Actress Kelly McGillis has described
herself as an LGBT activist.
In an interview with Smashing
Interviews to promote director Jim Mickle's horror-drama film We
Are What We Are, McGillis, who came out lesbian in 2009 and
entered a civil union in New Jersey with sales executive Melanie Leis
the following year, was asked whether she would call herself “a
LGBT advocate or activist?”
“Yes I would,” McGillis
replied. “I wouldn't say I'm into militant activism. I think
being an activist means being willing to be who you are in any social
situation and allow people to get to know you as a person as opposed
to a label. That's how I would describe my activism.”
“I don't run around telling people
what they should be thinking. I believe people have every right in
the world to make up their own minds and their own decision without
my help,” she added.
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