Sara Ramirez, who stars in Grey’s Anatomy has come out as bisexual.
Speaking at the True Colors Fund’s 40 to None Summit in Los Angeles Saturday Ramirez described herself as a “queer, bisexual” woman.
“So many of our youth experiencing homelessness are youth whose lives touch on many intersections – whether they be gender identity, gender expression, race, class, sexual orientation, religion, citizenship status,” she said in her speech. “Because of the intersections that exist in my own life: woman, multi-racial woman, woman of color, queer, bisexual, Mexican-Irish American, immigrant, and raised by families heavily rooted in Catholicism on both my Mexican and Irish sides, I am deeply invested in projects that allow our youth’s voices to be heard.”
According to the Huffington Post her decision to come out publicly at the event was a “very organic and natural” one.
“It made sense for me at this time as it was one piece of a larger context I was communicating,” she told HuffPost. “Our most marginalized youth touch on many intersections, and in describing the concept of inter sectionalities, I decided to describe the ones that exist in my own life.”
Watch Sara Ramirez’s speech above.
