Justice Smith is out and proud. The 24-year-old actor, known for his roles in Netflix’s “The Get Down” and “Detective Pikachu”, made a casual revelation about his sexuality in an Instagram post on Friday night.
In the post, he describes his experience at a Black Lives Matter protest in New Orleans, while also revealing that he’s dating “Queen Sugar” star Nicholas Ashe. “@nckash and I protested today in New Orleans,” he wrote to accompany a video from the protest. “We chanted ‘Black Trans Lives Matter,’ ‘Black Queer Lives Matter,’ ‘All Black Lives Matter’.
As a black queer man myself, I was disappointed to see certain people eager to say Black Lives Matter, but hold their tongue when Trans/Queer was added.” RELATED: Rebecca Black Dishes On
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