Co-director Lana Wachowski (The Matrix Trilogy, Cloud Atlas) received the HRC’s Visibility Award at their annual gala dinner on October 20 and she gave a heartfelt speech about what it was like for her growing up transgender and at one point even contemplated suicide.
“I am here because when I was young, I wanted very badly to be a writer, I wanted to be a filmmaker, but I couldn’t find anyone like me in the world and it felt like my dreams were foreclosed simply because my gender was less typical than others. If I can be that person for someone else, then the sacrifice of my private civic life may have value. I know I am also here because of the strength and courage and love that I am blessed to receive from my wife, my family and my friends. And in this way I hope to offer their love in the form of my materiality to a project like this one started by the HRC, so that this world that we imagine in this room might be used to gain access to other rooms, to other worlds previously unimaginable.”
Since Lana is the only mainstream transsexual director in cinematic history, I hope her courage will give others a chance to try and forge a career in Hollywood as well or wherever genre of work they plan to dive into.
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