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ON GAY ISSU, BROOKLYN NE-NE SH
‘Let’s troduce a gay character and quickly kill them off, ’ so you have the ri of the plexy of this amazg character, but also [you do] not necsarily al wh them over the urse of our entire show. Holt embodi the personaly of probably many people our liv, whether be our high school prcipal, the neighbor next door or maybe even our own also holds another important role reprentg a different and more universal image of a gay man the 21st century, pared to the more stereo-typilly st and reprented versns TV shows.
Take shows such as Glee or even Netflix’s origal seri Champns and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, or movi like Mean Girls where eher the ma or supportg gay character(s) are often prented as overly feme and dramatic wh a bright and sometim over the top wardrobe. While there are many gay men that are very much like this stereotypil reprentatn, Holt shows that gay men don’t have to prent themselv this way. This aspect of Holt is pecially spirg sce you fd out that he me out as gay the 1980’s, a time that is known for many people as still beg very homophobic.
Holt often stat that he fought and worked long and hard to be his the posn of Capta, and that while was not always easy for him be an openly gay as well as a black officer startg the 1980’s, he would not tra the experience for also fd out that is bee of the stggl Holt faced that his hband Kev has a hard time wh viewg ps a good light let alone likg them. Some of the great non stereotypil thgs that Brooklyn Ne-Ne do so well is, tak a character like Holt, as stated before and separat him om the tradnal over the top gay man persona. Holt then go on to expla that he unrstands what Terry is gog through sce he himself faced his share of unfair hardships gog through the ranks of the police force startg the 1980’s by beg not only black but then beg openly gay the 1980’s.