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Patricia Arquette honours sister Alexis at GLAAD Media Awards
Actress Patricia Arquette promoted trans visibility and honoured sister Alexis at the 28th annual GLAAD Media Awards. The actress, who received a Vanguard award at the ceremony
Los Angeles: Actress Patricia Arquette promoted trans visibility and honoured sister Alexis at the 28th annual GLAAD Media Awards. The actress, who received a Vanguard award at the ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, paid a tribute to her late trans sister Alexis Arquette in her acceptance speech, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "She wanted to help move the world forward to a time in the future where every trans kid could live up to their full potential. Where it wouldn't be uncommon in your everyday life to have a doctor, a nurse, a cop, a real estate agent or a public official who is a transgender person.
"That they would get jobs, they would get hired, they would get a shot. She wanted to help move the world forward to a time when trans people were not fetishized, but to a better tomorrow when they could be seen as complete whole and equal human beings," Arquette said. The actress said thought "we've come so far," there are setbacks such as North Carolina's controversial "bathroom bill" and the Trump administration agenda, signals to push even further. "I think we're looking at a lot of political assaults right now on the LGBTQ community.
They also removed LGTBQ questions from the census and part of that reason is because they don't want to see how big the LGBTQ community was, and they don't want them to mobilize. "Donald Trump started his presidency and campaign saying he was going to be a friend of the LGBTQ community and that is not happening.
We have laws that are discriminatory that are on the books popping up everywhere," she said.
The evening celebrated fair and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community amid a hotbed of political and cultural tension playing out off-screen in real life. Oscar-winning film "Moonlight" and Torye Sivan won big at the event, which delivered major moments courtesy of an acceptance speech by "Transparent" star Alexandra Billings, a rendition of "Imagine" from Cynthia Erivo and appearances by Mary J. Blige, Jussie Smollett, Paris Jackson and Caitlyn Jenner.
