Jennifer Lawrence roasts Mike Pence over conversion remedy views at GLAAD Awards (Marleen Moise/WireImage through Getty Pictures)
Starvation Video games star Jennifer Lawrence roasted Mike Pence on the GLAAD Media Awards, joking that the previous US vice chairman was secretly homosexual and had gone by means of conversion remedy.
Throughout the LGBTQ+ organisation’s thirty fifth annual media awards on Saturday (11 Could), which was disrupted by a pro-Palestine protest, Lawrence took to the stage to tear into Pence’s alleged help for conversion remedy.
Joking that she had as soon as fallen in love with a homosexual man and tried to “convert” him, earlier than realising that “conversion remedy doesn’t work”, Lawrence went on to focus on Pence, quipping that he have to be secretly homosexual.
“Did you hear me, Mike Pence?” Lawrence stated. “I stated: ‘Conversion remedy shouldn’t be actual’, despite the fact that you assume it labored on you.”
Whereas Pence has denied supporting the follow – which purports to vary an individual’s sexuality or gender id – opponents, highlighting his well-publicised broadly anti-LGBTQ+ views, have claimed the previous presidential candidate backs the thought.
X-Males star Lawrence has beforehand been vocal in her help for the LGBTQ+ neighborhood, writing a column after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, telling queer folks to “be loud” and “let this enrage you”.
She informed Vogue in 2022 that her views had prompted points inside her circle of relatives, however that “you must be political” in America.
“I labored arduous within the [past] 5 years to forgive my dad and my household and attempt to perceive. The data they’re getting is completely different, their life is completely different,” she stated.
“I’ve tried to recover from it and I actually can’t. I can’t. I’m sorry I’m simply unleashing, however I can’t f**okay with individuals who aren’t political any extra. You reside in america of America, you must be political. It’s too dire. Politics [is] killing folks.”
She went on to explain Trump as a “harmful, harmful jar of mayonnaise”, in addition to condemning the Supreme Courtroom’s choice to overturn Roe v Wade and intestine abortion rights within the US.