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Ellen Philpotts-Page //
“For a long while, I was afraid to come out. It had to do with my career and what I was told — that, basically, I shouldn’t. At 20, it was clear to me that my life had changed. I was discovering who I was. When I was ready to do it, which was recently, I knew that it was because I was done feeling I couldn’t be myself. I was done feeling worried and afraid about it, done having to be in relationships and keeping them hidden. I felt guilty for not being there for the LGBT community. There’s been a lot of progress but there’s still suffering, abuse and inequality. So I came out. It is painful, really toxic, not to be able to express who you are. You think of how 40 percent of homeless youth in America are LGBT youth. That is a staggering statistic. You think of the depression and suicide rates, the struggles — it affects you in a way that is really unfair. It absolutely needs to change.” 
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