The star of 'Teen Wolf' and 'The Batman' applauded the LGBTQ community's resilience as he was honored with the 2020 GLSEN Gamechanger Award.
Gamechanger Award in a virtual ceremony. In a poignant speech, he recalled spending much of his youth fearing his sexuality would bring about “something swift and terrible” even as he received support from family.
“There was just this abiding sense that school wasn’t safe,” the 31-year-old said in the speech, viewable below. “I recognize now that that thing I was so afraid of, the thing I was sort of running from and trying to manage, was my own shame.” “LGBTQ kids really suffer from the shaming they interject on the internet, often at school and sadly sometimes at home, and it affects them for the rest of their lives,” he continued. “But I believe LGBTQ people are resilient and in some ways particularly special. I think we seem inherently capable at thinking compassionately, acting courageously, working creatively and living in community. But those essential qualities can really only emerge in an affirmative, safe and encouraging environment.
In his Monday speech, he said he’d hoped sharing the “simple wonderful fact of who I was” would encourage others to live as their authentic selves, too. “It was my hope that by writing this post and sharing why I’d arrived at the decision to come out professionally that some young person out there could feel the change that I felt was coming,” he said. “The change we all hope for and work for and wait for in our lives as LGBTQ folks.”
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