Jamie Lee Curtis says closeted politicians who push an anti-LGBT agenda should be outed
Jamie Lee Curtis visits the SiruiusXM studios at SiriusXM Hollywood Studio on November 25, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Emma McIntyre/Getty)
Jamie Lee Curtis has said that gay politicians who hide their sexuality while attacking LGBT rights should be outed.
In an interview with Pride Source, the Halloween star said that she believes that most people have a right to keep their sexuality private, unless they attack LGBT+ rights.
Sexuality is nobody’s business unless you push anti-gay legislation.
She said: “I don’t think it’s anybody’s business what people’s sexuality is, to be perfectly honest. I find it like a reverse discrimination.”
“People’s private lives are their private lives and whether I’ve ever kissed a girl – have not – is irrelevant to whatever advocacy I participate in.
“[It’s] sort of destructive cocktail party fodder what people’s sexuality is, [because it’s] nobody’s business, it doesn’t matter.”
Curtis added: “[Unless] you legislate anti-gay legislation but are gay. I fully accept outing those people for the hypocrisy.”
She did not name anyone, so it’s unclear if there was one politician in particular she had in mind.
Jamie Lee Curtis did not specify the politician she was talking about. ( SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Jamie Lee Curtis is making a film about woman who goes to gay weddings as a ‘stand-in’ mum.
In the interview, Curtis also confirmed that “the final script” is in development for her film about an Oklahoma woman who stands in for absent mums at gay weddings.
It was revealed in January that Curtis has bought the rights to Sara Cunningham’s 2014 memoir, How We Sleep at Night, which tells the story of how she came to terms with her son’s sexuality.
At the time, Curtis told The Washington Post: “I continue to be thrilled as her movement is catching on. I hope to do justice to her story and the story of so many marginalised people in the LGBTQ community.”
Cunningham is the founder of US non-profit Free Mom Hugs, an organisation that is “all about Moms who love LGBTQ+ kids.”
