Troye Sivan Drags PM For Downplaying Impact Of Orlando On LGBT Community

YAAAAASSSSSSS TROYE SIVAN, WITH YOUR ANGEL VOICE OF BOTH MELODY AND REASON.

The openly gay Aussie singer has stood up for his LGBTQIA peers in a series of clapbacks to Malcolm Turnbull‘s statement on the devastating Orlando massacre that has claimed the lives of 49 people (50 including the shooter, with many more injured).

In his address to the nation – which you can read in full HERE – the PM states that the shooting is “an attack on all of us – on all our freedoms, the freedom to gather together, to celebrate, to share time with friends.”

He left himself wide open for criticism there; is it not hypocritical to bemoan an abhorrent attack on “all of us” when, in 2016, your government still continues to willfully exclude same-sex couples by blocking gay marriage? How can we ever truly be one community while it’s still split into two when it comes to a freedom s basic as marrying the person of your choice?

Troye did *not* hold back in sharing a piece of his mind with the PM. 

@TurnbullMalcolm few things – 1) you failed to mention that this was an attack on LGBT people in an LGBT space

— Troye Sivan (@troyesivan) June 13, 2016

@TurnbullMalcolm 2) we don’t need sympathy. We need rights. Let us marry. Stop segregating LGBT people from the rest of our society

— Troye Sivan (@troyesivan) June 13, 2016

@TurnbullMalcolm Until you make LGBT people feel like equal citizens, I don’t think I’ll feel like this was an attack on ‘all of us’

— Troye Sivan (@troyesivan) June 13, 2016

@TurnbullMalcolm Who is ‘us’ if LGBT people in your county are still treated like second class citizens?

— Troye Sivan (@troyesivan) June 13, 2016

The network received almost 60 complaints about the segment, and Longhurst today issued a spectacular non-apology.

“As the presenter responsible for chairing the conversation, I regret that the segment ended as it did,” he said. “I absolutely accept the atrocity in Florida was, of course, an attack on LGBT people, but I was also trying to reflect what was on the newspaper front pages.”

If you want a much more accurate representation of the effect Orlando has had on the LGBT community, read this open letter to shooter Omar Mateen by survivor Alejandro Francisco.