Ellen Page takes down Trump and Pence for attacks on LGBTQ people on Colbert show
Actress Ellen Page, who is openly LGBTQ, unloaded on President Trump and Vice President Pence on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Thursday night.
“Connect the dots. If you are in a position of power and you hate people, and you want to cause suffering to them, you go through the trouble, you spend your career trying to cause suffering — what do you think is going to happen?” said Page.
“Kids are going to be abused, and they’re going to kill themselves, and people are going to be beaten on the street,” Page says after launching into a litany of Pence’s history of using government to attack the LGBTQ community.
“I am lucky to have this time and the privilege to say this. This needs to fucking stop.”
Page appeared on the Late Show to promote her new Netflix series The Umbrella Academy, according to AVClub.com. But she quickly veered off that plan.
“The actress and noted environmental and LGBTQ activist picked up on Stephen Colbert’s questions about her first anniversary with her wife, the dancer and choreographer Emma Portner, to deliver a blistering rebuke to those in positions of power—naming, naturally Donald Trump and Mike Pence,” according to this report.
“Page, indeed, has used her considerable celebrity to travel the world—for her show Gaycation—to examine how marginalized LGBTQ people are impacted by hateful bigots in positions of power. (She sat down with Brazilian politician—and now president—Jair Bolsonaro to confront one such powerful bigot about comments about ‘beating the gay out of’ children, for example.)”
Page particularly focused on Vice President Pence, Yahoo Finance reported. “The Vice President of America wishes I didn’t have the love with my wife,” Page said. “He wanted to ban that in Indiana. He believes in conversion therapy.” The audience agreed with Page as there was prolonged booing following this statement.
Page then went on to blame Pence for the recent attack on Empire star Jussie Smollett, who was the victim of a suspected racist and homophobic assault early Tuesday morning in Chicago.
“He has hurt LGBTQ people so badly as the governor of Indiana,” Page said. “And I think the thing we need to know, and I hope my show Gaycation did this in terms of connecting the dots, in terms of what happened the other day to Jussie. I don’t know him. Personally, I send all of my love, connect the dots.”
Copyright The Gayly – February 1, 2019 @ 10:40 a.m. CST.