Tom Payne's good-natured badass is the show's third gay ma character.
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- J IS GAY ON 'THE WALKG DEAD.' HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS.
- 'THE WALKG DEAD' JT CONFIRMED THAT J IS GAY
- 'THE WALKG DEAD' JT CONFIRMED THAT J IS GAY
- IS THE WALKG DEAD'S J GAY? HERE'S WHAT THOMAS PAYNE SAYS
- 'THE WALKG DEAD' FALLY CONFIRMED J’S SEXUALYTV J AND COMICS J ARE ONE AND THE {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY STACEY GRANTMARCH 20, 2017/11:39 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}GENE PAGE/AMCTOM PAYNE AS PL 'J' ROVIA, LREN COHAN AS MAGGIE GREENE - THE WALKG DEAD _ SEASON 7, EPISO 13 - PHOTO CRED: GENE PAGE/AMCBY STACEY GRANTMARCH 20, 2017 / 11:39 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"'THE WALKG DEAD' FALLY CONFIRMED J’S SEXUALY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-03-20T15:39:46.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-03-20T15:39:46.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"STACEY GRANT","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE NEWT WALKG DEAD EPISO FOCED ON GIRLS ATTACKG THE PATRIARCHY, BUT THERE WAS ONE IMPORTANT MOMENT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED BEFORE THE SH H THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FANS HAVE BEEN WAG FOR J (TOM PAYNE) TO REVEAL ON THE TV SERI THAT HIS SEXUALY IS THE SAME AS IS THE ICS, AND SUNDAY NIGHT (MARCH 19), WE FALLY GOT OUR NFIRMATN "THE OTHER SI." WHILE SPEAKG WH MAGGIE (LREN COHAN) AT THE HILLTOP BEFORE THE SAVRS MAKE ANOTHER UNEXPECTED HOE LL, J REVEALS HE'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DISCSG HIS NEW POST-APOLYPSE HOME, J STAT, "WHEN I WAS FIRST HERE, I WAS NEVER HERE. I ALWAYS FOUND HARD GETTG CLOSE TO ANYONE: NEIGHBORS, IENDS, BOYIENDS." MAGGIE TELLS HER IEND, "YOU SHOULD TRY SOME TIME, EVEN IF DON’T LAST."GENE PAGE/AMCTHE WALKG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE WALKG DEAD HAS A HISTORY OF LGBT CHARACTERS, LIKE TARA (ALANNA MASTERSON) AND UPLE AARON (ROSS MARQUAND) AND ERIC (JORDAN WOODS-ROBSON), BUT AS WH THEM, J IS "SO MUCH MORE THAN HIS SEXUALY, JT LIKE PEOPLE ARE REAL LIFE," WALKG DEAD BOSS ROBERT KIRKMAN TOLD ENTERTAMENT TONIGHT. LIKE PAYNE SAID EARLIER THIS YEAR, "LISTEN, 'S THE END OF THE WORLD. DO YOU REALLY THK WE'RE GOG TO BE WORRIED ABOUT THGS LIKE THAT?"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
- THE WALKG DEAD'S TOM PAYNE ON WHY NOBODY SHOULD CARE J IS GAY
- J OM ‘THE WALKG DEAD’ OUT AS GAY
J IS GAY ON 'THE WALKG DEAD.' HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS.
Tom Payne's good-natured badass is now the show's third gay ma character. * is jesus gay twd *
In The Walkg Dead ics, he's gay. He's a badass, and he happens to be gay. "While he isn't the first gay character to be featured on the AMC seri, J beg gay is still a big al for televisn 2017.
Progrs has been ma, but gay characters still acunt for a small percentage of total TV rol, acrdg to the latt numbers om GLAAD's 2016 "Where We Are on TV" report.
'THE WALKG DEAD' JT CONFIRMED THAT J IS GAY
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The "bury your gays" trope beme a hot topic last year after The 100 ntroversially killed off a character named Lexa, shortly after her relatnship wh another female character was nsummated.
The Walkg Dead has also stggled to portray s only current gay relatnship between Alexandrians Aaron and Eric. Payne said last year that he saw no reason why his on-screen J wouldn't be gay, as he is the ics, and tonight's episo "The Other Si, " he officially beme the show's third major gay character.
Her girliend Denise (Merrt Wever) was ntroversially killed off what beme part of a troublg TV trend last year; an unwele rurgence of the "Bury Your Gays" trope which me to a head wh a profoundly ntroversial storyle on The CW's The 100. But the fact that this is now a show wh three gay characters s ma st matters. Given his stat as a badass fan favore, his signifint role the ics and the bonds he's veloped wh several of the show's ma characters, the now-openly-gay J has the potential to bee genuely inic a way Aaron and Tara are not.
'THE WALKG DEAD' JT CONFIRMED THAT J IS GAY
Gay characters on televisn are no longer unmon, but gay male hero on actn-led genre shows are, and the fact that The Walkg Dead has an unually bipartisan fan base wh a strong Republin ntgent mak s sexual diversy all the more charged. "In my opn there should be more awome gay people fictn bee there are plenty of awome gay people real life, " Robert Kirkman, who created The Walkg Dead ics and is an EP on the show, said last year.
Her girliend Denise (Merrt Wever) was ntroversially killed off what beme part of a troublg TV trend last year; an unwele rurgence of the "Bury Your Gays" trope which me to a head wh a profoundly ntroversial storyle on The CW's The the fact that this is now a show wh three gay characters s ma st matters.
Openly gay, he still found difficulty relatnships wh boyiends.
IS THE WALKG DEAD'S J GAY? HERE'S WHAT THOMAS PAYNE SAYS
Tom Payne on J possibly beg gay on the show: "What I fd tertg om the ics is that 's not a big al. Robert Kirkman nfirmed Letterhacks #164 that J is ed gay on the show.
'THE WALKG DEAD' FALLY CONFIRMED J’S SEXUALYTV J AND COMICS J ARE ONE AND THE {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY STACEY GRANTMARCH 20, 2017/11:39 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}GENE PAGE/AMCTOM PAYNE AS PL 'J' ROVIA, LREN COHAN AS MAGGIE GREENE - THE WALKG DEAD _ SEASON 7, EPISO 13 - PHOTO CRED: GENE PAGE/AMCBY STACEY GRANTMARCH 20, 2017 / 11:39 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"'THE WALKG DEAD' FALLY CONFIRMED J’S SEXUALY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-03-20T15:39:46.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-03-20T15:39:46.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"STACEY GRANT","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE NEWT WALKG DEAD EPISO FOCED ON GIRLS ATTACKG THE PATRIARCHY, BUT THERE WAS ONE IMPORTANT MOMENT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED BEFORE THE SH H THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FANS HAVE BEEN WAG FOR J (TOM PAYNE) TO REVEAL ON THE TV SERI THAT HIS SEXUALY IS THE SAME AS IS THE ICS, AND SUNDAY NIGHT (MARCH 19), WE FALLY GOT OUR NFIRMATN "THE OTHER SI." WHILE SPEAKG WH MAGGIE (LREN COHAN) AT THE HILLTOP BEFORE THE SAVRS MAKE ANOTHER UNEXPECTED HOE LL, J REVEALS HE'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DISCSG HIS NEW POST-APOLYPSE HOME, J STAT, "WHEN I WAS FIRST HERE, I WAS NEVER HERE. I ALWAYS FOUND HARD GETTG CLOSE TO ANYONE: NEIGHBORS, IENDS, BOYIENDS." MAGGIE TELLS HER IEND, "YOU SHOULD TRY SOME TIME, EVEN IF DON’T LAST."GENE PAGE/AMCTHE WALKG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE WALKG DEAD HAS A HISTORY OF LGBT CHARACTERS, LIKE TARA (ALANNA MASTERSON) AND UPLE AARON (ROSS MARQUAND) AND ERIC (JORDAN WOODS-ROBSON), BUT AS WH THEM, J IS "SO MUCH MORE THAN HIS SEXUALY, JT LIKE PEOPLE ARE REAL LIFE," WALKG DEAD BOSS ROBERT KIRKMAN TOLD ENTERTAMENT TONIGHT. LIKE PAYNE SAID EARLIER THIS YEAR, "LISTEN, 'S THE END OF THE WORLD. DO YOU REALLY THK WE'RE GOG TO BE WORRIED ABOUT THGS LIKE THAT?"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
This mak him the sixth LGBT character alongsi Tara, Alisha, Aaron, Eric, and Denise beg the third known gay male. But bee we are all human, the nversatn has now turned to sexualy, and the Inter was recently taken by storm by ments the actor ma about J potentially beg gay. Perhaps thgs were taken slightly out of ntext, though, as Payne said this when asked about havg suated J' homosexualy:Yeah, he's...
THE WALKG DEAD'S TOM PAYNE ON WHY NOBODY SHOULD CARE J IS GAY
But sce any attempts to take him down and get rmatn would jt lead to him bamboozlg and pg, we'll have to look to the show and givg his answer to TMZ, Thomas Payne mentns that J is gay the source material, which is ed the se. Even though we know Daryl's not gay (at least officially), people still qutn , and the same will probably happen wh J if nothg five gets revealed soon. But yeah, if we're worryg about whose bed J' boots are gog unr, at least that means we're not worryg about him gettg killed soon, which n't be said about the rerd, here's how Thomas Payne feels about if the world is ready for gay J.
" While speakg wh Maggie (Lren Cohan) at the Hilltop before the Savrs make another unexpected hoe ll, J reveals he's gay. Yup, J (Tom Payne) is gay. " That's bee he didn't need to have one; fans who really know their Walkg Dead know that J -- real name Pl Rovia -- is gay the ic books.
J OM ‘THE WALKG DEAD’ OUT AS GAY
Hilltop Colony member J (Tom Payne) opened up that he was gay nversatn wh Maggie (Lren Cohan). In Robert Kirkman’s ic book seri J is nonilly gay. J is the sixth gay character on “The Walkg Dead.
” Tara (Alanna Masterson), Alisha (Juliana Harkavy), Aaron (Ross Marquand), Eric (Jordan Woods-Robson) and Denise (Mert Wever) are the show’s other gay characters. The Walkg Dead on social media is also a proud supporter, nouncg homophobic people.