Marcia Homosexual Harden to Moms Who Don’t Settle for Their LGBTQ Youngsters: ‘You’re Making a Nice Huge Mistake’

Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden provided impassioned — and at instances, hilarious — recommendation for folks who don’t settle for their queer kids whereas being honored on the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s A Place We Name Residence gala.

“We want to change things so that basic human queer rights are protected, so that we’re safe, so our children are safe, so that we have equal opportunity in the workplace, so that we’re not discriminated against, so we can marry or adopt children or serve in the military or church…I think it all starts in the home,” Harden mentioned. “The people I need to talk to tonight are old, staunch, stubborn families.”

She continued, “Families who don’t accept the queer community, and because I also believe that mothers are the real vanguards of change and the torchbearers for community, it is mothers that I’m talking to tonight.”

All three of Harden’s kids, Eulala, Hudson and Julitta, determine as a part of the LGBTQ group.

“If you’ve not welcomed the queer community into your life, either as friends or should you be so lucky, your children, you are cutting off your nose to spite your face,” Harden mentioned. “You’re missing out on a fabulous life experience and basically you’re making a great big mistake.”

Harden was offered with the Vanguard Award by her “Code Black” co-star Harry Ford.

“Saying to your children, you can’t be you and live in my home or be in my family, you are losing out because they won’t come home for Christmas,” Harden mentioned.

After which she cracked, “Honey, you haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen a lesbian stuff a Thanksgiving turkey. No one chooses the holiday decorations for the Christmas party faster than a gay man…And should your ex happen to show up at that same Christmas party with his girlfriend or perhaps the new wife, the queers will be the first to tell you that you are serving cunt.”

The gala, which occurred Saturday night time on the grounds of the LGBT Middle in Hollywood, raised $1.25 million.

“To these mothers, I say join us, march with us, help us protect your child, help us protect their rights, be an ally,” Harden mentioned. “Your life will likely be terribly enhanced and open up great new doorways and new experiences for you.

“So instead of telling young people all across the country that who they are is somehow wrong or they are undeserving of dignity, join us in pointing out that what other people see as faults or cracks is simply where the light gets in,” she added.

The night time’s program additionally included longtime group activist and heart board member LuAnn Boylan being offered with the Rand Schrader Award by Billie Jean King and her spouse Ilana Kloss.

Bianca Del Rio hosted the festivities. Mayor Karen Bass offered the middle with an award “in recognition of the amazing work that goes on here and the lives that are saved every single day.”

Middle CEO Joe Hollendoner spoke of the political assaults on the queer group. “These assaults on our community are not just defining moments for the center or our movement. They are defining moments for each of us,” he mentioned. “As I see it, we’ve two paths ahead: Both we select to cede our hard-won progress in our struggle for liberation, pleasure, and group or…we select braveness.

“We choose integrity,” he continued. “We choose to do what’s right. The Los Angels LGBT Center will always choose to lead with our values, and I know we can count on you to do the same.”