The stars are stepping out for the 2022 GLAAD Media Awards!
Kacey Musgraves, Christina Ricci, and JoJo Siwa were among the many stars in attendance at the annual awards event held on Saturday night (April 2) at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The GLAAD Media Awards honor the media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues.
During the show, Kacey was honored with the Vanguard Award while Michaela Jae Rodriguez was honored with the Stephen F. Kolzak Award.
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In a virtual interview this week with Netflix Film Club, the filmmaker, who directed the movie with sister Lana, confirmed the speculation about the true meaning of the flicks.
“I’m glad that it has gotten out that that was the original intention,” she shared. “But the world wasn’t quite ready for it — the corporate world wasn’t ready for it.”
Lilly adds, “I’m glad that people are talking about the Matrix movies with a trans narrative; I love how meaningful those films are to trans people, and the way that they come up to me and say ‘these movies saved my life.’”
“I’m grateful to be able to throw them a rope to help them on their journey.”
Lilly went on, saying that “The Matrix stuff was all about the desire for transformation — but it was all coming from a closeted point of view” and even revealed that the character of Switch, was originally meant to be male in the real world but female inside the Matrix.
“That’s both where our head spaces were,” she said.
Watch the full interview below:
If you missed it, Lilly also revealed that the movies were born out of a lot of rage. See more here…
During the conversation, Lilly said the movie was born out of “rage.”
“[The Matrix was] born out of a lot of anger and a lot of rage, and it’s rage at capitalism and corporatized structure and forms of oppression. [The] bubbling, seething rage within me was about my own oppression, that I [was forcing] myself to remain in the closet,” she said.
If you don’t know, Lilly came out as transgender following the film’s release.
“Now that I’m out and a living example of someone who can grow old being a trans woman, [trans people] can see those films through the lens of my transness and their transness. They’re able to go, ‘Oh my God, these films were such an important part of my coming out and my own journey.’ I’m extraordinarily grateful that I could offer that to people.”
Lilly Wachowski is calling out both Elon Musk and first daughter Ivanka Trump for using a reference to The Matrix and relating it to the coronavirus pandemic.
It started when Elon tweeted “Take the red pill 🌹,” and Ivanka retweeted his post, adding, “Taken”.
If you’ve seen the movie, you know that Morpheus tells Neo that he’s been living in a computer simulation and offers him two choices – the blue pill, which will let him go back to his life and forget about everything; or the red pill, which let’s Neo learn the truth about the Matrix and the fake reality.
Lilly wasn’t happy with the two referencing the movie that she helped to create.
“F*** both of you,” she responded to the tweets.
Later on though, Lilly turned the viral reaction into a call to action, and asked those retweeting on their own to donate to Brave Space Alliance.
Lilly Wachowski, formerly known as Andy, is introducing herself to the world after coming out as transgender!
The 48-year-old filmmaker is one half of the Wachowski siblings duo and her sister Lana, 50, came out as transgender in 2012 after living as a woman for the previous twelve years. The duo director the three The Matrix movies, as well as 2012′s Cloud Atlas and 2015′s Jupiter Ascending.
Lilly came out in an eloquent essay in the Windy City Times just one day after she says a reporter from the Daily Mail showed up at her house and pressured her into giving him an interview and photo.
“I’m out to my friends and family. Most people at work know too. Everyone is cool with it. Yes, thanks to my fabulous sister they’ve done it before, but also because they’re fantastic people. Without the love and support of my wife and friends and family I would not be where I am today,” she continued.
Second Wachowski filmmaker sibling comes out as trans, Lilly releases statement to Windy City Timeshttp://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Second-Wachowski-filmmaker-sibling-comes-out-as-trans-/54509.html
