“Being a black woman in this country and in this industry, I’ve felt that we’re not seeing ourselves represented,” she says. “And you know, we don’t complain about it. We jump up and say, ‘What do we have to do to change it?’
The Crazy Rich Asians and Superstore actor wants to take his characters outside the box. “It’s important for me to play them so that people realize there’s a broad spectrum of us. Not all Asian people are the same. Not all gay people are the same."
We're highlighting 50 years of queer music classics this week, as seen in "Songs in the Key of Pride" in the June/July issue. Here, we're bringing it back to 1988 with an album that changed history.