Earlier this month retired NBA player Dwyane Wade's ex wife Siovaughn Funches-Wade filed a lawsuit to stop Dwyane from allowing their transgender teen, Zaya, to legally change their name and gender on their birth certificate [click here if you missed that].
In her new movie "The Inspection" Dwyane Wade's current wife, actress Gabrielle Union, plays the role of a homophobic mother with a queer child and explains how she related to the role as the mother of a queer child who is rejected by their bio-mother in real life...
From BET
And when it comes to themes of The Inspection mirroring Union’s real life, she says that, “Just like Elegance has had a deep deep yearning to be seen and loved completely by his mother. My own child has a deep deep yearning and desire to be loved by certain family members where the love is not returned.”
“There are certain family members who have not figured out how to not only love Zaya but a number of queer folks in our family completely and without condition. I relate to that as an ongoing challenge, and not just in our family, but across the board,” she adds.
“You feel an immediacy in the advocacy and the activism and as a parent, and in this case, as an artist it felt like I had to get this right. There are literal lives and bonds hanging in the balance. I felt an incredible weight and responsibility, not just to my child, but all the kids and young adults who just want to be f**king loved.”
