Gabrielle Union. Photo: MTV UK, via Wikimedia Commons
Gabrielle Union lambasted Florida’s “don’t say gay” bill and anti-LGBTQ+ actions by politicians in other states while speaking on the red carpet for the Los Angeles premiere of her new film, Cheaper by the Dozen — and criticized the film’s studio, the Walt Disney Co., albeit without mentioning the studio’s name, reports the Advocate.
Union, star and executive producer of the film, is stepmother to a transgender child, Zaya Wade, the daughter of Union’s husband, Dwyane Wade. Speaking about the Florida bill, which would restrict classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity, she told The Hollywood Reporter, “I don’t want to say shock because hatred doesn’t shock me at this point. I’ve been a black woman in America since ’72. Nothing shocks me, but the fear that gripped me because I know what this leads to. Every moment in history, there has been this moment. We know how this ends. We know where hate and oppression lead. And it can start now with the LGBTQIA community, but if you think that it’s just a them problem, oh, baby, you’re next.”
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