Out actor Jim Parsons has praised young
people for their inclusiveness and openness to the LGBT community.
Appearing on AM New York to
promote his latest film, A Kid Like Jake, Parsons said that he
was “moved” to see young people protesting following the Parkland
shooting.
“I was watching back in March, after
the Florida school shooting, and it was just so moving to see a
younger generation taking to the streets, on their feet, and speaking
so eloquently and passionately,” Parsons said.
“As a 45-year-old gay man, who’s
been able to be an out and working actor, I feel grateful for the
time I grew up in, but I feel like there’s a level of inclusiveness
and openness to all sorts of human beings that we’ve never seen as
a society before.”
“You get that impression that you’re
dealing with a whole generation that has grown up thinking it’s not
okay to slander people for being gay and more recently, slander
people for gender fluidity.”
“It’s a different world and it
sounds like, quite possibly, a better world,” he added.
In A Kid Like Jake, Parsons
plays a father to a son who starts to exhibit gender non-conforming
behavior.
“The movie doesn't offer any answers
or solutions, but what it does is make it okay to ask dumb questions,
to fumble with something that you don't fully understand,” Parsons
said.
A Kid Like Jake opens Friday,
June 1.
(Related: Jim
Parsons gushes about husband Todd Spiewak.)