Lena Dunham has sparked backlash over a tweet they fired off on the weekend.
Musing concerning the afterlife, the 36-year-old Ladies star tweeted about their inevitable passing on Twitter, whereas detailing how they’d prefer to be despatched off.
“After I go, I need my casket to be pushed by means of the NYC pleasure parade with a plaque that reads ‘she wasn’t for everybody, however she *was* for us’- who can organize?” tweeted Dunham, who’s non-binary and makes use of the pronouns they/them/their.
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The tweet swiftly obtained backlash from the LGBTQIA+ group, particularly since Dunham is taken into account an ally.
“STUNNING show of self-absorption,” one Twitter person commented. “By no means did see such a emaculate show of allies centering themselves in queer areas.”
In the meantime, one other commented: “That is poisonous, privileged progressivism at its best lol. Performative, accomplishes nothing, and places all the eye on the ‘ally’ at the price of the individuals they’re supposedly allied with.”
“Is lena dunham threatening to posthumously drive right into a parade,” one other person wrote.
Dunham has lengthy been vocal about their LGBTQ+ group. In 2014, they produced the documentary, Suited, which explores the problems of gender id and in 2015 they revealed to Ellen DeGeneres that they won’t get married till homosexual marriage is authorized within the US.
“The thought of getting a celebration that may’t be totally shared amongst all of the individuals in my life and all of the those that we love simply does not actually really feel like a celebration in any respect,” Dunham informed the discuss present host.
“Till that is one thing that everybody can be part of into with no sense of being ignored on any stage, politically, emotionally, it is simply not one thing that we’re gonna do.”
That very same 12 months, same-sex marriage turned authorized in all 50 states within the US and in September 2021, Dunham married musician Luis Felber after 9 months of courting.
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