Billy Porter Shares Distaste For Kevin Hart
More LGBTQ celebrities are shaking their fists at Kevin Hart.
Kevin Hart gained the animosity of the internet when he was announced as the host for the upcoming Academy Awards. The problem is that old tweets of his flinging around anti-gay slurs were shared online.
But instead of saying he regrets what he once said, the comedian decided to not apologize. He didn’t want to back down to the internet, which would be admirable in any other circumstance, and thus stood by the hateful words he once shared. Some of which, you can read below.
Thanks to Hart dragging his heels, media sources are asking LGBTQ talents and creatives about their thoughts on the matter. Broadway and tv legend Billy Porter is one of the many who aren’t happy with Hart.
Talking to Consequence of Sound, the Pose star responded to the Kevin Hart debacle at the end of the last year.
“I say to Kevin Hart, and I say to D.L. Hughley, I say to those people who think that they don’t need to apologize for shit and dig their heels in their toxic masculinity: But you want your rights! You want people to stop shooting your children in the back? But yet still, you turn around and oppress other people the same way you’re being oppressed. Fuck that. Fuck you. We’re done.”
“People think that words don’t matter,” he says. “Because it’s not about you having a joke. That’s not what it’s about. I’ve seen people and I’ve heard people who are not homophobic who do gay jokes. And you can tell that they’re not homophobic.
“I think Monique, a long time ago, she did a joke about butt sex,” he continues. “It was a whole thing about butt sex and ‘the gays,’ you know. And the punchline was something like, ‘Yeah, but don’t knock it till you try it!’ … but she’s not a homophobic person. She’s not saying, ‘If I come home and my four-year-old son is playing with a baby doll house, I’m gonna break it over his head and tell him it’s gay.’”
