Billy Porter Writes Touching Note To Conservatives That Criticized His 'Sesame Street' Appearance

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Billy Porter responds with empathy after One Million Moms called out hiDespite the bigotry and ignorance at play here, Billy Porter decided to respond to One Million Moms and did so with grace and empathy. No clap-back needed.


“One of the highlights of my life has been the opportunity to sing on the set of @sesamestreet with my new pal, Penelope the penguin. Together, we sang about the possibilities of new friendships with those who may not be exactly like us,” Porter wrote on Instagram.s PBS appearance

Last month, Sesame Street revealed that the radiant and fashion-forward Billy Porter would guest star in the upcoming season of the iconic PBS series. During his episode, Porter wore the epic tuxedo gown that he wore to the 2019 Academy Awards and while most people were like, “YAS!”, One Million Moms — an organization that makes it their mission to hate anything that isn’t straight — called for a boycott of the network for “pushing” the “LGBTQ lifestyle.”

“PBS recently announced that Sesame Street will feature a drag queen activist wearing a gender-bender tuxedo gown in one of its episodes this year,” One Million Moms wrote on their site. First of all, a “drag queen activist” in a “gender-bender tuxedo gown” sounds awesome, but One Million Moms *sigh* took offense to it, like they do all things.


“PBS KIDS should not introduce the LGBTQ lifestyle to young children,” they wrote before claiming that PBS should not use taxpayers’ dollars to “indoctrinate children to the LGBTQ lifestyle.”

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Despite the bigotry and ignorance at play here, Billy Porter decided to respond to One Million Moms and did so with grace and empathy. No clap-back needed.

“One of the highlights of my life has been the opportunity to sing on the set of @sesamestreet with my new pal, Penelope the penguin. Together, we sang about the possibilities of new friendships with those who may not be exactly like us,” Porter wrote on Instagram.

“I know people are all up in arms about me wearing the gorgeous custom @csiriano tuxedo dress,” he added. “If you follow me, however, you know the impact it had. The emails, DMs, and messages of good will I received that day (and continue to receive) from parents and their children who have been bullied all over the world and desperately need to see someone like me, being their authentic selves on mainstream media, is far more important than anything #onemillionmoms could ever say. Friendship, kindness and inclusivity shall triumph. And often, it simply starts by saying hi.”

Earlier this month, Porter’s Sesame Street appearance caught heat from Republican Arkansas Senator Jason Rapert who wanted Arkansas to pull its funding from PBS, inciting the exhausting “promoting the LGBT agenda” narrative again, and honestly when will these conservatives get some new talking points?

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/billy-porter-writes-touching-note-173744636.html

[SWBTATTReg]

1. When will being 'lgbt' stop lgbt persons from being used as punching bags over and over again?...

Those on the extreme right, conservatives, and other nasty white supremacist groups have long falsely preached of the dire horrors of people being lgbt, and as a result, lgbt people have died sadly and suffered in the past.

Not once has any such craven and blatantly false accusations have ever materialized as being true as those bigoted against the lgbt community keep harping. Not once (gays will attack children, and other crap).

Maybe those who are associated with those who are bigoted against the lgbt community might take a closer look at those people within their ranks who keep harping with this particular kind of hate speech repeatedly, yet offer no evidence what-so-ever, to back up their claims.

Perhaps these conservatives truly aren't conservatives and thus don't deserve this title describing them (they are in reality, something worst). There is no college that issues the title of 'conservative' upon a person or persons (that I know of), this seems to be a title that some seize and use, on their own, simply to confer some majestic aura upon them, when in truth, their mouth is simply a gutter mouth of hate and spit.

The answer is simple...instead of 'being conservatives', their actions and language is simply hate speech.

Maybe if conservatives, instead of sheltering yourself with these so called vaunted conservative values of yours, you might want to consider updating your values to reflect the vast majority of how Americans today view the lgbt community, with an equal, positive and open attitude? Maybe actually find out the truth for once, what the LGBT community really is? Maybe you might want to join the rest of us Americans with open hands of friendship?

[MotorCityBeard]

2. Isn't One Million Moms like one person?

I know I read that during the flack over the Hallmark commercial DARING to show a lesbian couple.

Billy Porter is one class act. He is terrific on the FX series Pose, and I love his response to the criticism. I think it was very brave of Sesame Street to have him on (especially in this political climate) so good for them. What the hell is wrong with the message that you can be friends with someone who is different from you? How is the indoctrination? I don't think Sesame Street's audience is going to turn gay from seeing Mr. Porter on there.

[Caliman73]

3. One Million Moms is ONE mom.

It is an organization the way that a billionaire incorporates as a tax shelter.

Oh and, the "LGBT Agenda" is basically to have people acknowledge that they are human beings with valid identities and experiences who just want to simply be able to live like the rest of us. This bullshit about "the agenda".