The star was honored at Outfest on Thursday for his directorial debut 'Anything's Possible', and after declaring 'fuck SCOTUS,' used his time on stage to call for political action: 'What will you do and who will you be? This is the moment, right now.'
Looking ahead, he said the liberal messaging has to change, and after winning marriage equality and some civil rights victories — along with the election of Barack Obama — “we all sat on our asses and ate bonbons for eight years, and then the unthinkable happened. We’re a part of it too.”
“Our 24-hour news cycle has forgotten to illuminate that the reason the pushback is so severe in this moment is because the change has already happened. We’re already here — look at me, look at this movie, look at y’all,” he said. “A celebration of trans joy centering a Black, empowered, transgender high school senior who gets the cutest Arab Muslim boyfriend and has the audacity to demand respect for her humanity.
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