John Barrowman, The Making of Me (2008)
I’m going to try and explain why this really shook me, and I’ll probably fail, but here goes: John’s very secure in his sexuality. He’s known he was gay since he was eight, and he grew up in a loving, supportive family. Yet he still fears that if he’d stayed in a country where homosexuality was illegal for most of the first part of his life, that he wouldn’t have survived.
And that’s why equal rights are so important.
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#but people still say their ‘opinion’ that gays are disgusting and should be criminalized #is not harmful at all if a man like John Barrowman whose entire existence has been one big happy ball of sunshine #that he has shared with the world believes he would have killed himself if he could not BE himself then what about all the others? #these things fucking matter hate is harmful it’s deadly your ‘opinion’ is shit (via @momentsofweakness)
#this is seriously startling #this should give people a clue #John is always so out there and open and himself#he’s so full of life and energy #but seeing this and finding out what it was like in his home country and for him to admit what might have happened to him if he’d stayed #is disturbing #i’ve never seen such a sincerely serious look on his face before when he wasn’t acting #because he’s always smiling and always utterly himself #that this look of shock and disgust and worry on his face really just…hits you in the chest #that’s how serious this shit is and how important it is (via madamelokiofasgard )