Billy Porter Delivers Fiery Speech at Outfest: ‘F— SCOTUS!’

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIn true Billy Porter fashion, the multi-hyphenate superstar didn’t hold back while delivering a politically-charged speech Thursday night at the opening of this year’s Outfest.“Fuck SCOTUS!” he said while accepting the Outfest Achievement Award.His words were met with applause and cheers from the crowd gathered at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles.He condemned Republicans who testified against Donald Trump and his close aides during the Jan.

6 hearings. “None of you Republicans who are coming forward in these hearings right now are heroes,” Porter said. “You are not heroes.”He blasted them for standing by Trump until the Capitol riot: “Fuck y’all, too!” The “Pose” star said left-leaning voters got too comfortable before Trump was elected. “Our messaging has to change,” he said. “We thought we won something – the Democrats, the progressives – we got civil rights, we got Roe v.

Wade, we got marriage equality, all the rest. We got a Black president and then we all sat on our asses and ate Bon Bons for eight years and then the unthinkable happened.”Porter said, “We lost our vigilance.

It’s time for us to take that shit back.”He continued, “Our 24-hour news cycle has forgotten to illuminate that the reason the pushback is so severe in this moment is because the change has already happened.