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Big Boo of 'Orange Is the New Black' takes on homophobic subway preacher (video)

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Intrusions on the NYC Subway, be it acrobats, mariachi bands, panhandlers or somebody eating a full meal with knife and fork beside you, are usually met by looking the other way. When it came to a Subway evangelist spouting homophobic hatespeech on an M Train on Tuesday (11/5), Lea DeLaria — aka Big Boo on Orange Is the New Black — spoke up. Or specifically, began to sing, leading the car through a rendition of “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.” When that didn’t shut him up, she went shout-for-shout with him for several stops, telling the preacher “You’re part of the reason America’s in trouble.” Check out video (via Gothamist) below…