Ryan Murphy Slams Florida For Making ‘It Hard’ For LGBTQ Youth ‘To Survive’

Ryan Murphy had a connection for LGBTQ radical everyplace portion accepting the Carol Burnett grant for TV excellence during the 2023 Golden Globes connected Jan. 10. “It’s hard being an LGBTQ kid successful America,” helium reminded audiences portion slamming places similar Florida, wherever the “Don’t Say Gay” measure and different anti-LGBTQ authorities telephone home.

After a passionate intro from Billy Porter, Ryan took the stage. While grascious arsenic tin be, the American Horror Story prima utilized his level to wage tribute to immoderate of Hollywood’s astir talented LGBTQ actors. After thanking Billy, helium gave Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, the prima of Pose, the basal ovation she missed past twelvemonth erstwhile the Globes were disconnected the air. In 2021, she made past arsenic the archetypal trans idiosyncratic to triumph a Golden Globe.

Ryan Murphy won the Carole Burnett Award for TV excellence astatine the 2023 Golden Globes. (Rich Polk/NBC)

Ryan past championed collaborators Niecy Nash-Betts, Matt Bomer, and Jeremy Pope for surviving their truths. Explaining wherefore helium works truthful hard to correspond his LGBTQ peers connected screen, helium said, “When I was a young idiosyncratic astatine location successful the ’70s watching The Carol Burnett Show, I ne'er ever saw a idiosyncratic similar maine getting an grant oregon adjacent being a quality connected a TV show.” Reminding radical of the stakes, helium said, “It’s hard being an LGBTQ kid successful America. In fact, each implicit the world, past and now. And I person 1 connection for you, Florida.”

Turning backmost to his collaborators, Ryan told the audiences, “You are often told you volition person to fell your airy to survive. But for those kids watching, contiguous I connection up MJ and Billy and Niecy and Matt and Jeremy arsenic examples of possibility. My ngo was to instrumentality the invisible, the unloved, and marque them the heroes I agelong to spot but ne'er did successful popular culture.”

Ryan has made rather the interaction connected the Golden Globes implicit the years. He won champion play successful 2005 for Nip/Tuck, champion comedy/musical bid wins for Glee successful 2010 and 2011, and won successful the constricted series, anthology class for 2017’s The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story and 2019’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. All successful all, he’s earned 16 Golden Globe nominations.

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