00:00Hi, I'm RuPaul and you are in studio with The Hollywood Reporter.
00:08Gay pride has always been about young people.
00:11It's for young people in a culture that shames people for being unique and true to their heart.
00:23Pride shows young people that you can live a life, a successful life.
00:29You can find your tribe and there's a place for you.
00:33And that's huge.
00:34That's a huge message because there are a lot of people out there who really don't get that.
00:39In 2020, people are still thinking in a primitive way.
00:47And that's really the saddest part of where we are today is that we as humans are still
00:54so primitive and so fearful and so backward.
00:58I open the paper every day, the internet, and I read what's going on and I really get depressed.
01:05I get so depressed because we haven't as humans on this planet evolved in a way that I had
01:13hoped we would at this point in our history.
01:16So I feel that our show and the girls when they go out and do pride events or just go and do their nightclub acts are doing their part in showing that there's a way to advance our society and to champion young people out there who want to follow their heart but may not have an example of that in their small town or wherever they live.
01:44And I also just want to add to that, you know, the concept of pride is in theory is to balance
01:51the shame of being someone who dances to the beat of a different drummer.
01:56So in theory, you put pride there and it sort of offsets the shame but in reality, the truth of it is that the opposite of shame isn't pride, the opposite of shame is love.
02:12And when you can love yourself, when you can show the child, your inner child that you love yourself and that you're willing to take it out and parent it in a way that you weren't parented, that's what love is.
02:31That's how you can pay it forward by being good to yourself and to your inner child, that's what it means to, you know, if you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you going to love somebody else?
02:45You got to love that inner child.
02:46I know it sounds so cliche, but the truth is, it's been said so many times in our culture, but clearly not enough.
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