Contents:
- ‘EMPIRE’ REP: LUC LOS THE EMPIRE, BUT JAMAL’S STILL GAY
- 'EMPIRE' STAR JSIE SMOLLET NFIRMS HE'S GAY
- ‘EMPIRE’ STAR JSIE SMOLLETT OUT AS GAY, STILL DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE
- ‘EMPIRE’ ACTOR JSIE SMOLLETT REVEALS HE’S GAY ON ‘ELLEN’: ‘THERE IS NO CLOSET’
- EMPIRE 'S GAY SON IS THE SHOW'S GREATT ASSET
‘EMPIRE’ REP: LUC LOS THE EMPIRE, BUT JAMAL’S STILL GAY
News flash: Empire's Jamal (Jsie Smollett) is gay.
'EMPIRE' STAR JSIE SMOLLET NFIRMS HE'S GAY
But Empire never lets viewers fet that Jamal is gay, bee Jamal has que the active romantic Luc' Amnia Is Jt What the Show NeedJamal, and his thrivg sex life, is propaganda.
Empire -creator Lee Daniels has talked at length about Jamal beg a way to appease what he lled homophobic black dienc, and worked. Jamal tried to nvce Ryan to hi his sexualy om Luc too, leadg to a nversatn about growg up gay wh an Ain-Amerin father and livg the tth, yada yada yadda. On the one hand, the myth of the sneaky guy sleepg wh men but nyg to everyone backs the stctive msage that gay/bisexual people are untstworthy.
‘EMPIRE’ STAR JSIE SMOLLETT OUT AS GAY, STILL DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE
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.
‘EMPIRE’ ACTOR JSIE SMOLLETT REVEALS HE’S GAY ON ‘ELLEN’: ‘THERE IS NO CLOSET’
One of Empire’s most proment storyl, and most atttg to s ‘pave the way’ stat, revolv around Jamal Lyon — played by openly gay Jsie Smollett. As a young boy he steps to a room wearg heels and a headsrf to naively show off to his parents; Luc rponds homophobic slurs and stuffs his son a trash n while a distrsed Cookie tri to tervene. Oftentim, a lot of the people are homophobic, I feel.
In the hip hop muny pecially, save for succs stori like Frank Ocean’s, homosexualy isn’t known to sell hip hop rerds. Here’s to a black gay man playg a lead on FOX’s most-watched show years. On Fox’s smash mil drama “Empire, ” Jsie Smollett plays Jamal Lyons, a gay R&B sger who has stggled all his life wh his homophobic father.
Y, he nfirmed, he’s gay — but he still don’t want to talk about his personal way all me out was que unual, though. Pl, their marriage at the end of Season 5 broke ground as primetime's first gay black weddg. “Never Doubt I Love” foced on the weddg of Jamal and Kai, and even wh the progrs ma pop culture wh LGBTQ characters, ’s still momento to see two gay black men married on work televisn.
EMPIRE 'S GAY SON IS THE SHOW'S GREATT ASSET
Smollett and Jamal have always been at the heart of the seri, wh -creator Lee Daniels pullg om his own childhood experienc for the gay middle son of the Lyon mic dynasty.