Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Hannah Einbinder has had to deal with “inter-communal” queerphobia because of her sexuality.
The 31-year-old actress, who is bisexual, admitted her family have always been supportive as she revealed most of the discrimination she’s felt has actually come from other people within the LQBTQ+ community.
She told Attitude magazine: “My grandmother was gay. I feel lucky to have parents who are cool.
“You know, I think most of my experiences have been your classic biphobia. Inter-communal as well.
“People reducing you to a fetish or invalidating your experience or your identity.”
However, Hannah – who stars with Gillian Anderson in trans director Jane Schoenbrun’s new movie Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma – has learned to “really not care about” those comments after over a decade of “being out”.
She said: “I’ve truly liberated myself from all that. I don’t need anyone to understand me. I’m really fine.
“I needed that for so long; I really was trying to feel validated. Again, because my identity is not binary, people have a hard time with it.
“Even other binary queer people have a hard time with my identity. So I just go, ‘Girl – you don’t have to worry about it.’ “
Hannah did recall a specific moment she faced homophobia in public, when someone aggressively asked why she was kissing another girl.
She said: “I think a lot of queer people have probably had this experience of being out in public and having someone say something to you.
“Very early on in my being out, I was in a date with someone and we were making out in a bar.
“Some guy came up to us and was like, ‘What are you girls kissing for? What are y’all doing that?’ Right in our face.
“I was very much not having it. I have a fight in me. I was like: ‘Because we’re gay, you f****** idiot!’ “
The Hacks star pointed out that all queer people “have stories like that”, and she feels fortunate the situation didn’t escalate.
She added: “I’m lucky it didn’t get physical. I know a lot of queer femmes who have not been so lucky.
“I count myself as incredibly privileged in my experience to be from Los Angeles. Although, that did happen in LA some-f******-how.”
