'Actress Ellen Page Comes Out: VIDEO'

Response Paper #1: “Actress Ellen Page Comes Out: VIDEO” During Ellen Page’s speech at the Time to Thrive convention she spoke to an audience of people like her. These audience members including young adults were the focus of her speech. During Page’s speech, she came out as a lesbian. She discussed how concealing her identity has been a struggle throughout the years. She hoped coming out would help other with their own struggles about sexuality and life while she stated that her credibility might be questionable. She still felt the need to tell her stories about triumphing over hard times. Paige felt that this may resonate with her audience. She presents herself as an ally to the audience by connecting to them through her personal experiences. The purpose of Paige’s speech is to support organizations promoting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender

Most of her speech was more of personal experiences which shows that logos wasn’t used as much in her speech. The reason for that could be because she knows her audience well since she’s part of the LGBT community. One way she appeals to logos is by referring to Human Rights Campaign Foundation and what they do on behalf of LGBT across the country. That makes her trustworthy and credible since the Human Rights Campaign is foundation with many achievements in helping the LGBT community. Page mostly appeals to logos by giving personal examples, and by making logical connections in her experience throughout her life time. Page makes a good logical connections by talking about how not telling the truth about yourself can be painful and toxic. “Yet there is courage all around as. The football hero Michael Sam; the actress Laverne Cox; the Musicians Tegan and Sara Quinn; the family that supports their daughter or son who has come out.” This was another example that she gives to emphasize that there’s