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Alex Newell, Sean Hayes, J. Harrison Ghee, & more LGBTQ+ moments from last night’s Tonys

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Shucked. Newell used their speech at the United Palace in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood to tell the audience how they’d dreamed of winning a Tony Award their whole life.

They thanked the rest of the Shucked team and also their mom “for loving me unconditionally” and “teaching me what strength is.”“Thank you for seeing me, Broadway.

I should not be up here as a queer nonbinary fat black lil’ baby from Massachusetts,” they continued. “To anyone that thinks they can’t do it, I’m going to look you dead in your face [and say] that you can do anything you put your mind to.”TONY AWARD WINNER @thealexnewell!!!!!!!! #TonyAwards pic.twitter.com/7CKRIJwVLkJ Harrison Ghee won “Best Performance by an Actor in a leading role in a Musical” for their role in Some Like It Hot."For every trans, non-binary, gender nonconforming human who ever was told you couldn't be and couldn't be seen.

This is for you." @jharrisonghee #TonyAwards pic.twitter.com/qnN04OYpnw“My mother raised me to understand that my gifts that God gave me were not about me; to use them to be effective in the world; to help somebody else’s journey,” Ghee said during their speech. “So thank you for teaching me how to live, how to love, how to give.

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