--- title: Mara Wilson Discusses Sexuality After Orlando Shooting description: Mara Wilson – from Mrs. Doubtfire and Matilda – opened up on Twitter about how the LGBTQ community “has always felt like home.” canonical: https://time.com/4369152/mara-wilson-lgbt-orlando/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-14T21:16:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:44.211Z og:title: Mara Wilson Discusses Sexuality After Orlando Shooting og:description: 'I’ve embraced the Bi/Queer label lately' og:url: https://time.com/4369152/mara-wilson-lgbt-orlando/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49058ea479719520/698897d0ab6d778dbb6aa122/gettyimages-453978989.jpg?branch=production&width=691&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 691 og:image:height: 389 og:image:alt: Today - Season 62 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mara Wilson Discusses Sexuality After Orlando Shooting twitter:description: 'I’ve embraced the Bi/Queer label lately' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49058ea479719520/698897d0ab6d778dbb6aa122/gettyimages-453978989.jpg?branch=production&width=691&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mara Wilson Discusses Sexuality After Orlando Shooting > Sponsored content. 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Peter Kramer—NBC/NBC NewsWire/Getty Images by [Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly Jun 14, 2016 9:16 PM UTC After 49 people were shot to death at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday morning, Mara Wilson – who appeared as Robin Williams’ daughter in Mrs. Doubtfire and played the title character in Matilda – opened up on Twitter about how the LGBTQ community “has always felt like home.” Wilson first posted a photo of herself at a gay club taken when she was 18\. “I have never had a better experience at a club than I did then,” she tweeted. In a later tweet, she said that she “\*used\* to identify as mostly straight” before adding, “I’ve embraced the Bi/Queer label lately.” She went on to say that she’s “a 2” on the Kinsey scale, which is defined by the Kinsey Institute as “predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual.” “I know a lot of people don’t like the Kinsey scale, and that is fine by me,” she wrote. “But I’m pragmatic at heart and find comfort in numbers.” Aside from Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire, Wilson also starred in 1994’s Miracle on 34th Street. Although she’s more focused on writing than acting these days, she did make a brief cameo in a recent episode of Broad City. See her tweets below. > [](https://twitter.com/MaraWritesStuff/status/742034423575662593) > [](https://twitter.com/MaraWritesStuff/status/742034711816642560) > [](https://twitter.com/MaraWritesStuff/status/742035045561556992) > [](https://twitter.com/MaraWritesStuff/status/742038388027621376) > [](https://twitter.com/MaraWritesStuff/status/742039517285224448) > [](https://twitter.com/MaraWritesStuff/status/742040666491002880) > [](https://twitter.com/MaraWritesStuff/status/742041300652949504) > [](https://twitter.com/MaraWritesStuff/status/742502819576565760) > [](https://twitter.com/MaraWritesStuff/status/742504662503411713) > [](https://twitter.com/MaraWritesStuff/status/742506044547600385) > [](https://twitter.com/MaraWritesStuff/status/742506347044954112) > [](https://twitter.com/MaraWritesStuff/status/742519369213874177) _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/14/mara-wilson-sexuality-orlando-shooting) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://EW.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4369152/mara-wilson-lgbt-orlando/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4369152/mara-wilson-lgbt-orlando/"},"headline":"Mara Wilson Discusses Sexuality After Orlando Shooting","datePublished":"2016-06-14T21:16:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:44.211Z","description":"\"I’ve embraced the Bi/Queer label lately\"","url":"https://time.com/4369152/mara-wilson-lgbt-orlando/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49058ea479719520/698897d0ab6d778dbb6aa122/gettyimages-453978989.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49058ea479719520/698897d0ab6d778dbb6aa122/gettyimages-453978989.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Today - Season 62","caption":"Mara Wilson on NBC News' \"Today\" show, Dec. 6, 2013.","creditText":"Peter Kramer—NBC/NBC NewsWire/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4369152/mara-wilson-lgbt-orlando/","name":"Mara Wilson Discusses Sexuality After Orlando Shooting"}}]}] ```