âItâs easy to forget now, when weâve come so far, where now marriage is equal under the lawâjust how much courage was required for Ellen to come out on the most public of stages almost 20 years ago. Just how important it was not just to the LGBT community, but for all of us to see somebody so full of kindness and light, somebody we liked so much, somebody who could be our neighbor or our colleague or our sister challenge our own assumptions, remind us that we have more in common than we realize, push our country in the direction of justice.
What an incredible burden that was to bear. To risk your career like that. People donât do that very often. And then to have the hopes of millions on your shoulders. But itâs like Ellen says: We all want a tortilla chip that can support the weight of guacamole. Which really makes no sense to me, but I thought would brighten the mood, because I was getting kind of choked up. And she did pay a priceâwe donât remember this. I hadnât remembered it. She did, for a pretty long stretch of timeâeven in Hollywood. And yet, today, every day, in every way, Ellen counters what too often divides us with the countless things that bind us togetherâinspires us to be better, one joke, one dance at a time.â âPresident Obama awarding the Medal of Freedom, our nationâs highest civilian honor, to Ellen DeGeneres yesterday, along with 20 other Americans who have contributed to their fields.
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