Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorElliot Page says films like “But I’m a Cheerleader” offered relief from some of his struggles as a young LGBTQ+ person.“I for one know that without the various representation that I was able to stumble upon as a kid and a teenager — there was very little — I just don’t know if I would have made it,” he said while receiving Outfest’s Achievement Award on Sunday at the film festival’s closing night gala in Los Angeles. “I don’t know if I would have made it through the moments of isolation and loneliness and shame and self-hatred that was so extreme and powerful and all-encompassing that you could hardly see out of it.“And then, you know, at 15, when you are flipping through the.