Orange Is the New Black's Lea DeLaria hospalised after 'gay-bashg'

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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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. 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.

'OITNB' STAR OPENS UP ABOUT THE TIME SHE WENT TO JAIL... 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. STEINER her own clothg; the mician MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO her own clothg; the artist NICOLE EISENMAN a vtage jacket, urty of What Go Around Com Around, (212) 343-1225, and her own clothg; the wrer EILEEN MYLES a Gucci blazer, $3, 500,, and their own clothg; the wrer ROXANE GAY a Universal Standard jacket, $448,, and her own clothg; the artist MICKALENE THOMAS a Balenciaga jacket, $2, 390, (212) 328-1671, and her own clothg; the filmmaker LORENA RUSSI a Laste su, price on requt, ; the filmmaker SU FRIEDRICH her own clothg; the artist TIONA NEKKIA McCLODDEN her own clothg; the actor-mol JENNY SHIMIZU a Raf Simons at, $5, 495,, and her own clothg; and the wrer ALISON BECHDEL her own clothg.

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. Compoundg the ual homophobia and misogyny, black and brown butch mt ntend wh racist assumptns: “Black women often get read as butch whether they are butch or not, ” Gay says.

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

Gay not that “people tend to assume if you’re a black butch, you’re a stud and that’s , ” which is ultimately unte. Clockwise om top left: TIONA NEKKIA McCLODDEN her own clothg; CASEY LEGLER a Gucci jacket, $3, 200, vt, $1, 200, and pants, $980, and their own shirt; KIMBERLY PEIRCE her own clothg; ROBERTA COLINDREZ her own clothg; ALISON BECHDEL her own clothg; COLLIER SCHORR her own clothg; NICOLE EISENMAN a vtage jacket urty of 10ft Sgle by Stella Dallas, (718) 486-9487, Margaret Howell T-shirt, $130,, and her own clothg; EILEEN MYLES their own clothg; MICKALENE THOMAS a Balenciaga jacket, $2, 390, and her own clothg; JENNY SHIMIZU a Raf Simons at, $5, 495, and her own clothg; NICOLE EISENMAN a vtage jacket urty of 10ft Sgle by Stella Dallas, Margaret Howell T-shirt, and her own clothg; LEA DELARIA her own clothg; MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO a Jil Sanr shirt, $519,, and her own clothg; EILEEN MYLES a Gucci blazer, $3, 500, and their own clothg; and ROXANE GAY a Universal Standard jacket, $448, and her own clothg.

Lea suffered a homophobic attack her 20s (Picture: Rich Polk/Getty Imag for Netflix)Orange Is The New Black star Lea DeLaria was hospalised aged 24 after a ‘major gay-bashg’. While her work – cludg a number of mil edi the 1980s – was met wh acclaim, DeLaria said she was ‘majorly, majorly gay-bashed’ when she first moved to the Californian cy. Prr to this role, she was well-known on the stand-up edy scene, and is creded as the first openly gay ic to appear on a late-night US talk show for her 1993 appearance on The Arsen Hall Show, on which she said: ‘Hello everybody, my name is Lea DeLaria, and ’s great to be here, bee ’s the 1990s!

Twenty-five years ago, Lea DeLaria beme the first openly gay ic to appear on Amerin televisn when she performed on The Arsen Hall Show. ” At a time when homophobia was rampant, forcg queer ics to traffic nuendo when discsg their sexuali onstage, DeLaria and other out standups like Kate Clton and Stt Thompson were radilly ndid and brazenly polil, sometim at their own expense. ”Jt a few years earlier, the thick of the Aids crisis, Jaffe Cohen of groundbreakg edy tr Funny Gay Mal, who equently appeared on the Joan Rivers Show, liked to open his sets by outg himself as “half-Jewish and half-gay”, or a “shlomo-sexual”, as the gag went.

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

But when he livered the le at a edy club Queens, the emcee wiped off his microphone, as though gay men were ntag.

And lbian standups like Donna McPhail and Rhona Cameron would gratiate themselv wh dienc first, droppg the “L-word” midway through their the same time, homophobic jok were tnip for straight edians like Andrew Dice Clay, Sam Kison and Eddie Murphy, who his 1983 standup special Delir told “faggots” the dience not to look at his ass onstage. If, today, gay people are ls equently targeted mastream edy, gay sex is still regularly ridiculed, as when Jimmy Kimmel mocked Sean Hanny for beg Donald Tmp’s “bottom” and Stephen Colbert lled the print’s mouth Vladimir Put’s “ck holster”. Bis beg rctive and not terribly funny, the “jok” prove that lazy, anti-gay material is still low-hangg u for plenty of straight ics.

Standup, DeLaria believ, “is the last bastn of homophobia and sexism”, a sphere where openly clarg one’s prejudic is received wh lghs stead of risn. “There was a sire to market an image that’s attractive to straight people, and what’s attractive to straight people is simplicy, ” says Cohen, whose fellow Funny Gay Male Bob Smh beme the first gay ic on The Tonight Show 1994.

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

Or you n be Bob Smh, who had no gay affect. ”Whout much of a precent for an openly gay, mastream ic workg the nfsnal style that mhroomed wh the rise of alt-edy, today’s queer standups reprent somethg of an surrectn agast edy’s overwhelmg straightns and s pury plex, too.

“I felt angry bee my fluenc and hero traffic more of a queer, mpy mo, but the ways to get on stage were through straight shows, even if they were nsired alternative by virtue of the fact that they were bars, ” he Fabrega, a New York Cy-based ic, believ that a broang notn of what standup n be has allowed gay ics to hone their craft other ways. “A lot of LGBTQ performers are not dog tradnal standup, so we’re not those plac to beg wh, ” she the tans of alt-edy, pneered plac like the Upright Cizens Briga, LA’s Largo at the Coro or New York’s now-funct Luna Lounge, clu Maron, Janeane Garofalo, Bob Onkirk and Patton Oswalt, queer ics have assembled their own Mount Evert of standups, a small terie of edians who dared to speak to gay dienc when mastream edy still pretend such an dience didn’t exist.