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The actress Ellen Page, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her breakout performance as a pregnant teenager in the 2007 movie Juno, has long been the subject of rumors that she is gay. Her coming out on Friday evening at the gay rights advocacy organization Human Rights Campaign’s THRIVE conference could have followed a formula that’s become common: a celebrity confirms what everyone suspects already, usually in a well-orchestrated roll-out on a cover of a magazine, and the meets with a decidedly muted reaction. Maybe we’re happy for them that they’re able to stop doing the logistical work of hiding in plain sight. But for the most part, we’re on to the next story.
Page did something rather different in her speech in Las Vegas, drawing a clear connection not just between being closeted and her own mental health, but between the closet and other standards that Hollywood places on young actors, particularly women–and that it communicates to the rest of us:
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