“Grey’s Anatomy” star Sara Ramirez has been a longtime supporter of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights, and now the actress has reiterated her love and support once more.
Mexican-American and Irish actress Sara Ramirez — who plays the role of gay orthopedic surgeon Callie Torres on the hit ABC medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy”— has appeared in Spanish-language PSAs for GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation). A few years after that, the actress started a foundation in honor of her best friend Al D. Rodriguez, a gay actor and singer from New York who died of cancer. Sara Ramirez often called Rodriguez her “gay husband.”
Although Ramirez is very busy with her lead role on “Grey’s Anatomy” and busy enjoying married life with business analyst Ryan Debolt whom she tied the knot with back in July, the 37-year-old actress says she’s never too busy to support the LGBT community — something she plans to do for a very long time.
“I’m always going to support the LGBT community and equal rights for the LGBT community,” Ramirez tells Latina.com exclusively. “That’s going to be with me ‘till the day I die and beyond. I mean, that’s just what it is!”
In fact, Sara Ramirez said that her commitment to LGBT rights will even be stronger, because now her husband, Debolt, is fighting for the LGBT community right alongside her.
“Thank God I have a life partner who just wants nothing more than to stand by my side and support me in that,” Ramirez said, adding that her husband is “the most confident man I’ve ever met…he’s amazing!”
After several years of fighting for equal rights for the LGBT community, Sara Ramirez said she is still amazed by people who don’t support equal rights for gays, lesbians and transgender people.
“I’m always amazed by that [lack] of compassion, I really am,” the actress said. “But I imagine that those kinds of people that are stuck in that whole thing—that whole train of thought {Laughs}—I don’t know when they were so hurt that they can’t possibly have compassion for someone else in that respect.”
Sara Ramirez adds that everyone should get to choose who they love and who they want to spend the rest of their life with.
“To just have the choice—that’s what it always comes back to. You really want to take someone’s choice away? You don’t want them to have the choice to build that life for themselves in the way they choose to? And that’s really disappointing,” the actress concluded.
Following her success on Broadway, Sara Ramirez joined the cast of “Grey’s Anatomy” in a recurring role as Dr. Calliope ‘Callie’ Torres in the hit TV show’s second season. For the third season, she became a series regular. On a special “Grey’s Anatomy”-themed episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” she revealed that top executives from ABC loved her performance in “Spamalot” so much that they offered her a role in any ABC show she wanted. She picked “Grey’s Anatomy” of which she was a fan. Sara Ramirez provided a cappella vocals in the song “Silent Night” for the soundtrack of the show’s sixth season episode “Holidaze,” airing November 19, 2009. On December 21, 2009, this version of the song was released as a single on iTunes. Ramirez’s voice was also showcased in the musical episode of “Grey’s Anatomy,” Ep. 718 “Song Beneath the Song,” which aired March 31, 2011. Her solo music debut was an extended play released on March 27, 2011 through the iTunes Store. It included three original songs, as well as a recording of “The Story,” performed on the musical episode of “Grey’s Anatomy.”
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