Is pam grier gay

Low-budget, quickly shot, and unprecedented in their creation of a strong, black, frankly bad-ass female hero, the films created a lasting, tough-chick persona for Grier. While her star may have faded somewhat during the s, her Quentin-Tarantino-created comeback, Jackie Brown, cemented her place in the cream of the cultural crop.

So you may expect a certain amount of urban grit and attitude when settling in for a chat with Grier.

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Grier will be in D. Even though she hit bottom, she has supported her lesbian sister, Bette, played by Jennifer Beals. You should be entitled to love whomever you wish. Some people feel that you can go back and forth —there could be a straight woman and a lesbian woman who just happen to have an unbelievable crush on one another because they like each other for their issues, their spontaneity, their lives, their beliefs, their education, their brains — how would they be able to have a relationship?

Has that been your experience? What was it about you or your persona that gay that attention? Not every actress gets that kind of gay allegiance. In our communities we did, but it was never reflected pam screen. MW: You stood out a lot during those earlier days because that type of character was a new thing in many ways.

Has that changed? Today, women have much more to take advantage of. I grew up having the best of three worlds: military, urban and rural. My mom married into the military and I saw international war and politics at the age of 6. We sometimes had to live in the city, say D. You had [to fight for] voting rights, equal housing, education.

Look at Brown vs. MW: Given your upcoming appearance at the SLDN dinner, has your own experience in a military family influenced your perspective on gay and lesbian service members? I have many friends in the service. I feel one must recognize, salute, and honor that, and just say thank you. MW: Have you talked to or known gay and lesbian service members who have been discharged or has that been grey of your work with The L Word?

And then to have [chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. MW: Why do you think that there has been this resistance to gays in the military, even when public support for it keeps growing? Just total ignorance. But people are becoming more and more informed when they see other people relaxing, and not just liberal, Democratic celebrities.

Everyone should be curious and not be lazy. There was a laziness about allowing black people to vote.