--- description: At a Las Vegas conference held by the Human Rights Campaign Friday to support L.G.B.T. youth, the Oscar-nominated actress told an audience, "I’m here today because I am gay" title: Watch Ellen Page’s Emotional Coming Out Speech image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d6d358d83fc4747/6986827e55a8599a2da7f636/e8b60c75be474a0b969475bd53f321f3-0-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Ellen Page’s Emotional Coming Out Speech by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 15, 2014 8:19 PM CUT  Actress Ellen Page comes out as gay at the Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive Conference, on Friday, February, 14, 2014 in Las Vegas. Actress Ellen Page comes out as gay at the Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive Conference, on Friday, February, 14, 2014 in Las Vegas.Jeff Bottari/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 15, 2014 8:19 PM CUT Ellen Page, the Oscar-nominated star of _Juno_, has come out as gay. At a Las Vegas conference Friday held by the Human Rights Campaign to support L.G.B.T. youth, Page told an audience straightforwardly, “I’m here today because I am gay.” She received a standing ovation for her speech, in which she talked about wanting to serve as an example for other gay youth: --- > “” --- Page came out less than a week after Michael Sam, the University of Missouri football player and NFL prospect, announced he is gay. Sam would be the first openly gay player active in the football league if he is drafted. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7644/ellen-page-comes-out-as-gay/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7644/ellen-page-comes-out-as-gay/"},"headline":"Watch Ellen Page’s Emotional Coming Out Speech","datePublished":"2014-02-15T20:19:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:25:07.809Z","description":"At a Las Vegas conference held by the Human Rights Campaign Friday to support L.G.B.T. youth, the Oscar-nominated actress told an audience, \"I’m here today because I am gay\"","url":"https://time.com/7644/ellen-page-comes-out-as-gay/","keywords":["celebrities","LGBT Issues","Juno"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d6d358d83fc4747/6986827e55a8599a2da7f636/e8b60c75be474a0b969475bd53f321f3-0-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d6d358d83fc4747/6986827e55a8599a2da7f636/e8b60c75be474a0b969475bd53f321f3-0-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Actress Ellen Page comes out as gay at the Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive Conference, on Friday, February, 14, 2014 in Las Vegas.","caption":"Actress Ellen Page comes out as gay at the Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive Conference, on Friday, February, 14, 2014 in Las Vegas.","creditText":"Jeff Bottari/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign","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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/7644/ellen-page-comes-out-as-gay/","name":"Watch Ellen Page’s Emotional Coming Out Speech"}}]}] ```