【有片】Ellen获颁自由勋章哽咽　奥巴马称赞打破社会禁忌

美国节目主持人Ellen Degeneres获奥巴马颁发自由勋章，表扬她在同志平权运动上的贡献。Ellen获奖时更一度哽咽，场面感人。

▲奥巴马在颁奖前的演说，颂扬Ellen在20年前出柜，并推动同志平权的勇气。

奥巴马在颁奖前发表演说，指人们很容易忘记Ellen DeGeneres在1997年时出柜的风险，指当年她的决定会危害自己的前途，并称赞她的勇气“将国家推向正义一方”。

奥巴马演说辞：
“It’s easy to forget now, when we’ve come so far, where now marriage is equal under the law, just how much courage was required for Ellen to come out on the most public of stages almost 20 years ago. Just how important it was not just for the LGBT community, but for all us to see somebody so full of kindness and light. Somebody we liked so much, somebody who could be our neighbor or our colleague or our sister challenge our own assumptions. Remind us that we have more in common than we realize, push our country in the direction of justice. What an incredible burden it was to bear, to risk your career like that. People don’t do that very often.”

Ellen获奖前在社交媒体Twitter自曝自己差点因忘带身分证，而不能入白宫领奖。但她进场后就与一众在场嘉宾玩最近非常流行的“定格”（Mannequin Challenge），回复笑星本色。

但Ellen在领奖时听到获奖原因期间就不禁哽咽。

自由勋章是美国最高的平民荣誉，当晚同场的还有多位巨星，包括著名影星罗拔迪尼路，汤汉斯及篮球巨星米高佐敦及渣巴。

（BBC／Huffington Post）