“When I hear someone comment about me coming out, I think it’s funny because I was never in,” she said at The Economist‘s Pride & Prejudice Summit in N.Y.C. “I was always out. I was an activist. I went to protests. I refused to not bring my partner at the time, but no one ever asked me about it.” After revealing who her partner was to a reporter at a red carpet event, “then I saw I was attached to a label … I watched as I quickly became not actress Amber Heard, but out lesbian Amber Heard. It did impact my career, it was difficult. It was not easy.” When some directors questioned whether she could convincingly play a straight woman in a romantic lead role, “I rolled my eyes at that. And I said, ‘Watch me do it.’ “
