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Just a couple of months ago, I solemnly swore to myself that I will not contribute to the media tirade that fanned the flames of the Depp-Heard defamation trial, which kicked off on April 11 in Virginia, USA. However, a tweet that I saw last bedtime dragged me back to the solemn reality of today’s media culture that seeks to sensationalize news reportage, without analysing it for its systemic issues.
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Although many feminist accounts on social media possess voiced their concern about the double burden of being a woman who survived domestic abuse and went on to notify it (NOTE: nobody is saying that men undertake not survive/suffer domestic violence, and that patriarchy doesn’t silence them!), what has been largely ignored is the biphobia that has fuelled the virtual witch-hunt of Amber Heard over the past couple of months.
For instance, a big part of Depp’s insecurity about his relationship with Amber Heard is rooted in her alleged (by him) infidelity, which in turn is a fallout of his biphobia. Media reports emerged about a woman ref
Amber Heard Recalls Coming Out to Her Parents and the Tearful Aftermath
For Amber Heard, getting her parents to grasp her sexuality was no easy feat.
On Saturday, the actress, who has since spoken out about her sexuality, reflected on the moment she told her parents about virtual dating a woman during the Making Change On and Off the Screen panel at SXSW Conference and Festival.
"I am from Austin, Texas. My dad is out of central casting Texan. Good Southern man, and I was raised in a religious home," she described on the panel, according to People. "And creature an outspoken sapphic, atheist, vegetarian, I remember when I told them about my relationship, that I was in love with this woman, and at the beginning of that it was just tears, tears."
Prior to her marriage to Johnny Depp, Heard dated Tasya van Ree for five years.
According to the actress, her parents "didn't know how to process it because, for them, it was being thrown into a binary system of processing it, negative or positive."
However, over hour, her parents' attitude shifted.
"Five years later, I was getting an award, and
AmberHeardhas no time for closeted gay celebrities.
Speaking at the The Economist’s Self-acceptance and Prejudice Summit March 23, the “Magic Mike XXL” and “The Danish Girl” star recalled the media firestorm that she faced after coming out as bisexual in 2010. In the end, the 30-year-old actress said that opening up about her sexuality was worth it ― and she encouraged other LGBTQ stars and public figures to follow her lead.
“Even though everyone around me strongly advised me against it, it was just incorrect. I would’ve rather go down for being who I am than to have risen for being something I’m not,” Heard told The Economist’s Deputy Editor Tom Standage.
She finally confirmed her sexuality, she said, when an After Ellen reporter asked her about the status of her relationship with then-girlfriend Tasya van Ree at the 2010 GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles. “I refused to not bring my partner at the time, but no one ever asked me about it,” Heard said. “An outlet specifically asked me who I was there with that night and who that person was to me and I just answered honestly.”
It didn’t take long for Heard to, as she put it, “realize the gravity” of what coming out would carry out. She
Amber Heard Opens Up About Entity Bisexual and Marriage to Johnny Depp
— -- Amber Heard is more than Johnny Depp's wife.
The "Magic Mike" actor, who tied the knot with the famed actor in February, has been acting since the mid-2000's and has several movies out this year including "The Danish Girl" opposite Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne.
But before meeting Depp and eventually falling in love, the actress, 29, dated artist and photographer Tasya van Ree and came out as bisexual in 2010 during a GLAAD event. Since then, she's never tried to hide her true self when speaking to the press.
"I don’t want to have to disallow my sexuality in order to be me," she told the Times of London. "But I don’t want to have to be defined by it. I’m fundamentally opposed to trying to edit myself to be palatable or popular. I don’t grant a f***. I fight, but I shouldn’t have to.”
Heard added that "I never thought I would get married. But I’ve always loved who I’ve loved."
She also opened up about creature an activist and being married to one of the most famous men on the planet.
"I’ve never let anyone else opt that for me, the