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• LEA DELARIA RELLS BEG ‘MAJORLY GAY-BASHED’ AT 24, ENDG UP HOSPAL
• ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK STAR LEA DELARIA OPENS UP ABOUT BEG 'GAY-BASHED'
• LEA DELARIA REVEALS SHE WAS VLENTLY GAY-BASHED IN HER TWENTI
• 'OITNB' STAR OPENS UP ABOUT THE TIME SHE WENT TO JAIL... FOR BEG GAY
• ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK STAR LEA DELARIA WAS HOSPALISED AGED 24 AFTER BEG ‘MAJORLY GAY-BASHED’
• LEA DELARIA TALKS ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK AND DISMANTLG GAY TOKENISM
• ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK STAR LEA DELARIA HOSPALISED AFTER ‘MAJOR GAY-BASHG’, AGED 24

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

Lea DeLaria relled beg "majorly gay-bashed" years ago.

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

Male Brewer troduced to gay bar by ‘OITNB’ -star Lea DeLaria.

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. 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.

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

DeLaria is creded wh beg the first openly gay ic to appear on a late-night talk show wh her 1993 appearance on The Arsen Hall Show. I had to al wh the double-edged sword of misogyny and homophobia and ternalized homophobia om my own people.

I thk that has somethg to do wh the alphabet soup—you know, gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr; by the time you say everythg, the para’s over.

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.

'OITNB' STAR OPENS UP ABOUT THE TIME SHE WENT TO JAIL... FOR BEG GAY

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.

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK STAR LEA DELARIA WAS HOSPALISED AGED 24 AFTER BEG ‘MAJORLY GAY-BASHED’

I had to al wh the double-edged sword of misogyny and homophobia, as well as ternalized homophobia om my own people. I thk that has some- thg to do wh the alphabet soup—you know, gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr; by the time you say everythg, the para’s over. 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.

" terview, Lea DeLaria looked back on the time she was arrted Missouri for beg gay. "We tend to agree wh DeLaira, which is why we changed our name om Gay Voic to Queer Voic Febary 2016. But ’s not that we’re rels; ’s that unlike, say, the gay whe men who have been given all too much cred for fluencg ntemporary visual culture, we’re simply not out to appease the male gaze.

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

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But wasn’t until the 1960s and early 1970s that butch, themselv at the tersectn of the burgeong civil, gay and women’s rights movements, beme a more visible and viable muny. “In my early 20s, I intified as a stone butch, ” says the 45-year-old wrer Roxane Gay.

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK STAR LEA DELARIA HOSPALISED AFTER ‘MAJOR GAY-BASHG’, AGED 24

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