The Fallout Continues! Lawmakers Cancel Anti-Gay Kim Burrell's Appearance at Albany Caucus Event
Kim Burrell caused quite the controversy when video of her bashing gays as "perverted" swept social media last year.
In the days and weeks following, Kim lost out on scheduled TV appearances, awards show honors, and her radio show was cancelled.
She's managed to keep a rather low profile ever since -- but here we are in 2018 and Kim's hateful comments are still canceling her coins.
She was scheduled to speak at the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus church service in Albany this weekend, but once lawmakers learned of her abusive comments her appearance got canceled.
via NYDN:
City Councilman Ritchie Torres (D-Bronx), who is gay and planning to attend the caucus weekend, hadn't heard of Burrell but was critical of conference leaders for scheduling her to speak.
"Assigning a homophobe a prominent speaking role legitimizes bigotry and I find that unacceptable," Torres said before Burrell's appearance was canceled.
Told of the cancellation, he said Burrell should never have been invited in the first place.
"It shows we have a distance to travel before achieving full LGBT equality," Torres said. "It should have been clear from the beginning that she was self-evidently ill-equipped to speak given her history of homophobia."
In a statement, the group's executive director, M. Diana Campbell, suggested they'd been unaware of Burrell's history.
"Once her previous statements came to our attention, we decided to go in a different direction and the engagement was cancelled," Campbell said.
A woman in Burrell's booking office had no comment and said the pastor-singer doesn't typically grant interviews.
If you ask us, ALL of her appearances and bookings should be canceled for all of eternity. There's simply no place for hate in this world.
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