How the gay upl on ‘How to Get Away wh Murr’ and ‘Empire’ rtored my fah  love - Queerty

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• HOW THE GAY UPL ON ‘HOW TO GET AWAY WH MURR’ AND ‘EMPIRE’ RTORED MY FAH  LOVE
• THE REASON A HOW TO GET AWAY WH MURR GAY SEX SCENE WAS CENSORED
• RACY GAY SCEN ‘HOW TO GET AWAY WH MURR’ DRAW A FOLLOWG

HOW THE GAY UPL ON ‘HOW TO GET AWAY WH MURR’ AND ‘EMPIRE’ RTORED MY FAH  LOVE

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Conner and Oliver aren’t HTGAWM’s only so-happy-together gay duo. The former’s sometim-tranged father, who me out as gay later life, paid for his son’s nuptials and brought his partner as his date.

THE REASON A HOW TO GET AWAY WH MURR GAY SEX SCENE WAS CENSORED

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RACY GAY SCEN ‘HOW TO GET AWAY WH MURR’ DRAW A FOLLOWG

12, 2014John Grwiler was seated on a Chterfield sofa the back lounge area of the Atlas Social Club, a Hell’s Kchen gay bar, on a Thursday night a uple of weeks ago, watchg an episo of the new ABC seri “How to Get Away Wh Murr. ” In particular, he was wanted to see what Connor Walsh, a young gay law stunt played by Jack Falahee, might be up to next, sce his character’s aggrsive sexualy (and the surprisgly explic sex scen for work TV) has been a major plot one early episo, Connor sc an I. “Usually gay characters on televisn are somewhat ntered.

”) That portrayal of a gay character who is open and unapologetic about his sex life was apparently important to the creator of the show, Peter Nowalk. “I knew I wanted to ph the envelope, pecially wh the gay sex, ” Mr. “And to me, wrg the gay characterizatn and wrg some real gay sex to a work show is to right the wrong of all of the straight sex that you see on TV.

Falahee is straight real life and that he would have preferred to see a gay actor the role.