As actor Billy Porter stages a gay and Black Lies Matter play written by Harrison David Rivers, he is also attacking America as a “racist” country that he claims is just like “Nazi Germany.”
Rivers wrote the play, This Bitter Earth, in 2015 at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement and the play tracks three years in the relationship of a gay black man and his white boyfriend who clash over the pro-black movement and its goals as the white boyfriend goes full activist mode and the black star remains ambivalent over it all. Porter is directing the latest staging of the play currently running at London’s Soho Theatre, according to The Pink News.
Porter and Rivers told Pink News that
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