Wicked star Cynthia Erivo has delivered a powerful speech whilst accepting her award at the GLAAD Media Awards this week. Accepting the Stephen F. Kolzak Award the bisexual star took the opportunity to speak up for the non-binary community.
Cynthia Erivo receives the Stephen F. Kolzak Award at GLAAD Media Awards At the GLAAD Media Awards on Thursday Cynthia Erivo was presented with the Stephen F. Kolzak Award for her work promoting the LGBTQIA+ community.
The award “is presented to a LGBTQ media professional who has made a significant difference in raising visibility and promoting acceptance of LGBTQ people and issues” said GLAAD . “It is named in honor of the Los Angeles casting director who devoted the last part of his life to fighting homophobia and HIV stigma within the entertainment industry.” A post shared by GLAAD (@glaad) Taking to the stage at the awards ceremony Erivo used her time on stage to deliver a powerful speech supporting the non-binary community.
“This has been a wild, wild ride, and I’ve been deeply grateful for every second of it. But more than anything, I have seen and felt how open-armed my community has been” she began. “I have spoken about being your whole self and your true self, I speak about the prizes that come from being you against the odds, but rarely do I acknowledge how hard that can be.
So I thought that I would make some room for those of us who are trying to find the courage to exist as we want. Because I think this is the .
