Billy Porter Slam Kevin Hart’s Supporters For Defending Anti-LGBTQ+ Jokes

Pose star and Golden Globe nominee Billy Porter has stayed pseudo-silent for too long while comedian Kevin Hart and his followers have sat and watched the Twitterverse burn over his past remarks that have been considered by many to be anti-LGBTQ+.

Hart, who ultimately chose to step down from hosting the 91st Academy Awards over the situation, has taken a step back and let his fans take the wheel on the issue. All have come out in support for Hart and said his comments weren't really as bad as people made them out to be. Others took a more extreme approach and joined him in promoting slurs and anti-LGBTQ+ remarks of their own.

But now the tide has shifted - and it's kind of coming from left field.  Anyway, here's the tea...

Billy Porter has chosen to shed some light on Hart's past remarks from 2011. Perhaps he thought a little insight from someone who is both part of the LGBTQ+ community and a Person of Color would offer some clarity on the issue. Either way, he went IN on Hart and his followers.

"People think that words don’t matter," said Porter. "Because it’s not about you having a joke. That’s not what it’s about. I’ve seen people and I’ve heard people who are not homophobic who do gay jokes. And you can tell that they’re not homophobic."

He went on the compare what other comedians, like Mo'Nique, have said in regards to homosexuality while making a joke to Hart's comments that just went a little too far.

"That crosses a line," Porter insists. "Because that allows your fans to think that [you can] hit somebody because you don’t like them. You don’t like their sexuality, ‘so I can bash you in the head.’ We’re not doing that anymore. And that is what Pose challenges."

After going all in on the current political  climate and the affect it has already had on both the LGBTQ+ community and People of Color, Porter left us with this little nugget of knowledge:

"I say to Kevin Hart, and I say to D.L. Hughley, I say to those people who think that they don’t need to apologize for shit and dig their heels in their toxic masculinity: But you want your rights! You want people to stop shooting your children in the back? But yet still, you turn around and oppress other people the same way you’re being oppressed. Fuck that. Fuck you. We’re done."

And that's all he's got to say about that. For now. Maybe.