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Why Lena Waithe Says Being a Queer Black Woman Has Helped Her in Hollywood

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Eli Countryman Lena Waithe said embracing her identity has ultimately helped her navigate Hollywood.“People assume that because I’m Black, or because I’m queer or because I’m a woman, those are going to be the things that I’m bumping up against all the time,” the Emmy winner said Thursday during the Legacy Keynote Conversation at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s HBCU Leading in Truth Symposium. “But in truth, it was something that worked for me because people wanted someone that checked more than one box to be in the room.

The things that made me different were the things that made me stand out.”Alphonso David, president of the HRC Foundation, moderated the conversation.

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