Bowen Yang

This is the community you actually do belong to.

And that's scary when that community can feel

tough on you.

And we are tough on each other.

We've always been tough on each other.

It's very hard, I think, for gay men to really and wholly be like, I am going to support enthusiastically these other gay people.

We've just always had a hard time with that.

I hope it's getting better because I hope we're just having that conversation more.

But I can also say it's often tough.

What is the heart of that?

I think when you see someone, I think this is really what I think it is.

When you see, when you are an underrepresented group and then there's representatives for your group, it's almost like an anxiety about how that person is gonna represent you because other people are watching.

You know, we've not previously had a lot of diverse representation in the world.

I know it seems like.

you know, the GOP would have us believe that it's, you know, gotten totally out of control with the diversity, but, you know, historically that's not been the case, and I do think that that causes some anxiety on the part of people in a minority group when they're finally being perceived.

And so,

I don't – while I have my frustrations and I get my feelings hurt sometimes, I understand where it comes from.

Right.

Because I do know what it's like to be a very online person who's trying to connect in community in discourse or trying to connect in community in sometimes cruel discourse.

Yeah.