Mara Wilson Tweets Support To LGBTQI Community In Wake Of Orlando; Embraces “Bi/Queer” Label

Matilda star Mara Wilson has revealed on Twitter that she’s “embraced the Bi/Queer label lately”, in a message of support to the LGBTQI community following the Orlando shooting at Pulse nightclub.

Her Tweets came as 49 were confirmed dead at the hands of Omar Meteen at the popular Florida spot. (A further 53 were injured in what has since been classified as America’s deadliest ever mass shooting.)

Wilson, now 28, began with a snap of herself, aged 18, at a gay club.

Me at a gay club when I was eighteen. I feel embarrassed looking at it now... pic.twitter.com/qMZec3WBvu

— Mara Wilson (@MaraWritesStuff) June 12, 2016

"[T]he LGBTQ community has always felt like home, especially a few years later when I, uh, learned something about myself," she added.

When pressed for details, Wilson said she was a “2” on the Kinsey scale, which is classified as "predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual".

"I *used* to identify as mostly straight," she clarified. "I've embraced the Bi/Queer label lately."

Wilson is not the only person to share their sexual orientation with the world following Orlando’s tragedy, with many using the #GaysBreakTheInternet to come out publicly.

Collectively, it’s a massive, generous gesture. Consider one of the Orlando survivors who lost his boyfriend of three years in the shooting; his parents in Mexico do not even know he is gay.

"It’s a double catastrophe," he told the New York Times. "You face such horrible loss and then can’t share it."

Being a "straight girl" where I clearly didn't belong, but I will say, I felt so welcomed there.

— Mara Wilson (@MaraWritesStuff) June 12, 2016

I have never had a better experience at a club than I did then. Great music and people. And one of my friends met his partner that night!

— Mara Wilson (@MaraWritesStuff) June 12, 2016

But the LGBTQ community has always felt like home, especially a few years later when I, uh, learned something about myself.

— Mara Wilson (@MaraWritesStuff) June 12, 2016

So thank you.

— Mara Wilson (@MaraWritesStuff) June 12, 2016

Let me put it this way: I'm a 2. https://t.co/VA98ZK0a37

— Mara Wilson (@MaraWritesStuff) June 13, 2016

Your support is much appreciated. I will say, though, I'm still gonna be pretty private about my relationships, as I always have been.

— Mara Wilson (@MaraWritesStuff) June 13, 2016

I know a lot of people don't like the Kinsey scale, and that is fine by me. But I'm pragmatic at heart and find comfort in numbers.

— Mara Wilson (@MaraWritesStuff) June 13, 2016

.@__SonjaLouise__ I said I *used* to identify as mostly straight. I've embraced the Bi/Queer label lately

— Mara Wilson (@MaraWritesStuff) June 14, 2016

Photo: NBC.