The actor Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter franchise) has run an advertisement in which he committed to the organization The Trevor Project for prevention against suicide among young gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people.
Daniel Radcliffe says have known growing up, many homosexuals.
“It’s something – the fact that some people are gays and others not – who has never been a problem one seconds,” said the actor 20 years after the shooting that took held at the headquarters of the association that drives the campaign information transmitted in the spring.
“When I went to school for the first time (…), I witnessed homophobia, which I had never met before, and that shocked me,” says he , adding that he always “hated anyone being intolerant toward gays, lesbians or bisexuals.
“Today I am in a privileged position that allows me to really do something against all this,” says the hero of Harry Potter.
Justifying his involvement with the Trevor Project, Daniel Radcliffe considers it important that someone like him, from a cinematic saga and the general public as Harry Potter, to take a position, especially since it is “neither gay or bisexual or transgender. ”
On the contrary, considers the young actor, “the fact that I’m heterosexual does not make a difference but shows that heterosexuals are particularly concerned and sensitive to this cause.”