Former MLB umpire Dale Stt, an excerpt om his new book, reunts how he me out as gay baseball first and then the world.
Contents:
- ‘EMPIRE’ ACTOR JSIE SMOLLETT REVEALS HE’S GAY ON ‘ELLEN’: ‘THERE IS NO CLOSET’
- 'EMPIRE' STAR JSIE SMOLLET NFIRMS HE'S GAY
- EMPIRE'S GAY SON IS THE SHOW'S GREATT ASSET
- WHY GAY GUYS LOVE THE '300' MOVI
- ‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT
- JSIE SMOLLETT TRIAL: 'EMPIRE' ACTOR FOUND GUILTY OF STAGG RACIST, ANTI-GAY ATTACK
‘EMPIRE’ ACTOR JSIE SMOLLETT REVEALS HE’S GAY ON ‘ELLEN’: ‘THERE IS NO CLOSET’
"The 31-year-old "Empire" star me out on "The Ellen DeGener Show" after his character om the h Fox seri revealed he's gay. "WITH A JUICY BLEND OF MUSIC, DRAMA AND OUTRAGEOUSNESS, 'EMPIRE' HAS BECOME THE BREAKOUT HIT OF 2015Jsie Smollett discs his role on ‘Empire’ and how he had to dn seven tim before landg the role of Jamal Lyon, who me out as gay a recent episo.
Smollett also revealed he's gay real life. "Followg the episo when his character me out, Smollett received hate onle, but didn't ter him om movg forward wh the storyle or revealg he's also gay real life.
'EMPIRE' STAR JSIE SMOLLET NFIRMS HE'S GAY
The actor Jsie Smollett claimed he was attacked and beaten by two masked men shoutg racist and homophobic slurs bee he was “dissatisfied wh his salary” on the TV show Empire, Chigo police have said. He said the actor also sent a racist and homophobic threateng letter to himself at the Fox stud lot Chigo, where Empire is actor, who is gay, hand himself to police on Thursday morng after he was charged wh felony disorrly nduct on Wednday for makg a false police report. ”Smollett, who plays a gay character the h Fox show, had said he was attacked as he was walkg home at 2am om a downtown Subway sandwich shop.
EMPIRE'S GAY SON IS THE SHOW'S GREATT ASSET
Actor and sger Jsie Smollett is one of the breakout stars of Fox's h drama Empire, and while much of the buzz surroundg him has foced on his talents, there's also been plenty said about his the show, he plays Jamal Lyon, a gay sger and the middle son of Luc (Terrence Howard) and Cookie (Taraji P.
Henson) battlg his father's real life, Smollett's sexualy has been a topic of nversatn, and now he's settg the rerd an terview wh Ellen DeGener nducted backstage at Ellen, he nfirmed that he is gay and explaed why he's never felt the need to discs his personal life. "Until his nversatn wh DeGener, Smollett nsistently refed to discs his sexualy terviews, tellg Sway on his rad show a few weeks ago that fans shouldn't assume that he's gay. Rather than jt flailg agast his father's homophobia and retreatg to the fort of his keyboard, Jamal summoned his anger to a missn statement: He pledged to take over his father's pany.
First, and I fear we've unrsold this our last two reps, how spectacular is that a work TV show picts not only a gay man of lor, but a gay man of lor the hetero-domated world of hip-hop?
WHY GAY GUYS LOVE THE '300' MOVI
Lee Daniels and his team may have unrled Luc's homophobia too hard so far, havg him nsistently refer to Jamal as female and sist homosexualy is a choice egregly bluntly, but 's probably (and sadly) realistic—and mak Jamal's assertn that he is a gay man, emphasis on both of those scriptors, all the more valuable.
‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT
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JSIE SMOLLETT TRIAL: 'EMPIRE' ACTOR FOUND GUILTY OF STAGG RACIST, ANTI-GAY ATTACK
"At Sparta, for example, the separatn of the sex at an early age, together wh attus peculiar to other Greeks on the role of women, rulted overtly homosexual relatnships centerg on life the barracks, " an Amerin ary historian and scholar wrote his book The Wtern Way of War. Stt me out as gay 2014. The first time any of my lleagu said anythg to me about beg gay was durg sprg trag ’98 or ’99.