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"        Months after Ellen Page announced she is gay in a beautiful speech at the Human Rights Campaign&amp;#039;s Time to Thrive conference, the actress sat down with daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres in what we can only describe as one of the most touching moments we&amp;#039;ve seen on television.  The two actresses discussed what it was like to come out in Hollywood, with DeGeneres telling Page that she felt similarly when she came out in 1997. &amp;quot;I know how scary that is,&amp;quot; DeGeneres said after replaying a clip from Page&amp;#039;s speech. &amp;quot;I can see you&amp;#039;re emotional just watching that. I was like that for a couple years after I came out. It&amp;#039;s a scary thing to verbalize, to say it out loud.&amp;quot; Page said it was the scariest thing she&amp;#039;s done in her life but was &amp;quot;so ready&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;so excited&amp;quot; to do it.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m so grateful to you,&amp;quot; Page said to DeGeneres, &amp;quot;because you did it in a time when it was much harder and much scarier.&amp;quot;  DeGeneres came out publicly in an interview with Oprah in 1997. Soon after, her character on her sitcom Ellen subsequently came out to a therapist played by Oprah on the show. At the time, some advertisers decided not to buy time on the episode titled, &amp;quot;The Puppy Episode.&amp;quot; The sitcom was canceled in 1998.  &amp;quot;I know what that&amp;#039;s like when you&amp;#039;re on a show and you just feel like you&amp;#039;re waiting for someone to go, &amp;#039;You&amp;#039;re gay! I know you are!&amp;#039;&amp;quot; DeGeneres said.  &amp;quot;Yes! It&amp;#039;s just so nice to go to work and have a conversation about an ex...wear what you want...to feel like you&amp;#039;re being yourself,&amp;quot; Page said. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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