‘Racist’ gay porn star calls for cops to shoot Black protesters as Black Lives Matter rises up against police brutality
In June, Billy Santoro outraged followers with posts calling for police to shoot Black protesters. (Billy Santoro/screenshot)
Billy Santoro, a gay porn star based in Australia, has disappeared from adult sites and social media after he called for police to shoot Black protesters.
As Black communities rise up against centuries of police brutality, state-sponsored murder and systemic racism, many white allies in the queer community and beyond have showed support by marching, donating and posting on social media.
Billy Santoro, however, decided to use his Twitter platform to call on police to shoot Black people.
“Lol. America! Lol you let your blacks loot as a way of protest,” he wrote in a since-deleted tweet.
“Wake the f**k up. Shoot first.”
@OnlyFans One of your models, Billy Santoro, is calling for violence against black people. If you have a conscience you will terminate his account. pic.twitter.com/pDbiV988MM
— Nathan (@SinisterThings) June 2, 2020
The adult star deleted his entire Twitter account following a backlash, but screenshots shared widely on social media show that he has a history of using violent words against the Black community.
A screen grab appears to show Santoro claiming “Blacks will just breed more hatred towards them” by damaging business property during protests.
Another reads: “You are a fool if you think Black trans women aren’t being murdered by their community, you are truly blind.”
At least 26 trans people were killed in the US in 2019, the overwhelming majority of which were Black trans women killed by cis people. At least 12 trans people have been killed in the US this year, including Nina Pop, a Black trans woman, and Tony McDade, a Black trans man killed by police.
Tonight’s blow up wasn’t the first time Billy Santoro said some fucked up stuff. pic.twitter.com/aEzFjlqou2— Danny Barefoot (@dannybarefoot) June 2, 2020
Billy Santoro cancelled by JustForFans.
JustForFans – an adult site similar to OnlyFans – was quick to condemn Santoro and removed him from the platform.
“His account is gone,” it tweeted Tuesday (June 2).
“Policing is a slippery slope and we won’t be puppets to cancel culture. This was not debatable though. It was vile. BLM [Black Lives Matter].”
Hours earlier, the site had added Black Lives Matter to its charitable giving programme, writing: “JustForFans stands fully behind Black Lives Matter, our models of colour, and our entire user base, in wishing this cycle of violence against people of colour would end.”
And here we had a good day so I put my phone away to actually take a night off. And then I checked the phone to see all the messages. His account is gone. Policing is a slippery slope and we won’t be puppets to cancel culture. This was not debatable though. It was vile. BLM.— JustForFans (@JustForFansSite) June 2, 2020
Santoro’s OnlyFans page has also been taken down. According to The Sword, before its removal it included video descriptions fetishising Black men as well as references to “miss Tina”.
It isn’t clear whether OnlyFans or Santoro is responsible for the page’s removal. PinkNews has contacted OnlyFans for clarification.
Before his Twitter account was deleted, Santoro reportedly offered a pitiful explanation for his post.
He claimed a friend had been killed during looting in Philadelphia.
“I lashed out full of emotional stress,” he wrote, according to widely-shared screengrabs. “Those who know me know I am not racist. I am hurt by the loss of my friend.”
an Aussie friend just alerted me to this shocking Facebook post by some racist white Sydney gay called Billy Santoro and I got this hilarious screenshot just before he took his Twitter account offline – it reads like satire of every racist gay realising they fucked up ? pic.twitter.com/TbYZawbckq— Kieran Lowe (@lowe_kieran) June 2, 2020
Santoro’s husband, Gage Santoro, has also disappeared from social media.
Before his page went dark, he shared pictures of Billy Santoro in a hospital exam room.
He alleged that Santoro had attempted suicide over the backlash, however followers quickly pointed out several inconsistencies in the image, and accused it of being a “fake”.
Girl, did you see Billy Santoro is staging an alleged fake suicide attempt after being called out for his racism? ? pic.twitter.com/xh1VxrqbpR
— Itchy Boochie (@Dumpster_Queen1) June 2, 2020
That would be Gage Santoro in the hospital with his husband Billy Santoro. He claims he was so distraught with the racist shit he said, he tried to kill himself.
Most of us realize that if you make a suicide attempt, you're admitted. You don't lie down in an exam room.— Oh My Darling, Quarantine (@furioursus) June 3, 2020
PinkNews has contacted Santoro for comment.
