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The Website That Called Ellen Page A “Massive Man” Deleted Their Article Following Her Coming Out Speech

Yeah, that was probably not the best way to handle it.

by Rob Moran  17 February 2014

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Yesterday, in an emotional speech that name-checked awesome queer icons Tegan & Sara and Orange Is The New Black‘s Laverne Cox, Juno star Ellen Page nervously stood in front of about 600 counselors who work with LGBTQ youth at the Human Right Campaign’s Time To Thrive Conference in Las Vegas, and announced that she’s gay.

“Here I am, an actress, representing — at least in some sense — an industry that places crushing standards on all of us. Standards of beauty, of a good life, of success. Standards that, I hate to admit, have affected me. You have ideas planted in your head, thoughts you never had before, that tell you how you have to act, how you have to dress, and who you have to be. And I’ve been trying to push back, to be authentic, to follow my heart, but it can be hard,” began Page.

“I’m tired of hiding, and I’m tired of lying by omission,” she continued, as the audience broke into a standing ovation. “I suffered for years because I was scared to be out — my spirit suffered, my mental health suffered, and my relationships suffered… I am young, yes. But what I have learned is that love — the beauty of it, the joy of it, and yes, even the pain of it — is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being, and we deserve to experience love fully, equally, and without shame and without compromise.”

Needless to say, like everyone who was in the room, you’ll be bawling crazily and wanting to hug the crap out of the world in about 7-and-a-half minutes.

Page’s speech drew an instant response from Hollywood types on social media, with former co-stars and friends taking to Twitter to offer their support.

 

 

 

 

Meanwhile, that website that Page pointedly called out around the 3-minute mark of her speech, who ran an article asking “Why does this petite beauty insist upon dressing like a massive man?” was E! Online, who secretly deleted the January 8 article immediately after Page’s speech, as Kia Makarechi from the HuffPo discovered.

 

Well handled, E!. Maybe you should just go ahead and delete the rest of your website?