“Grey’s Anatomy” star Sara Ramirez has come out as bisexual over the weekend and people are apparently shocked by it.
Sara, who is happily married and very protective of her private life, delivered a powerful speech at the True Colors: 40 to None Summit, and shared her personal experiences as a “Woman, multi-racial woman, woman of color, queer, bisexual, Mexican-Irish American, immigrant, and raised by families heavily rooted in Catholicism on both my Mexican and Irish sides.”
So many of our youth experiencing homelessness are youth whose lives touch on many intersections—whether they be gender identity, gender expression, race, class, sexual orientation, religion, citizenship status.
And, because of the intersections that exist in my own life: Woman, multi-racial woman, woman of color, queer, bisexual, Mexican-Irish American, immigrant, and raised by families heavily rooted in Catholicism on both my Mexican and Irish sides, I am deeply invested in projects that allow our youth’s voices to be heard, and that support our youth in owning their own complex narratives so that we can show up for them in the ways they need us to.
Watch Sara Ramirez’s speech below.
Sara played the role of Dr. Callie, who was bisexual, so convincingly that this doesn’t feel like “news” to me.
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