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OITNB’s Lea DeLaria: Butch lesbians are the pariahs of the LGBTI community
Orange Is the New Black star Lea DeLaria has said ‘nelly fags and butch lesbians’ are the pariahs of the LGBTI community.
DeLaria plays Boo in Netflix series and told the Television Critics Association last week that her character’s storyline read like something out of her childhood diary.
‘Butches have a shared life experience, and you saw all of it in Boo’s backstory,’ she said. ‘Being forced to wear a dress by your parents… I would hide under my bed just terrified.’
DeLaria said the only difference between her life and Boo’s was that her parents had listened to her. ‘Unfortunately, the story that they showed, Boo’s story, is all too common. Way too common,’ she lamented.
The actress continued, ‘My own community ostracizes me and thinks of nelly fags and butch lesbians as sort of the pariahs of the community.’
But DeLaria credited the show changing the people’s attitudes toward LGBTI people.
‘A large part of what we’ve done of the politics of the LGBT community has been about gaining our rights, fighting for our rights, achieving our rights,’ she said.
‘And recently it’s been turned a little bit more towards winning the hearts and minds of people. I feel very strongly that Orange Is the New Black has been very important in that part of what’s happened to us in that community – that’s an amazing turn of events.’
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