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Contents:
- JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL
- COMEDIAN JERROD CARMICHAEL COM OUT AS GAY IN NEW HBO SPECIAL
- INTERSECTNALY POS ADDNAL HURDL FOR BLACK, GAY COMEDIANS
JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL
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“I remember Googlg gay ics and nothg g up, pecially gay Black ics, ” says Perks, whose blazgly funny stand-up work rang om sweet to goofy to rnchy. Havg a moment, the late ’90s and early ghts, meant that, sudnly, a gay performer or character would appear a space that had been prevly domated by straight people — say, at the center of a TV s like “Will & Grace” or a stand-up special, or as the voice of reason to the leadg lady a romantic edy like “My Bt Friend’s Weddg” — and everyone uld appld and say, “We solved ! ” It was a pop-cultural phenomenon that started to surface when Perks, who’s 31, and other gay edians of his generatn were middle school.
COMEDIAN JERROD CARMICHAEL COM OUT AS GAY IN NEW HBO SPECIAL
The LGBTQ muny now has a proud new reprentative on their si followg news that celebrated edian Jerrod Carmichael ed his new HBO special, 'Rothaniel,' to e out as a gay man. * black gay male comedians *
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INTERSECTNALY POS ADDNAL HURDL FOR BLACK, GAY COMEDIANS
(The podst format, which gay obssns n be discsed and nstcted at length, or which the hetero world n be filtered through gay sensibili, as is on Sam Taggart and Gee Civeris’s “StraightLab, ” has bee fertile turf for emergg edy stars.