【有片】Ellen獲頒自由勳章哽咽　奧巴馬稱讚打破社會禁忌

美國節目主持人Ellen Degeneres獲奧巴馬頒發自由勳章，表揚她在同志平權運動上的貢獻。Ellen獲獎時更一度哽咽，場面感人。

▲奧巴馬在頒獎前的演說，頌揚Ellen在20年前出櫃，並推動同志平權的勇氣。

奧巴馬在頒獎前發表演說，指人們很容易忘記Ellen DeGeneres在1997年時出櫃的風險，指當年她的決定會危害自己的前途，並稱讚她的勇氣「將國家推向正義一方」。

奧巴馬演說辭：
“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獲獎前在社交媒體Twitter自曝自己差點因忘帶身分證，而不能入白宮領獎。但她進場後就與一眾在場嘉賓玩最近非常流行的「定格」（Mannequin Challenge），回復笑星本色。

但Ellen在領獎時聽到獲獎原因期間就不禁哽咽。

自由勳章是美國最高的平民榮譽，當晚同場的還有多位巨星，包括著名影星羅拔迪尼路，湯漢斯及籃球巨星米高佐敦及渣巴。

（BBC／Huffington Post）