{"id":2351841,"date":"2026-03-30T19:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2351841"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:12:19","slug":"xavier-smalls-says-sorry-to-lgbtq-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/xavier-smalls-says-sorry-to-lgbtq-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavier Smalls says \u2018sorry\u2019 to LGBTQ+ community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-333681\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Actor <strong>Xavier Smalls<\/strong> is issuing an apology after a resurfaced clip from his Feb. 7 social media broadcast showed him comparing LGBTQ+ people to murderers and calling them an \u201cabomination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smalls plays Angel, a gay\u2011for\u2011pay exotic dancer, on <strong>Tyler Perry\u2019s <\/strong>Netflix drama series \u201cBeauty in Black.\u201d The comments drew swift backlash once the clip began circulating again last week, prompting Smalls to release a lengthy statement on Instagram Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He said he has \u201ctaken time to listen\u201d to friends \u2014 including those within the LGBTQ+ community \u2014 and now recognizes \u201chow my approach may have lacked the love, humility, and awareness that I believe God calls us to have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smalls added, \u201cAllow me to be very clear about my heart and intentions. Nothing I shared was meant to condemn or harm anyone. Every human being deserves dignity, compassion, and most importantly love.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.stlamerican.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Xavier Smalls is issuing an apology after a resurfaced clip from his Feb. 7 social media broadcast showed him comparing LGBTQ+ people to murderers and calling them an \u201cabomination.\u201d Smalls plays Angel, a gay\u2011for\u2011pay exotic dancer, on Tyler Perry\u2019s Netflix drama series \u201cBeauty in Black.\u201d The comments drew swift backlash once the clip began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2351842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2351841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Xavier-Smalls-says-\u2018sorry-to-LGBTQ-community.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351843,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351841\/revisions\/2351843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2351842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}