Actor Billy Porter took a shot at the American education system for allegedly “ignoring” queer artists’ contribution to the culture.
“Everybody knows Duke Ellington, but very few people know one of the mastermind behind Duke Ellington, and his name was Billy Strayhorn,” Porter said. “He’s one of he greatest jazz musicians, writers, and arrangers of all time.” Billy Porter made headlines over the summer when he publicly told Disney CEO Bob Iger “fuck you” over the SAG-AFTRA strike.
“I have to sell my house,” Porter continued. “Yeah! Because we’re on strike. And I don’t know when we’re gonna go back. The life of an artist, until you make fuck-you money — which I haven’t made yet — is still check-to-check. I was supposed to be in a new movie and on a new television show starting in September. None of that is happening. So to the person who said, ‘We’re going to starve them out until they have to sell their apartments’ — you’ve already starved me out.
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