But while she does, she concluded, she looks out of her Manhattan window at that symbolic statue on the water, and she remembers why, every day, she has to walk out her door and be an ally for the people who need her. Before a captivated audience, Streep put Lazarus’s words to melody: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” She remembered a trip to the Statue of Liberty with her junior-high theater teacher where she first read Emma Lazarus’s sonnet, “The New Colussus,” which sits engraved at the statue’s pedestal. Though she touched on her memorable films in her remarks, the actress kept returning to the early influences of L.G.B.T.Q. Streep told the audience she didn’t know what she had done to deserve such an honor, except to “ kiss Allison Janney take, after take, after take.” Over the years, she has earned the admiration of the community, even inspiring an annual drag show, Streeptease. Her work, which includes the 2003 HBO miniseries adaptation of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America and 2002’s The Hours, has often touched on queer themes.
people, naming directors, teachers, and friends among them. She said she owed her career to countless L.G.B.T.Q. Streep began her speech in memory of her junior high theater teacher-one of the first transgender people in the United States to transition. “But that is why you invited me here! Right?”
“Yes, I am the most overrated, over-decorated, and currently, over-berated actress. The actress and honoree also had a response for Trump’s claim.
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