Gay and Transgender activist and actor Billy Porter lamented over the weekend that black and queer actors are having trouble finding work in Trump’s America.
Porter, who has been the toast of Hollywood for years based almost exclusively on his outrageously, over-the-top gay persona, voiced his concerns on MSNOW after a ‘No Kings” rally in Washington D.C. outside the Trump-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Advocate reported.
“Authoritarian governments go after the arts first. Because the arts have the power to reach inside of people and change the molecular structure from the inside out,” Porter said without identifying just how anyone is “going after” the arts.
Porter went on to claim that black and gay artists can no longer get work and went on pushing left-wing platitudes and mixed metaphors.
“As a Black gay out artist, I caught the wave of what we now know
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