A feeling of safety was stripped from every gay person with last weekend's massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

Lea DeLaria

A feeling of safety was stripped from every gay person with last weekend’s massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

That’s the sentiment of Lea DeLaria, who plays Big Boo in the Netflix series “Orange is the New Black.”

“When you are a queer individual, as I am, and you want to go someplace where you feel safe, you go to the local bar, you go to the gay bar,” DeLaria said Thursday.

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Orange is the New Black had premiere for a new season today on Netflix.

Photo By Greg Hernandez from California, CA, USA [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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