Actress Cynthia Nixon joined HuffPost Live Monday to discuss her new film James White. During the interview, Nixon shared details about the upcoming play she is directing, Steve, and commented on the progress and future of the LGBT community.
Nixon: “[Steve is] also about the identity crisis of the gay rights movement… It’s like, wow, we’ve come so far so fast after being on the outside for so long, and now what? … Of course you fight for these rights and you fight for the right to assimilate if you want to, but then once the door’s open it’s like, wow, do I really want to go in there? Do LGBT people still retain their culture and retain their identity if we just get absorbed into the mainstream?”
On the current state of the LGBT community:
Nixon: “I certainly think for the LGBT community, certainly trans stuff is an enormous thing right now. And I think how many LGBT kids we have living on the street and doing sex work I think that’s the AIDS crisis of this generation. It’s kind of a secret crisis that we’ve got to do much better at even acknowledging, much less doing something about it… It’s also trying to figure out who we are now, because, wow, you turn around and the world looks different than it did.”
Watch the full HuffPost Live interview with actress Cynthia Nixon here.
The tragic existence of homeless LGBTQ youth is the very definition of man’s inhumanity to man, and there is no time for complacency in not only bringing attention to the lives they are forced to endure but effecting positive change for them.
In researching my indie film, A Place Called Home, to my shock and horror, I learned that 1 homeless LGBTQ youth dies in the streets every 4 hours. 6 die each day. I learned they feel safer trading sex for food and a place to sleep than staying in a shelter where they are often physically abused – even by the shelter staff – and are often forced to leave when their sexuality becomes known.
For more such as the negative impact of their inability to obtain state issued id and to read Adrian’s heartwrenching open letter to his mother who constantly threatened to kill her 13-year old gay son visit facebook.com/apchthemovie. Otherwise, I could go on for days about the harsh reality of their lives.