J is gay on 'The Walkg Dead.' Here’s why that matters.

Contents:

• 'THE WALKG DEAD' JT CONFIRMED THAT J IS GAY
• J IS GAY ON 'THE WALKG DEAD.' HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS.
• IS J GAY IN THE WALKG DEAD COMICS?

'THE WALKG DEAD' JT CONFIRMED THAT J IS GAY

He's gay?

I'm kd of glad that the show didn't pursue the whole "any two gay characters should end up together" vibe. I know everyone was so exced for the only two gay characters left to blossom to each other's arms and whatever, but if we're gog to add thgs like Beth's ath (which I'm still mad about) to make the show seem real, then I gus we gotta keep wh .

J IS GAY ON 'THE WALKG DEAD.' HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS.

I thk J was a passnate, super-telligent gay man who unrstood human problems. Try beg a gay woman the Middle East — you’re as good as ad. Still, if one nsirs the qutn prayerfully, and whout prejudice, J Christ's homosexualy seems que likely.

While some nuchs may have engaged heterosexual acts, and while one non-nonil source has J Christ kissg Mary Magdalene, the evince overall suggts that Elton John was right, and that J was a nice gay man. Payne said last year that he saw no reason why his on-screen J wouldn't be gay, as he is the ics, and tonight's episo "The Other Si, " he officially beme the show's third major gay character. Her girliend Denise (Merrt Wever) was ntroversially killed off what beme part of a troublg TV trend last year; an unwele rurgence of the "Bury Your Gays" trope which me to a head wh a profoundly ntroversial storyle on The CW's The 100.

But the fact that this is now a show wh three gay characters s ma st matters.

IS J GAY IN THE WALKG DEAD COMICS?

Given his stat as a badass fan favore, his signifint role the ics and the bonds he's veloped wh several of the show's ma characters, the now-openly-gay J has the potential to bee genuely inic a way Aaron and Tara are not. Gay characters on televisn are no longer unmon, but gay male hero on actn-led genre shows are, and the fact that The Walkg Dead has an unually bipartisan fan base wh a strong Republin ntgent mak s sexual diversy all the more charged.

"In my opn there should be more awome gay people fictn bee there are plenty of awome gay people real life, " Robert Kirkman, who created The Walkg Dead ics and is an EP on the show, said last year. In The Walkg Dead ics, he's gay.

He's a badass, and he happens to be gay. "While he isn't the first gay character to be featured on the AMC seri, J beg gay is still a big al for televisn 2017. Progrs has been ma, but gay characters still acunt for a small percentage of total TV rol, acrdg to the latt numbers om GLAAD's 2016 "Where We Are on TV" report.