Two “Saturday Night Live” cast members who made history when they were hired have announced their exits from the sketch comedy show. Punkie Johnson, who joined “SNL” as a featured player in 2020, was the first out Black queer woman on the show’s cast. Danitra Vance, a Black lesbian who was a cast member on “SNL” in the mid-1980s, was not out publicly when she was on the show. Molly Kearney was SNL’s first ever nonbinary cast member. They joined the sketch comedy show in 2022.

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