… But I’ve been thrown against walls because I’m not a ‘real’ woman. Brilliant people and executives who have been collaborative and fought for important art. Jaclyn Moore, a trans writer, executive producer and showrunner who spent four seasons on Netflix’s Dear White People, took a stand on Twitter to say that she will no longer work with Netflix while the company continues to “put out and profit from blatantly and dangerously transphobic content.” She added: “I love so many of the people I’ve worked with at Netflix. Negative reviews and viewers loudly condemning his latest special is a message to the industry that audiences don’t support platforming anti-LGBTQ diatribes. GLAAD weighed in on Twitter: “Dave Chappelle’s brand has become synonymous with ridiculing trans people and other marginalized communities. Netflix should immediately pull The Closer from its platform and directly apologize to the transgender community.” “Perpetuating transphobia perpetuates violence. “With 2021 on track to be the deadliest year on record for transgender people in the United States - the majority of whom are Black transgender people - Netflix should know better,” NBJC executive director David Johns said in a statement released to media. In the few days since The Closer was released, Chappelle has received condemnation from the NBJC, which called for the special to be pulled from the streamer. I miss the old-school gays … the Stonewall gays. “I’m not that fond of these newer gays - too sensitive, too brittle. “I don’t hate gay people, I respect the shit out of you - not all of you,” he says. top 10 list of the streamer’s most popular titles, also features jabs at white gays, the #MeToo movement and lesbians, among others. Rowling by identifying as “team TERF,” a term that means trans-exclusionary radical feminist, an ideology that excludes trans women as women. He also sided with Harry Potter author J.K. That is a fact,” he says in the special, his last of a string of Netflix specials that also included Sticks & Stones, Equanimity and The Bird Revelation. Every human being in this room, every human being on Earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on Earth. This is real life.”īut that is precisely what the LGBTQ community, and in particular trans women, have objected to after Chappelle used their real lives, bodies and gender identity as punchlines in The Closer. Fuck NBC News, ABC News, all these stupid ass networks. At another point, he was more blunt: “Fuck Twitter. The line, and many more like it, was greeted by rapturous applause from the crowd, which included a masked Brad Pitt, Tiffany Haddish, Donnell Rawlings, Chuck Lorre, Sterling K. “If this is what being canceled is like, I love it,” the 48-year-old said in response to a standing ovation. Comedian Jeff Ross kicked off the program with a short set, followed by a screening of the film, which one attendee described as “moving.” Then came Chappelle - dressed in a suit, with his wife and a cigarette in hand - for the main event that saw him being heralded at the mic on numerous occasions as the greatest living comic. Some were on the bill tonight, including Snoop Dogg, Talib Kweli, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Stevie Wonder, poet Amir Sulaiman, Nas, Lizzo and a singing Jon Hamm. Jimmy Kimmel Takes Shots at Will Smith's Oscars Slap Throughout 2023 Show
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