Kate McKinnon gave a moving speech as she awarded Ellen DeGeneres with the Carol Burnett Award for Achievement in Television at the GoldenGlobes.
Awards shows aren't always known for being sites of social progress—this year alone, for example, no women were nominated in the Best Director category of the Golden Globes—but this year's speech by Kate McKinnon at the 2020 Globes was a rare and welcome standout moment for LGBTQ+ performers, and highlighted progress in Hollywood since Ellen DeGeneresMcKinnon presented DeGeneres with the Carol Burnett Award for Achievement in Television, which honors "outstanding contributions to...
“In 1997, when Ellen’s sitcom was at the height of its popularity, I was in my mother’s basement lifting weights in front of the mirror and thinking, ‘Am I…gay?’ And I was,” McKinnon said dryly, adding, "And I still am. But that’s a very scary thing to suddenly know about yourself. It’s sort of like doing 23 and Me and discovering that you have alien DNA. And the only thing that made it less scary was seeing Ellen on TV.
The speech was infused with McKinnon's signature wit—she thanked DeGeneres for passing down gifts such as "two pairs of Stan Smith sneakers"—but it was readily apparent just how profoundly DeGeneres had inspired and mentored McKinnon. "If I hadn’t seen her on TV, I would have thought, ‘I could never be on TV. They don’t let LGBTQ people be on TV.’ And more than that, I would have gone on thinking that I was an alien and that I maybe even didn’t have a right to be here.
DeGeneres is a well-known half of a powerful celebrity couple—she's been married to actress Portia De Rossi since 2008—but McKinnon's speech also captured a different facet of queer identity that isn't as frequently discussed as romantic love: friendship.
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