Black gay love is revolutnary.
Contents:
- 14 MOST MEMORABLE GAY CHARACTERS PLAYED BY NON-GAY ACTORS
- BLACK ACTORS WHO PLAYED GAY MALE CHARACTERS
14 MOST MEMORABLE GAY CHARACTERS PLAYED BY NON-GAY ACTORS
Taye Diggs is makg his theater eback, playg a gay character the h Broadway mil, Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Diggs jos a select list of Black actors who have played gay characters on the big and small screen. Flip through for some of our favore gay and lbian portrayals on TV and film. * gay black male characters *
Taye Diggs is makg his theater eback, playg a gay character the h Broadway mil, Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Diggs jos a select list of Black actors who have played gay characters on the big and small screen. Flip through for some of our favore gay and lbian portrayals on TV and film.
Begng July 22, Diggs will play Hedwig, a gay man who unrgo a sex reassignment surgery orr to marry his boyiend. Makg her long-overdue return to the small screen, Phylicia Rashad has land a starrg role on the new Ava DuVeryay-directed CBS drama For Jtice which she will portray Gea Howe, a gay woman workg the Department of Jtice’s Civil Rights Divisn who mt learn to navigate both the racism and homophobia that she mt face the workplace. Durg his “Frh Prce” days, Will Smh played Pl, based on the real-life openly gay n artist David Hampton who smmed New Yorkers by posg as the son of Sidney Poier.
The sk received some backlash for the pair’s stereotypil portrayal of gay men. Thgs take a wrong turn when Noxeema and her drag queen iends wd up strand a small, racist and homophobic town.
BLACK ACTORS WHO PLAYED GAY MALE CHARACTERS
Ellis plays Lafayette, a chef, medium and flamboyant gay man. When Le Grim, who played Lafayette’s lover, qu the show (reportedly bee he was unfortable playg a gay character), Ellis had a few words for the actor. “You qu your job bee you don’t want to play a gay part?
Playg one of the most plex characters on The Wire, Williams portrays Omar Devon Ltle, a gay crimal whose moral pass is somewhat straighter than his fellow characters.
His homosexualy—and boyiends—were never ignored throughout the urse of the show. Jackson’s character, Alpa Cho, a womanizg rapper, almost immediately, but isn’t long before we fd out that he is a closeted gay man love wh someone named Lance. In January, Kev Hart revealed that he was offered the role, but he didn’t feel fortable playg a gay character.