He has appeared on Broadway, gone viral with dazzling music videos & sashayed all over reality competition shows But todrick is still fighting for his place in the industry, where he says racism & homophobia linger — while owning up to his past mistakes
as a kind of a crash course in being black: “I’m sure I had been proud to be black before, but being inwas the first time I remember being like, ‘I am so proud to be an African American performer because only African American performers could have told a story like this.’ ” Yet his relationship with black culture and other black creatives has occasionally been strained.
“I feel like oftentimes if we don’t sound like what a black person ‘should’ sound like by other people’s standards, we do start to feel like we’re not black enough,” admits Hall. “I’m on a roller coaster where sometimes I try to overcompensate and prove my blackness, and then sometimes I’m like, ‘But I don’t feel supported by my black community, so I don’t need to try to sell to them.’ I’ll just sell to whoever wants to buy my music.
2019 was in many ways a banner year for Hall: He returned to Broadway to play the comic lead of Ogie inand appeared in Swift’s “You Need To Calm Down” video, a colorful call for LGBTQ equality that directed viewers to a petition urging the Senate to pass the Equality Act, an anti-discrimination bill. Yet Hall remembers the year as a difficult one personally, due to what he describes as a near-constant stream of vitriol and criticism from internet “trolls.
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