Wicked star Michelle Yeoh has the best reaction to being called a gay icon
Michelle Yeoh is fully embracing her status as a gay icon (as! she! should!). As one of cinema’s most influential action heroines, the Oscar winner has become a legendary figure (and “mother!”) within the LGBTQIA+ community.
With her Oscar-winning performance as Evelyn Quan Wang in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022), one of the greatest LGBTQIA+ films of all time, and as Madame Morrible in Wicked, Yeoh’s rainbow following has only continued to grow.
In a recent interview with GAY TIMES, Yeoh unleashed a “woo!” upon discovering her gay icon status and called it a “badge of honour”. “I think it’s because [the LGBTQIA+ community] loves people that are strong,” she went on to explain. “When you are strong, you express what you believe.
You take a stand, and I think in life that’s the most difficult thing. “When you know the truth about yourself, can you take that stand?
