Contents:
- 'EMPIRE' STAR JSIE SMOLLET NFIRMS HE'S GAY
- ‘EMPIRE’ ACTOR JSIE SMOLLETT REVEALS HE’S GAY ON ‘ELLEN’: ‘THERE IS NO CLOSET’
- MALIK YOBA NI OUTG 'EMPIRE' -STAR AS GAY
'EMPIRE' STAR JSIE SMOLLET NFIRMS HE'S GAY
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.
‘EMPIRE’ ACTOR JSIE SMOLLETT REVEALS HE’S GAY ON ‘ELLEN’: ‘THERE IS NO CLOSET’
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.
MALIK YOBA NI OUTG 'EMPIRE' -STAR AS GAY
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.