Billy Porter on homophobia in the Black community: ‘Things are changing'

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'I know it’s hard to hear.'

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star was speaking in an interview with Billy Eichner for Jimmy Kimmel Live released on YouTube yesterday. ‘Growing up gay in the Black community – it’s a very homophobic community across the board,’ he said. ‘With that said, as the world has changed and as the world has shifted, the black community is changing and shifting.’Stressing the importance of choosing language carefully, the Emmy-winner added: ‘All black people are not homophobic — and I know that.

‘[…] I’m talking to homophobic, transphobic and xenophobic people in general, specifically black people in this instance because black trans women are dying at the hands of black cis men at such an alarming rate that it is the highest violence on record.‘I know it’s hard to hear, but I have worked my whole life to be in a position where I can speak from authority, where I have a platform to speak.

 

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