Entertament Tans Tyler Perry and Oprah Wey were once tighter than a pair of panty hose 2 siz small. But the media moguls recently parted ways over creative and profsnal differenc. Rumor has that Oprah grew tired of the gay directn that Perry was takg all of his shows . Acrdg to the Daily
Contents:
- OWN NETWORK SPARKS NATNAL NVERSATN ON CLOSETED GAY MISTERS
- TYLER PERRY AND OPRAH WEY FELL OUT OVER HIS GAY-THEMED SHOWS AND TYLER TAKG CRED FOR TURNG OWN AROUND
OWN NETWORK SPARKS NATNAL NVERSATN ON CLOSETED GAY MISTERS
Vanzant, a life ach, Yoba prits and thor tackled one of the greatt taboos the black muny and tradnal black church: homosexualy. She did so by workg wh two closeted gay misters, Rev. Terry and Brown have never met, but their experienc as fah lears who also happen to be gay and the reactn om those around them are strikgly siar.
While much of the world is makg progrs on gay rights, the church ntu to be a source of pa and ternal nflict for those who intify as gay. Terry ed the show’s platform to e out to his fay as a “black gay man who misters” and spoke to Geia Voice about life after receivg natnal attentn. “She acced me of beg gay one day via text, ” he says.
A product of the Ain Methodist Epispal Church, Terry, who now misters through the Uned Church of Christ (UCC), says he received God’s llg to mistry at the age of 19 and battled ternally wh the homophobic msag he received om the church and what he knew to be te about himself, often qutng whether or not God tly loved him. An openly gay mister and founr of The Outlet Church Valdosta, Brown has first-hand experience wh “church hurt” and the expectatns for gay clergy to assume a heterosexual inty at the expense of their own tth. ” The Outlet Church is an clive mistry that wel people om all walks of life, and Brown adms that many gay men sought refuge at his church, which ially ma the formerly closeted mister unfortable.
TYLER PERRY AND OPRAH WEY FELL OUT OVER HIS GAY-THEMED SHOWS AND TYLER TAKG CRED FOR TURNG OWN AROUND
“I uld not shake the fear every time a gay man would e to the church. “And I didn’t want the stigma of beg the gay church. All you need is a gay mor and you n sabotage someone’s mistry.