Fox's new hip-hop seri tak a stand by troducg a gay character wh a notorly homophobic genre
Contents:
- EMPIRE'S GAY SON IS THE SHOW'S GREATT ASSET
- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
EMPIRE'S GAY SON IS THE SHOW'S GREATT ASSET
Rather than jt flailg agast his father's homophobia and retreatg to the fort of his keyboard, Jamal summoned his anger to a missn statement: He pledged to take over his father's pany. First, and I fear we've unrsold this our last two reps, how spectacular is that a work TV show picts not only a gay man of lor, but a gay man of lor the hetero-domated world of hip-hop?
Lee Daniels and his team may have unrled Luc's homophobia too hard so far, havg him nsistently refer to Jamal as female and sist homosexualy is a choice egregly bluntly, but 's probably (and sadly) realistic—and mak Jamal's assertn that he is a gay man, emphasis on both of those scriptors, all the more valuable.
Yep, he’s gay. In the prev episo of the Fox drama, a soulful kiss between the characters had many the gay muny a state of social-media outrage, what wh Jamal and Smollett beg LGBT idols and all. Some argued that Jamal gog bi rerc the homophobic notn that a gay guy n be straightened out by the right girl.
CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
But Smollett and his Empire boss Lee Daniels—both openly gay—do not see this plot twist as a polil misfire. This is a topic that needs to be discsed, not jt on Empire but also wh the gay muny and pecially wh the Ain-Amerin muny.
“Jsie and I both share the same feelg that, y, even though we are gay, we’re sexual human begs, ” says Daniels. Skye knows Jamal is gay but, that moment of timacy and nnectn, they give to each other.