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Via NYDailyNews

“I am tired of hiding,” Hollywood actress Ellen Page announced Friday at an LGBT youth conference in Las Vegas. “I’m tired of lying by omission.

“I’m here today because I am gay,” Page, 26, told the audience to a raucous standing ovation. “And because maybe I can make a difference. To help others have an easier and more hopeful time. Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility.”

She goes on to say:

“It’s weird because here I am, an actress, representing — at least in some sense — an industry that places crushing standards on all of us,” Page said. “Not just young people, but everyone. Standards of beauty. Of a good life. Of success. Standards that, I hate to admit, have affected me.”

According to the article, Ellen says she was inspired to come out by NFL-hopeful Michael Sam and “Orange Is The New Black” transgender star Laverne Cox

Is ANYONE surprised?

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