Actor Sophia Bush came retired arsenic queer successful an affectional effort successful Glamour and confirmed she’s successful a narration pinch retired U.S. Women’s National Team shot subordinate Ashlyn Harris.
“I benignant of dislike nan conception of having to travel retired successful 2024,” Bush wrote successful a screen communicative for nan manner magazine published Thursday. “But I’m profoundly alert that we are having this speech successful a twelvemonth erstwhile we’re seeing nan astir fierce attacks connected nan LGBTQIA+ organization successful modern history.”
Bush noted that location were more than 500 anti-LGBTQ bills proposed successful authorities legislatures past twelvemonth and said this motivated her to “give nan enactment of coming retired nan respect and grant it deserves.”
“I’ve knowledgeable truthful overmuch safety, respect, and emotion successful nan queer community, arsenic an state each of my life, that, arsenic I came into myself, I already felt it was my home,” she wrote. “I deliberation I’ve ever known that my sexuality exists connected a spectrum. Right now I deliberation the connection that champion defines it is queer. I can’t opportunity it without smiling, actually. And that feels beautiful great.”
The “One Tree Hill” prima revenge for divorcement from entrepreneur Grant Hughes successful August. People mag first reported successful October that Bush and Harris were dating, but neither confirmed nor commented connected nan report. The brace later attended an Oscar’s viewing statement together successful March.
In nan essay, Bush addressed online rumors that her narration pinch Harris began earlier Harris had officially divided from chap shot prima Ali Krieger, successful September.
“Everyone that matters to maine knows what’s existent and what isn’t,” Bush wrote. “But moreover still there’s a portion of maine that’s a ferocious defender, who wants to correct nan grounds portion by piece. But my amended self, pinch her earned patience, has to beryllium backmost and ask, What’s nan f------- point? For who? For net trolls? No, convey you. I’ll walk my precious clip doing things I emotion instead.”
Bush said that aft news astir her and Harris became public, her mom told her that a friend called and said, “Well, this can’t beryllium true. I mean, your girl isn’t gay.”
“My mom felt that it was obvious, from nan measurement her friend emphasized nan word, that she meant it judgmentally,” Bush wrote. “And you cognize what my mom said? ‘Oh honey, I deliberation she’s beautiful gay. And she’s happy.’”
Bush wrote that she felt for illustration she was wearing a weighted vest that she could yet put down.
“I yet consciousness for illustration I tin breathe,” Bush wrote. “I turned 41 past summer, amid each of this, and I heard nan words I was saying to my champion friend arsenic they came retired of my mouth. ‘I consciousness for illustration this is my first birthday,’ I told her. This twelvemonth was my very first birthday.”
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