""I didn't want to be part of a comic book," she continued. "But what I didn't want to do was hide from the world we live in. I want to define it, I want to make it a more open and accepting place. And so I thought it was necessary for me to [come out] - I was already holding my girlfriend's hand in public.""
""I was like, 'So you want me to live a partial life? And you want me to uphold and perpetuate and sustain a system that excludes people?' And I just can't do that," she said."
""It was less about sharing the details of my relationship and more so acknowledging that there are people that don't get full access to being alive because they're hiding," Stewart said."
Kristen Stewart publicly came out on Saturday Night Live in 2017 and later married Dylan Meyer in 2025. The decision aimed to increase visibility for people who hide and thereby miss full access to life. Stewart rejected advice to hide public displays of affection, calling such concealment a requirement to live a partial life and to uphold an excluding system. She refused to commodify private relationship details while also refusing to hide from public life. Stewart framed her coming out as a defining statement intended to make society more open and accepting and to unlock others' doors.
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