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. "If you look at how many people that are known and that are Black in the industry, and then if you can count on like maybe one or two hands how many of them are out?
The numbers just don’t add up," Waithe said at Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter's second annual Pride Summit and Prom. On Saturday, Waithe joined her mentee, Twenties 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
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