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• ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK STAR LEA DELARIA OPENS UP ABOUT BEG 'GAY-BASHED'
• LEA DELARIA RELLS BEG ‘MAJORLY GAY-BASHED’ AT 24, ENDG UP HOSPAL
• LEA DELARIA REVEALS SHE WAS VLENTLY GAY-BASHED IN HER TWENTI
• LEA DELARIA TALKS ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK AND DISMANTLG GAY TOKENISM

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK STAR LEA DELARIA OPENS UP ABOUT BEG 'GAY-BASHED'

Orange Is the New Black star Lea DeLaria opens up about beg 'gay-bashed' so badly she was hospalized when she was 24 years old Published: 07:57 BST, 9 June 2021 | Updated: 10:28 BST, 9 June 2021. Orange is the New Black Star Lea DeLaria is openg up about beg 'majorly gay-bashed' so badly sent her to the 63-year-old actrs, who ma history as the first openly gay edian to appear on Amerin televisn wh a 1993 appearance on The Arsen Hall Show, opened up about the horrific cint a new terview wh Page edienne was jt 24 years old San Francis when the cint happened.

Gay bashed: Orange is the New Black Star Lea DeLaria is openg up about beg 'majorly gay-bashed' so badly sent her to the hospal Openg up: The 63-year-old actrs, who ma history as the first openly gay edian to appear on Amerin televisn wh a 1993 appearance on The Arsen Hall Show, opened up about the horrific cint a new terview wh Page Six 'My nose was broken, chipped an eye socket, had several cracked ribs, ' DeLaria began. Injuri: 'My nose was broken, chipped an eye socket, had several cracked ribs, ' DeLaria began Eased: DeLaria mentned that the harassment has eased up more recent years, likely part due to her role as Carrie 'Big Boo' Black on Orange Is the New BlackStill, she adds that gay-bashg has always been, 'credibly rough' for 'butch lbians' such as herself. Rough: Still, she adds that gay-bashg has always been, 'credibly rough' for 'butch lbians' such as herselfShe also said that starrg on Orange Is the New Black, 'opened up people’s hearts and mds to women who look like me.

Lea DeLaria relled beg "majorly gay-bashed" years ago. In a new terview wh Page Six, the “Orange Is the New Black” alum, 63, relled beg “majorly, majorly gay-bashed” San Francis when she was 24 years old.

LEA DELARIA RELLS BEG ‘MAJORLY GAY-BASHED’ AT 24, ENDG UP HOSPAL

DeLaria said the harassment has eased recent years due to her beloved role as Carrie “Big Boo” Black on “OITNB, ” but she noted that gay-bashg has always “been credibly rough” for butch lbians like herself. In 1993, DeLaria, who is also an acplished jazz sger, beme the first openly gay ic to appear on a late-night talk show when she announced on “The Arsen Hall Show” that she was a “big dyke. "As mastream society started to accept gay people more and more, you didn't need to go to a lbian bar, " Lisa Menicho, owner of New York Cy lbian bar Cubby Hole, says the documentary.

Lea DeLaria said she was a victim of a vlent asslt that sent her to the hospal when she was her Orange Is the New Black actor, 63, told Page Six she relled gettg "gay-bashed" San Francis at 24. The ic star was raised as a Catholic, which n be observed her performanc as she often mak referenc to Lea DeLaria: Catholic School Ma Me Funny - CONAN on TBSDeLaria ma an appearance on The Arsen Hall Show 1993, beg the first openly gay edian to feature on a late-night talk show. The ‘famoly ntroversial’ DeLaria was ‘the first openly gay ic break the late-night-talk-show barrier’ wh her 1993 appearance on The Arsen Hall Show.

She directed ‘Ten Percent Revue’, a mil revue wh the song related to h 0sexualy and that most of reflectg pri beg gay 1986.

LEA DELARIA REVEALS SHE WAS VLENTLY GAY-BASHED IN HER TWENTI

In 1993, Lea DeLaria appeared on The Arsen Hall Show, where she was the first openly gay ic to appear on a late-night talk show.

She hosted Comedy Central’s Out There, the first all-gay stand-up edy special at the last of 1993. As a stand up ic, she got her start on The Arsen Hall Show 1993 as “the first openly gay ic to break the late-night talk-show barrier.

The characters aren’t props, they aren’t the smart ass bt iends wh one lers—they are about as far om token gay characters as you n get. As shown through OITNB favor like DeLaria’s Big Boo and Sophia (Laverne Cox), the narrativ of gay and trans characters are created to stand all on their own, and their stori are often betiful, and jt as often necsarily and unapologetilly ugly. Paste: It wasn’t that long ago that there was a “token” gay character that existed on a lot of televisn, and reprented one ia.

LEA DELARIA TALKS ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK AND DISMANTLG GAY TOKENISM

Paste: Even to this day still seems like women the LGBT muny have to fight a ltle harr than gay men to be accepted and to be heard. Gay men and gay women are wrg and producg the shows now, so when you have a queer character, you’ve actually got the people wrg and producg. The msag I get range om “Thank God for your show, ” to “I was able to e out and be who I am, ” to “I’m gay, and I n’t tell my parents bee they’ll stone me to ath.

There were all gay sts and that was . “The gays should be like the raiss rais bran.