Jane Fonda supported LGBTQ rights in a powerful 1979 interview

[hunter]

2. My family was Hollywood.

I grew up in a safe space.

But it was still a don't-ask-don't-tell closet, larger and roomier than most, but still a closet.

There could be a same sex couple, friends of my parents or grandparents, smooching on our sofa, but that stuff never left our house and we knew it.

My own life in 1979 was extremely fucked up by these kinds of secrets.

Maybe one of the worst days of my life was when my girlfriend's girlfriend tried to kill herself in my bathtub.

Or a childhood friend who killed himself because he was gay in a religion that couldn't accept that.

Or friends who died of AIDS while Ronald Reagan laughed.