Michelle Yeoh is fully embracing her status as a gay icon (as! she! should!).<\/p>\n
As one of cinema’s most influential action heroines, the Oscar winner has become a legendary figure (and \u201cmother<\/a>!\u201d) within the LGBTQIA+ community.<\/p>\n With her Oscar-winning performance as Evelyn Quan Wang in Everything Everywhere All At Once<\/em> (2022), one of the greatest LGBTQIA+ films of all time, and as Madame Morrible in Wicked<\/em>, Yeoh’s rainbow following has only continued to grow.<\/p>\n In a recent interview with GAY TIMES<\/em>, Yeoh unleashed a “woo!” upon discovering her gay icon status and called it a “badge of honour”.<\/p>\n “I think it’s because [the LGBTQIA+ community] loves people that are strong,” she went on to explain. “When you are strong, you express what you believe. You take a stand, and I think in life that’s the most difficult thing.<\/p>\n “When you know the truth about yourself, can you take that stand? Regardless of whether people are going to accept it, you first have to make the first step.”<\/p>\n Yeoh memorably rose to stardom in the 80s and 90s as an action heroine in various martial arts films, before earning worldwide recognition for her roles in Tomorrow Never Dies<\/em> (1997) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/em> (2000).<\/p>\n\n