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Marlon Wayans on Standing Up to LGBTQ Hate: “The Worst People Now Have a Megaphone” (Exclusive)

The comedy icon, 51, became a Pride Month hero after an Instagram post in honor of his transgender child attracted a torrent of bigoted backlash: "What I'm not going to let you do is bully the people that I love."

The post received a torrent of hate and backlash from a faction of his followers, approximately 10,000 of which unsubscribed in protest, accusing him of everything from needing to find God to degrading the Black family. You took photos wearing a rainbow mask and LGBT-themed props in honor of Kai for what I assume was going to be one post celebrating Pride Month? And Parrish [Lewis], who’s the photographer, was like, “Hey, let’s do a shoot.” And my acting coach was like, “Yo, get some props.” At one point my tour was going to be called Skittles, so we had a bunch of rainbow-colored props sitting around.

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