and if I fully relaxed into a state of belonging that something swift and terrible would come and find me,” he said. “And I recognize now that that thing I was so afraid of, the thing I was sort of running from and trying to manage, was my own shame.”
Several of Carver’s co-stars from the upcoming Netflix movie adaptation of Broadway’s “The Boys in the Band” presented him with the award, including Jim Parsons, Matt Bomer, Zachary Quinto, Andrew Rannells, Robin de Jesús, Tuc Watkins, Brian Hutchison and Michael Benjamin Washington.
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