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Ellen Page not amused with Queen Elizabeth II giving honor to homophobe from Northern Ireland
There are so many reasons why it’s important for famous people to come out and one of them is that they can use their celebrity to shed light on things.
Ellen Page has done just that in a Twitter rant against, of all people, Queen Elizabeth II.
The monarch has bestowed upon anti-gay Northern Irish Councillor Maurice Mills an MBE (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire).
Among the homophobic opinions shared by Mills are blaming the spread of AIDS in Africa on gay people engaging in the ‘filthy practice of sodomy.’
He also blamed 2005’s Hurricane Katrina on Southern Decadence, the annual LGBT pride festival held in New Orleans.
A furious Page reacted to the inclusion of Mills with this tweet: ‘The Queen honored a politician who blamed Hurricane Katrina & AIDS on LGBT people’ (…) fuck that.’
Page, whose film credits include Juno and Inception, came out publicly as a lesbian last year.
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howard says:
Not only is she a good role model, but she’s a wonderful actress!
Richard V says:
Well, this very poor judgment just goes to show that it is time for the Queen to step aside and let William take the reins.
The people in her employ should have informed her of the opinions coming out of his pie hole. They don’t seem to care that she hangs herself, step down.