Amber Heard Is A Lesbian: Girlfriend, Tasya Van Ree, GLAAD Awards

by NowPublic Staff | December 6, 2010 at 09:15 am

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Zombieland And Pineapple Express Star Amber Heard Comes Out As Lesbian With Girlfriend Tasya Van Ree, At GLAAD 25th Anniversary Party In Los Angeles

Amber Heard, 24 is a rising star in Hollywood. Beautiful and talented his starring opposite megastar Johnny Depp in the upcoming film, The Rum Diary. So when Amber Heard, formally came out as a Lesbian at the 25th anniversary party for GLADD (Gays and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), accompanied by her girlfriend Tasya Van Ree, it was no small thing.

Wikipedia List of Famous Gays And Lesbians

Hollywood is notoriously skittish in casting self-declared Gays and Lesbians in prominent roles.

The website After Ellen had an exclusive interview with Amber Heard.

The media is obsessed with labels and labeling people. As an out actress, is that something that you’re concerned about or is it something you’re moving past because of GLAAD?
AH: It’s hard. I think GLAAD is one of the many reasons that I, as a 24-year-old, can come out. I think that organizations like GLAAD make that possible because if it weren’t for opinions being changed, people being influenced, people being engaged to do the right thing, then there would be no prerogative for anyone to come out. Like I said, I can’t be a part of the problem. I hate the idea of a label just as much as anyone else but I’m with who I’m with, I love who I love and I’m if not a better actress than I was yesterday and my personal life should have no effect on that

As Amber Heard indicates she is stepping on the shoulders of others. One of the critical moments in the Gay and Lesbian movement was in the late 1990s when a convergence of things occurred. Bill Clinton being elected and the subsequent disappointment with "Don't Ask Don't Tell, ( DADT)" protests against DADT, and the release of a documentary exploring the depiction and treatment of Gays and Lesbian in Hollywood, called The Celluloid Closet.

The Celluloid Closet film came out in 1996, as marches and protests against homosexual representation in film and television grew.

“Protests [were] aimed specifically at some of Hollywood's biggest and most prestigious films, including The Silence of the Lambs, which features a crazed transvestite who kills and flays women, and JFK, which has a scene in which gays alleged to be conspirators in the Kennedy assassination cavort in sadomasochistic fun and games” (Simpson and Cole 1). The article quoted above features an interview with Kate Sorensen, a member of Queer Nation, an organization that helped to organize the protests: “‘Every lesbian and bisexual character in these films is accused of being a psychotic killer…And the girl never gets the girl. I'm tired of that.’” Gay activists across the country attacked films like these, where the homosexual character is portrayed as a disgustingly erotic killer. Protestors would march around the filming area during outdoor scenes as well as around ticket lines when the movie came out.