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Billy Porter is speaking up for the Black LGBTQ community and calling out the Black Lives Matter movement for not being more inclusive.
Porter, the Emmy winning star of Pose, recently posted a video to Instagram in which he discussed the beating of Iyanna Dior, a black trans woman in Minneapolis.
Porter criticized those in the Black community who have not prioritized the well being of those who are not straight and cisgender.
“My basic human rights have been up for legislation every single day that I have had breath in my body from all sides—and by that I mean that the Black community’s relationship with the LGBTQ+ community is appalling at best and eerily similar to that of white supremacists versus Black folk.”
Porter shared that Black people risk their lives every time they leave their homes and it’s doubled for queer people of color.
