Anita in West Side Story, Ariana DeBose made a plea for abortion rights, queer rights, and human rights in an appearance Thursday on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.
DeBose, who made history this March when she became the first queer woman of color to win the Academy Award, enumerated the ways in which the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v.
Wade and Justice Clarence Thomas’s promises to come after other rights affects her personally.“I’m Black, I’m Afro-Latina, I’m a woman, and I’m queer.
My country is at war with me, and that’s hard,” DeBose said.She began the conversation by calling out to queer joy on the final day of Pride Month.“I’m thinking about a lot at the end of Pride Month.