Lena Waithe, the award-winning 'Master of None' and 'Queen and Slim' scribe, said that while she feels accepted as a Black, gay woman in the entertainment industry, she believes audiences need to see even more Black queer representation PrideSummit
breakout Jonica Gibbs, for a conversation that touched on expanded lesbian representation in television, the recent Black Lives Matter protests across the country and the role of the industry in the movement.
But the existence and embrace for Hattie and characters like her didn't come easy, Waithe said. The screenwriter explained that though she wrotethe latter helped normalize Black stories and set a path for the Gibbs-led series. The screenwriter continued saying that people assume that masculine presenting lesbians "want to be men or that we're trans." Waithe also said that the people who make such assumptions believe there's a toxic masculinity that comes with being a masculine presenting lesbian, which she said isn't necessarily the case.
, she said she "could not be prouder of that dialogue and that conversation," noting that it resonated strongly with the lesbian community. "I will be honest, Black folks are not that patient anymore, so folks need to start unlearning their bad behavior as quickly as possible because we’ve been living in this bad behavior and this supremacy for long enough," Waithe said.
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